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Sifrei on DeuteronomySifrei Devarim 136

Sifrei on Deuteronomy

Sifrei Devarim 136

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Devarim 16:9) "Seven weeks shall you count for yourself": I might think that beth-din (is being exhorted to do the counting); it is, therefore, written (Vayikra 22:15) "And you shall count for yourselves" — each individual (is exhorted to do the counting).

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"From the beginning of the sickle": (The intent is) when the sickle begins, and that its harvesting be only with the sickle.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"in the standing corn": that all be standing (i.e., that nothing has yet been harvested); that it be the first of all that is harvested.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

I might think that he could harvest and bring (the omer), and (count) whenever he wished; it is, therefore, written (Vayikra, Ibid.) "And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow of the Sabbath" (i.e., from the morrow of the first day of Pesach).

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English · Shraga Silverstein

I might think that he could count and bring (the omer), and harvest whenever he wished; it is, therefore, written "when the sickle begins (to harvest) the standing corn." I might think that he could harvest at night and count at night and bring (the omer) at night; it is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "from the day that you bring (the omer)."

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English · Shraga Silverstein

I might think that he could harvest in the daytime and count in the daytime and bring (the omer) in the daytime; it is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "Seven complete Sabbaths shall they be," (the counting until Shavuoth not being complete if the first day is counted in the daytime.) When are they complete? When you begin in the evening.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

I might think that he could harvest at night and count at night and bring (the omer) at night; it is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "from the day that you bring (the omer)."

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English · Shraga Silverstein

What, then, is the procedure? Harvesting, counting at night, and bringing (the omer) in the daytime.

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