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Re: New quotes for Tue Apr 9
jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 9 14:31:47 1991
Starting the second night of Passover, forty-nine days are counted,
and the fiftieth day is the holiday of Shavuot, when the Torah was
given to the Jews at Sinai.
"Omer" literally is a measure, usually used to measure grain, because
Shavuot is also a harvest festival during which a measure of the first
fruits of the harvest were offered at the Temple.
Jews are commanded to count the forty-nine days of the Omer. There is
a blessing said every day before counting (the counting has to be done
at night, and has to be done standing up; if you do it during the day,
you don't say the blessing). If you forget to count for a whole day,
then you can't say the blessing for the rest of the counting that
year. I made it until the ninth day without forgetting. I've never
made it all the way :-).
