Between Passover and Shavuot

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Between Passover and Shavuot

Between Passover and Shavuot

The fifty days between the festival of Passover and the festival of Shavuot; a period during which the Counting of the Omer is observed.

(“For the conductor, on the flutes — Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: ‘Nehilot’ is an acronym: Heh — the five books of the Torah; Nun — fifty days between Passover and Shavuot; Het — eight days of circumcision; Yod — the Ten Commandments; Lamed — corresponding to thirty righteous ones like Abraham… Tav — ‘nehilot’ [also hints to] the four hundred years that Israel sojourned in Egypt, and after four hundred years they inherited the Torah” — Midrash Tehillim (Buber), Psalm 5.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בֵּין פֶּסַח לַעֲצֶרֶת

Definition (Hebrew)

חֲמִשִּׁים הַיָּמִים שֶׁבֵּין חַג הַפֶּסַח לְחַג שָׁבוּעוֹת. תְּקוּפָה שֶׁבָּהּ נָהוּג לִסְפּוֹר אֶת סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר.

("לַמְנַצֵּחַ אֶל הַנְּחִילוֹת — אָמַר ר׳ יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי: הַנְּחִילוֹת — לְשׁוֹן נוֹטָרִיקוֹן, ה׳ חֲמִשָּׁה חֻמְשֵׁי תּוֹרָה, נ׳ חֲמִשִּׁים יוֹם בֵּין פֶּסַח לַעֲצֶרֶת, ח׳ שְׁמוֹנָה יְמֵי מִילָה, י׳ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת, ל׳ כְּנֶגֶד שְׁלֹשִׁים צַדִּיקִים כְּאַבְרָהָם... ת׳ דְּהַנְּחִילוֹת אַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה שֶׁנִּשְׁתָּהוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּמִצְרַיִם, וְאַחֲרֵי אַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה נָחֲלוּ אֶת הַתּוֹרָה" — מִדְרַשׁ תְּהִלִּים (בּוּבֶּר) מִזְמוֹר ה׳)

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