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Parshas Emor

Sefiras Ha’Omer- Why We Count, What We Count 

Sefer HaChinuch: The Torah commands us to count the Omer so we can relive the Exodus from Mitzraim. Just as the Jews back then anxiously anticipated the great day when they were to receive the Torah, so too we count the days till Shavous, the Yom Tov that commemorates the giving of the Torah. To the Jews then, accepting the Torah on Har Sinai was even greater than their redemption from slavery. So we count each day to bring ourselves to that sense of great enthusiasm of. When will that day come?

The difficulty with this Sefer Hachinuch is the statement that to the Jews then “receiving of the Torah was even greater than being freed from slavery.” This seems difficult to understand when we envision what it was like to be a slave then in Mitzraim.

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