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Counting the Omer and Yeshua’s Soon Return

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After the appointed festivals of Pesach (Passover) and Bikkurim (First Fruits), which occurred on the second day of Passover, we entered into a period called Sefirat HaOmer, or Counting the Omer (Sheaf). The Torah commands the Jewish People to count seven weeks (49 days) from the time of this wave offering until the evening of the festival of Shavuot. Shavuot occurs on the fiftieth day.

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Parasha Acharei-Kedoshim (After-Holy Ones): Holy Confidence in Atonement

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This week’s combined Torah portion, Parasha Acharei-Kedoshim, discusses Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and holiness. It begins with Aaron, the Cohen Hagadol (high priest), preparing for the crucial once-a-year sacrifice on the Day of Atonement. In order to minister before the Lord on this holy day, Aaron first immersed himself in the mikvah (ritual cleansing). Before he brought the ketoret (incense offering) into the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the Sanctuary, he put on simple, white linen clothing, representing purity and humility, which was appropriate for this sacred day, instead of his resplendent golden garments.

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Parasha Tazria-Metzora (She Conceives-Infected One): Is Telling the Truth with the Wrong Intent Sin?

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The laws pertaining to purification, including childbirth, purity in marriage (niddah), and leprosy are discussed. These regulations may be understood in purely hygienic terms, for the religious significance, or both. The issue, however, is not one of clean versus unclean, but pure (tahor) versus defiled (tameh).

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Yom HaShoah: Remembering the Six Million Who Died in the Holocaust

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As the sun set last night, all places of public entertainment closed, and Israel began its annual remembrance of the six million lost souls who were sacrificed on the Nazi altar of hate and genocide. At Yad Vashem—The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem—a special ceremony was held at the “Warsaw Ghetto Square” as the flag was lowered to half-staff and Holocaust survivors lit six torches symbolizing the six million murdered innocents.

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