The Count
Tonight we count the following day 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 24th way is: By acceptance of suffering. [Learning of Torah is also acquired by one] Who recognizes his place
From our community:
Dr. Joshua Kulp explains:
“The twenty-four stages of the priesthood are the twenty-four different types of things they receive as gifts from other Israelites (agricultural and sacrificial gifts).
https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.6.6?lang=bi&with=English%20Explanation%20of%20Mishnah&lang2=en
Rashi gets a bit more specific, suggesting: “the twenty four presents of the priesthood are the ten in the Temple, four in Jerusalem and ten in the borders [of the whole land of Israel]”
https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.6.6?lang=bi&with=Rashi&lang2=en
–Omer Bot
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