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GATEWAYS TO TORAT HAYIM

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Omer Sefirot

Better Living Through Counting | SECRETS of the Omer

  • Friedman, Rabbi Manis
  • "We start counting the Omer on the second night, because after having experienced a total cleansing of all ego, now we can start replacing our emotions, our character, one step at a time, but this time, without ego....
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Counting the omer

Sefirat HaOmer – A Unique Opportunity for Self-Refinement

  • Emor Project
  • The period of Sefirat HaOmer offers us a unique opportunity to work on improving our midot (character traits)....
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Sefirat Ha’Omer/Counting of the Omer

  • Emor Project
  • We are commanded to count seven weeks from the time that the omer, the new barley offering, was brought in the Beit HaMikdash....
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Sefirat Haomer written in hebrew in a wheat field

A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer: Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement

  • Jacobson, Rabbi Simon
  • "With the mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha'Omer, the Torah invites us on a journey into the human psyche, into the soul....
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A Passover Dictionary: What Do All These Strange Hebrew Terms Mean?

  • Strum, Rabbi Ori
  • "On the night before Passover (this year...on Thursday night, April 14th), the Jewish people gather in their homes at sundown and begin searching for any remaining chametz....
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A filled seder plate with shank bone, egg, parsley, charoset, and maror

Pesach Seder

  • Emor Project
  • We conduct the seder using a Haggadah, which means “telling.” The Haggadah facilitates the retelling of the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Also, it guides participants through the ritual-rich Seder meal, indicating when and how to perform each ritual....
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Sell Your Chametz

  • Torah.org
  • One of the prime elements of the Passover Holiday is the removal of leaven products, known as 'Chametz' from one's possession....
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The Spiritual Potential of Pesach

  • Emor Project
  • Pesach recalls historically the liberation from slavery in Egypt through a manifested intervention of HKBH....
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Stress-Free Pesach Cleaning Guide

  • Emor Project
  • Free "Stress-Free Pesach Cleaning Guide"...
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Post 3 – The Baal Shem Tov on Perpetual Creation

  • Shurpin, Yehuda
  • "...everything that happens in this world is due to hashgachah pratit, 'divine providence': not even a leaf falling is a result of mere happenstance....
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Post 2 – The Baal Shem Tov on Perpetual Creation

  • Shurpin, Yehuda
  • "The building blocks of all of creation, in all its variety, are the same Ten Utterances....
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Post 1 – The Baal Shem Tov on Perpetual Creation

  • Shurpin, Yehuda
  • "G?dly ‘speech’ is everlasting. This means that the Ten Utterances used to create the world continue to stand, constantly recreating the world......
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