The Kabbalah of Sefirat HaOmer
The Spiritual Understanding of Counting the Omer
The Kabbalah of Sefirat HaOmer: The Spiritual Understanding of Counting the Omer
We count 49 days from Passover to Shavuot, the day of the giving of the Torah. In the siddur (prayer book), it associates each day of counting to a different “sefirah” (kabbalistic attribute). How is all of this relevant to us now?
| See Also: | Count Today's Omer | |
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| Topics: | Counting of the Omer, Kabbalah | |
Rabbi Ruvi New is spiritual leader of Chabad of East Boca, and a popular lecturer on Kabbalah and it's contemporay applications. He is also editor of Inside Out magazine.
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Rafael
April 6, 2015
My innate good is in fact a revelation of God
These rules and regulations of organized religion makes goodness difficult and almost inaccessible for people . The convoluted multi layered double talking of the Talmud creates an aristocratic class trained in a revelation that probably has little to do with God. The Torahs misunderstanding and misinterpretation is a product of bad writing and bad instructions . God would not hand down riddles and metaphors like some sort of scrabble game . Was the Talmud a rewrite because God was incapable of writing ?The Bronze Age was the infancy of literature and this book reveals the styles of many ancient and creative scribes . You must update God and get him out of his Toga .
Rabbi New
Boca Raton
April 24, 2013
Siddur for siddur go to www.KehotOnline.com
Anonymous
Nashville, tn
April 22, 2013
Sided ur Hi can you send a link to this siddur for purchase? Thanks.
Anonymous
Arizona, USA
April 17, 2013
The Kabalah Of Sefirat HaOmer Thank you Rabbi New for such wonderful teaching. It was very enlightening. I hope to hear more of your teachings.
Re: My innate good is in fact a revelation of God It is not clear to me exactly what your criticism is, and how it relates to Rabbi New's lecture. In any case, most would agree that the Torah itself, the books of the Tanach (Jewish Bible) require further explanation. The people of Israel have always had explanations of what is found in our Torah, that were passed down through the generations, and these are reflected in the Talmud.