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Omer: Seven Themes for the Seven Weeks of Seven Days

This Jewish Life - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

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The Difference Between Barley and Wheat

The tora frames the days of the omar, counting of the omer as the bridge. One of them is a barley meal offering that's brougt the second day of pesach. The other one is a wheat loave offering. Tom tells us that in egypt, we were like an animal. We were living as bodies. Our soul, which is innately subjected to god as dormant it wasn't operating within us,. That's why we couldn't have had prophecy. And over the course of these days, we are unearthing our latent, holy, angelic soul.

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