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Apr 30, 2023
Day Twenty Five of the Omer
WHERE ARE WE HEADING? We have celebrated Pesach – the anniversary of the day we left Egypt. The date is known. 15th. of Nissan. But when...
Apr 29, 2023
Day Twenty Four of the Omer
We are in the middle of counting the Omer, the 49-day cycle of days, seven weeks, which take us from Pesach to Shavuot. It is an...
Apr 28, 2023
Day Twenty Three of the Omer
עבדי הזמן עבדי עבדים הם. עבד ה׳ הוא לבד חופשי. Slaves of time are slaves of slaves. Only the servant of God is free. (Yehuda Halevi) Most...
Apr 27, 2023
Day 22 of the Omer
Why do we count the Omer? There are so many possible reasons to give, but one is that we are structuring the time between Pesach and...
Apr 26, 2023
Day Twenty One of the Omer
CHAMETZ UMATZAH? The first of the Four Questions – remember them? - points out that what is special about Pesach is NOT that we eat...
Apr 25, 2023
Day Twenty of the Omer
Pesach is now behind us, and the fifty days between that Festival and Shavuot mark an extraordinary number of commemorations that range...
Apr 24, 2023
Day Nineteen of the Omer
In the Omer days, we embark on a period of introspection and reflection. During these forty-nine days, we are called to reflect on our...
Apr 23, 2023
Day Eighteen of the Omer
While waiting for an expected event, we sometimes would like time to fly faster, to disappear, to stop separating us from the day and...
Apr 22, 2023
Day Seventeen of the Omer
As we count each evening from Pesach to Shavuot – forty-nine days or a week of weeks (hence the name Shavuot or Weeks) – we say a...
Apr 21, 2023
Day 16 of the Omer
For Rosh Hodesh Iyar (Friday, April 21, 2023) Traditionally the Omer period has been perceived as a time of mourning, interrupted only by...
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