I am not a learned guy, sure I pasken for myself, can leaf through a mishna brura and try to talk in learning with any folks who may be interested, but I do not write halachic diatribes. However, I do…
Tag: sefiras haomer
Are you still counting the Omer?
I hate Meme’s, but my wife made this one that rings true. Bli-Eyin Harah I’m having a record Omer counting year. I have made it all the way to 16 while still saying the bracha, I’ve never made it past…
Chinuch Roundtable: I can’t live through sefira without music
Dear Chinuch Roundtable I cannot live through sefirah without listening to music. It’s mammesh a sakonoh for me since I’m addicted. I understand that we have to give up music, but why can we listen to Acapella? and why davka…
I’ve broken my personal omer record
I cannot honestly remember the last time I actually made it this far in the omer counting, like most post yeshiva types who don’t attend shul too often – I’m usually on top of the counting until Pesach ends at…
Sefiras Haomer is the perfect time to be extra frum
Just because we just finished Pesach and it’s chumra madness doesn’t mean you can’t one up all of your neighbors with chumros. If not for sefiras ha-omer all of the machmir police would have to wait until the three weeks…
Sefiras Haomer heterim and chumras
I listen to non-recorded music during sefiras haomer and I think its a BS heter. I just don’t buy it, but I can’t go without music for that long. Originally I made my own music heter by saying that I…
The best news I have heard all week
Even though its sefiras haomer women can shave their underarms and eyebrows (can we invoke a kal vachomer for other hairy areas that fall under this halachic item?) I myself have decided to go for the scruffy dirty hippie look…