"Full Count" is Episode #11 of Counting Days | Tom's Talmud Tisch on Sefirat Ha’Omer. Menachot, 66a
55COUNTING DAYS is a text-based Gemara mini-series focused on the Mitzvah of Sefirat Ha"Omer, the annual Post-Passover Counting of Days that leads us up to Shavuot -- the holiday commemorating the Giving of the Torah.
The series opened with the Reaping of Fresh Barley for the Firstling Grain Offering called The Omer, the eponymous source for our national count-up commandment, the details of which close out the Talmudic discussion on this Mitzvah matter.
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Tractate Menachot, Page 66a -- FULL COUNT completes this Mishna mini-series about the veracity of our Oral Tradition regarding the timing Sefirat Ha'Oomer.
This concluding Episode comes to us after exhaustive efforts to prove beyond any shadow of doubt that the Korban and accompanying Count are performed on the second day of Pesach, regardless of which day of the week it falls on.
Amongst the previous review of the many scripturally sourced proofs, and their respective strengths and weaknesses -- details of a dual counting emerged. In this climatic Episode we return to examine the nature, rational, and jurisprudence found in this Mitzvah multiple.
Decoding this will require a clarification of the Torah's repetition; are these two parts of a larger unit or do we speak of two distinct commandments?
Another important ingredient in this mix is the question of whether this Mitzvah still applies biblically -- despite the absence of the accompanying grain offering, or is the missing meal component irrelevant to the counting part we can fulfill?
This all seems to frame the original narrative about the duality or even seeming redundance about the differing forms of counting time in Mitzvah fashion.
This fascinating analysis of an often overlooked and little understood, yet foundational component of our spring season count will serve as the climatic ending of the details of the grain-offering induced counting.
This eleventh and final offering of this mini-series on Sefirat Ha'Omer, has been generously sponsored by Dr. Martin Kushner and Sharon Adler.