Counting Up
If we view our fellow Jews as foreign to us... then we have destroyed the basis for Matan Torah
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If we view our fellow Jews as foreign to us... then we have destroyed the basis for Matan Torah
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Sal and Vinny, the barbers, have, uncharacteristically, been calling up the halacha hotlines across the country with
Transforming the stubbornly material into the stuff of the spiritual
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Three thousand four hundred years ago, in the year 1412 BCE, we received the Torah and its commandments at Sinai (the year 2,448 in the Hebrew calendar). Of all those many years, over just one hundred years, the mitzvah of counting the Omer has been radically altered — twice. This altering h...