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S2 Ep 25 - Emor: Is the Omer Still Important?

• Aleph Beta • Season 2 • Episode 25

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During the time between Passover and Shavuot, we “count the Omer,” marking the number of days since the Omer offering would have been brought. Why is this Omer offering so important that we have to mention it 49 consecutive nights, and how is it still relevant if we haven’t even had the Temple for 2000 years? 

Join Rabbi Fohrman and Rivky Stern as they explore a tantalizing intertextual triangle which reveals just how significant the Omer is to our contemporary lives.

Check out Rabbi Fohrman’s course “Why do we celebrate Shavuot” to trace the thread of these ideas even further back, to even before the original Passover. 

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