- Shabbat and Holidays
- Sfirat Ha'omer Customs
Why do we count Sefirat Haomer?
Various Rabbis
Iyyar 15, 5768
Question
Why do we specifically count the 49 days leading up to Shavuot? We do not find this concept by any other chagim in the Torah. Additonally, if individuals already gave their omer offering the day after the first day of Pesach, what does it mean that we count the omer? What are we counting exactly?
Answer
The Midrash writes that when someone knows that a special treat is coming he fills with expectation and couts the days till the treat. That is what we do during the Omer - we count the days up to Matan Torah the recieving of the greatest of gifts - the Torah.
Rabbi Ro'i Margalit
Omer Days I can shave/cut hair
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 2, 5774
Buying a House During Sefirat HaOmer
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 9, 5779
Music during the Sefira
Rabbi Eliezer S. Weisz | 16 Iyyar 5763
Shaving after Lag Ba’omer
Various Rabbis | Iyyar 23, 5768
Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.
Finding a Rav
4 Cheshvan 5763
Length of Sleeves
15 Kislev 5763
Yam Hamelach
28 Kislev 5763
A Convert Who Does Not Keep Shabbat
23 Cheshvan 5763
Popcorn at the cinema
Rabbi David Sperling | Nisan 8, 5773
Popcorn at the cinema
Rabbi David Sperling | Nisan 8, 5773
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770
Temporary Henna Tattoos
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Sivan 8, 5770
Tying knots on Shabbos
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Iyyar 24, 5783
touching of spouse in aninus and aveilus
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Sivan 5, 5783
money issues
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Iyyar 24, 5783
