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R. Elazar Symon on the Omer: Counting Old and New

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Sinopsis

According to a midrashic tradition, the counting of the Omer (that may have seemed to be nothing but a calendrical counting of the days from Pesah to Shavuot) expresses the anticipation of the Israelites for the giving of the Torah.  The biblical commandment, however, appears in an agricultural context.