Anticipating Shavuot. Anticipating the ultimate redemption!

When we usually think of getting ready for Shavuot we naturally think of the period of Sefiras Haomer as the preparation time that the Torah mentions for this important holiday. Just as the Jewish people had to purify themselves from the Egyptian exile and prepare themselves for the receiving of the Torah, so too we must prepare ourselves each year during this time. And this is why we do sefiras haomer.

However, Rav Yitzchak Arama (one of the great Jewish thinkers from the last generation of Spanish Jewry. He is most famous for his work on Chumash titled “Akedas Yitzchak”) in his work ‘Chazos Kasheh” chapter 12 explains that in reality the preparation period for Shavuous was much much longer than 49 days. If one looks at things from a broader perspective, in truth, Hashem was preparing the world for 2,448 years until finally........

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