Discounting the Omer I don’t count the Omer. It is an irrelevant Mitzvah for me. It is not the only mitzvah that I do not keep. There...

We are in the process of counting the Omer – the period between Pesach and Shavuot which is – apart from the thirty third day – one of...

From the Illuminated Haggadah, edited with commentary by Rabbi Michael Shire.

COUNTING THE OMER After 50 years of preaching Pesach sermons I thought I had covered all possible themes at least once unless I...

One of my favourite pieces in the Mishnah comes in the Tractate Bikkurim, the ''First Fruits'', which relates to the ringing of the...