The Jewish Holiday of Shavuos - Spiritual Preparation
Passover programs seven weeks from the Jewish Holiday "Pesach" until the Jewish Holiday "Shavuos" are known as the long stretches of "Sefiras HaOmer" the counting of the Omer, for then we play out each night the Mitzvah of Sefiras HaOmer, counting up the days among Pesach and Shavuos. The possibility of the Mitzvah of Sefiras HaOmer is to set ourselves up for getting the Torah on Shavuos, like the seven weeks that the Jewish public filtered themselves and set themselves up for the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai after the Exodus from Egypt. The requests that we say when Sefiras HaOmer talk about self filtration that is truly expected to be happening during this time. I compose this article somewhat recently of the Sefirah, when we make the last arrangements for the Jewish Holiday of Shavuos. A Question From the Torah Portion "Yisro" The Torah lets us know that on Rosh Chodesh Sivan, (the principal day of the period of Sivan), the Jewish pub...
