Forty Ninth Day of the Omer
Our calendar is arranged so that we almost always read the sidra Bemidbar on the shabbat before Shavuot. The wilderness – Bemidbar – is...
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- May 23
Forty Eighth Day of the Omer
APPROACHING SINAI Soon it will be time to get ready. After several weeks of initial, rather aimless wandering after Pesach it will be...
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- May 22
Forty Seventh Day of the Omer
To the faithful, Torah offers the word of God which persists for all ages… Each generation is heard in the Torah’s words, its own wishes...
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- May 21
Forty sixth day of the Omer
We are coming to the end days of the Omer – the days between Pesach and Shavuot – which give a prominence to the link between Freedom...
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- May 20
Forty Fifth Day of the Omer
“God reveals himself not only in the majesty, beauty and orderliness of nature, but also in the vision and moral striving of the human...
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- May 19
Forty Fourth Day of the Omer
The omer is about counting days towards a goal in the future. Too much awareness of each day one lives can overshadow the goal. Sometimes...
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- May 18
Forty Third Day of the Omer
The mountains get steeper as one gets older, I find. It is something to do with quantum relativity whereby distances expand and take...
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- May 17
Forty Second Day of the Omer
“Streshin, a typical shtetl in Belarus, supported at least 15 charitable organisations. There was a Hevrei K’disha (burial society). The...
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- May 16
Forty First Day of the Omer
In the ANU, the new Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, there is a work of art at the entrance to the exhibition that triggers many...
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- May 15
Fortieth Day of the Omer
According to one ancient rabbinic homiletic commentary the world did not spring forth all at once from God’s omnipresent will, but twenty...
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