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Jewish Holidays

Shavuos and Freedom (HaRav Yitzchak Breitowitz)

Rabbi Breitowitz – Shares how Pesach to Shavuot (through the process of the Omer) is not freedom from something (to do whatever we want) but freedom to something (the freedom to choose). This is analagous to the barley offering on the first day of the Omer (which is animal food) to the wheat offering on Shavuot (which is human good). Do we want to be freedom to be whatever we want (to be an animal) or freedom to serve (to be a human)? The process of refinement (the counting of the Omer for 49 days) helps us make that journey from animal to human culminating with the giving on the Torah on Shavuot (the ultimate human endeavor as a Jew).

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Mitzvot

KLM: A Few More Seconds For Seferot HaOmer Changes Everything with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit – Shares the five mitzvot we can do within the main mitzvah of counting the omer. Referencing the U.S. company 3M (Mikdash, Manna, Ma’amad Har Sinai) to help us remember the middle three mitzvot along with counting and connection to Hashem to round out the five. This five for the price of one every day of the Omer count.

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The counting of the Omer – What is the Kabbalah behind it? Part 1 – Rabbi Alon Anava

Rabbi Alon Anava – Shares some deep insights about the period between Pesach and Shavuot which is called counting the Omer.

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Double Feature 1

The Period of the Omer and Love Your Neighbor as Yourself – Rabbi Breitowitz shares how the current Omer counting period has both a positive and negative perspective. The positive is the joyous period between leaving slavery (Pesach) and receiving the Torah (Shavuot). The negative is 24,000 students of the great sage, Rabbi Akiva, dies during this period of time – which makes the Omer a time of mourning. The ultimate goal of this mourning is to rectify the character trait of not giving kavod to others (“love your neighbor as yourself”). Watch the video to get filled in on all the details in between.

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KLM Making the Omer Count

Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit – Shares great insight on how to recite the Omer with intention, meaning, and purpose this year.

Personal Thoughts – I counted tonight with Rabbi Wegbreit’s video in mind and it felt less robotic and more meaningful (even though I probably missed all the bases the Rabbi covered but I’ll keep at it). Try it yourself!

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Jewish Holidays

Freedom versus Obligation – Pesach and Shavuot (!Short Clip!)

Freedom versus Obligation – Pesach and Shavuot (!Short Clip!)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxH0sG_mnkE?start=2940&autoplay=1

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: God Desires to Call You by Your Name
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