The Count
Tonight we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 17 days, which is 2 weeks and 3 days of the Omer
See: The blessings and procedure for counting the Omer.
Today’s Learning
Pirkei Avot 6:6 tells us: Greater is learning Torah than the priesthood and than royalty, for royalty is acquired by thirty stages, and the priesthood by twenty-four, but the Torah by forty-eight things.
The 17th way is: By a minimum of chatter
From our community:
There are 3 websites I would suggest
Yiddish Book Center – https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
New York Jewish Week- https://www.jta.org/newyork
JTA Daily Briefing- https://www.jta.org/signup
–Steve Zimmet
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