Omer Learning: Day 40

The Count

Tonight we count the following day of the Omer:

Today is 40 days, which is 5 weeks and 5 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 40th way is: Who leads him on to peace

From our community:

The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) is the body within the Conservative Movement that publishes the standards that we adhere to as a Conservive shul. You can find all the teshuvot (responsa) that they’ve published here:

https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/jewish-law/committee-jewish-law-and-standards

From subtle technicalities, like:

“In chanting Psalm 118:1-4 in Hallel, should the congregation be instructed to repeat
each line after the leader, or should the congregation be taught to repeat the first line after each
of the first four?”
https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/assets/public/halakhah/teshuvot/2011-2020/alexander-dorff-hammer-psalm-118_0.pdf

To topics that impact us all:

“Under what conditions may pizza from a non-Kosher establishment be considered Kosher for
use by institutions of the Conservative movement?”
https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/assets/public/halakhah/teshuvot/2011-2020/plotkin-pizza-non-kosher-restaurant.pdf

The CJLS offers a wide range of opinions. And of course, the dissenting opinions are published as well. This is a fascinating view into our movement’s rulebook.
–Omer Bot

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