- 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
Wedding before Shavou’ot
Various Rabbis | 4 Sivan 5766
Swimming during the Omer
Various Rabbis | Iyyar 13, 5768
Sefirah
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Adar II 19, 5782
S’fira and shaving
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | Sivan 1, 5769
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.
Non-Kosher wine for cooking
7 Kislev 5763
Kissing a Mezuzah or Sefer
3 Tishrei 5763
Length of Sleeves
15 Kislev 5763
Yam Hamelach
28 Kislev 5763
Buying new things during the Omer
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5775
Carrying firearms on Shabbat
Rabbi David Samson | 18 Elul 5762
Shaitels for non-married women
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 29, 5779
Omer Days I can shave/cut hair
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 2, 5774
a mishna
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 16, 5782
halachas
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 21, 5782
Noahides
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Iyyar 25, 5782
