Sefirat HaOmer 162 articles

ויבאו בני ישראל בתוך הים ביבשה והמים להם חומה מימינם ומשמאלם” – שמות יד:כב” ובני ישראל הלכו ביבשה בתוך הים והמים להם חמה מימינם ומשמאלם” – שמות יד:כט” Why does the...

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The Machzor Vitri holds that if you didn’t make a bracha on Sefirat HaOmer you have to re-count. Why is the bracha on Sefirah part of the mitzvah unlike other mitzvot?...

Sefirah is unique in that the entire mitzvah is a preparation. What are we preparing for – there are no mitzvot unique to Shavuot! If ולקחתי אתכם לי לעם was fulfilled when...

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How does learning the Zohar cause us to merit the final redemption? Why does the gemara say the world was desolate after Rebbi Akiva’s students died – they weren’t the only...

The tradition of kabbalah from the Arizal, his disciple Rav Chaim Vital, and how kabbalah was handed down through the generations via Rav Yisroel Saruk and the Rama MiPano. Download the...

Q. Is the self-improvement thing during sefirah kind of made up? What do all the middos mean or where do they come from? A. Sefirah is an unusual… I was going to...

Physicists teach us that the movement of time is constant through space.  It moves on and on with the precision and consistency of the finest timepiece.  Tick, tick, tick.  At times...