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FOR RESERVATIONS PLEASE CALL 732.364.5564 1094 RIVER AVENUE • LAKEWOOD, NJ April 14, 2021 5 From the Editor’s Desk The Count-up (-not countdown) to Matan Torah the pages of the digested the new reality, and Moshe with a mental preparedness, and not history of many already informed them that their only back then when we left Egypt nations of the liberation has not yet been completed. to the desert, but in each and every world, we often We will receive the new constitution in generation. find a phenomenon a few weeks. This constitution will not Like a prisoner who counts the ofIn a people freeing themselves from be deliberated by the representatives days until his release, so we count the shackles of foreign oppression of the people, but it will be given the days until the day when we will and gaining independence. The straight from Heaven, and until it is be privileged to worship Hashem at longing for liberation and the hope for given, we will have to count the days the foot of har Sinai. With this count, independence give way to an inebriate towards the event! a bridge is drawn from Pesach to celebration with the fulfillment of the Shavuos. Many revolutions failed to national dream. The liberated people Counting as an Exercise in bring the desired results due to the want to taste the taste of freedom Preparedness fatigue of their protagonists – due all the way, and their leaders find it This count protects us from the to those who believed that they had difficult to take control of the people fatigue that gnaws at the heart of reached their goal even before any for the necessary nation building. In anyone who imagined that with meaningful nation building, and there order to prevent such a situation, a his freedom from the yoke of other was nothing more to aspire to. meticulous constitutional platform masters his ultimate goal has already The stability of many nations must be prepared and agreed upon been achieved. The count is a refresher that gained independence was before the handing out of freedom and of the aspirations of the redeemed so undermined when it became clear rights, the laws of which will be valid that they should not be content with that the final goal for the liberators immediately upon release, so that the the initial achievement, but they will became a bloody struggle for power. transition period does not become a continue to dream, fight and struggle No vision and no destiny were laid at hopeless mess. for the maximum! the foundation of this liberation, and In yetzias Mitzrayim the situation was This process will be the effort for the so it collapsed! different. There was no possibility of spiritual development of the people, anticipating and planning in advance for raising its moral standards. Only Counting in Appreciation of Time of the yetzias Mitzrayim and freedom. with this fulfillment will the people Counting gives us another No human laws were prepared and reach the desired satisfaction of a understanding and appreciation, it no constitutional government system truly free nation. teaches us the value of time! was developed. Without any prior This count brings us closer to the The days of Sefiras Haomer are days notice, the signal was given to leave status of receiving the Torah not of preparation for the impending Mitzrayim. Klal Yisrael had not yet only in terms of time, but particularly wedding day of our people. 6 2 Iyar 5781 Shavuos Since the days are days of preparation back on, and if the owner managed 5781 for receiving the beloved Torah, since to record important and interesting they are priceless and eternal spiritual events in its lines, this diary becomes treasures can be obtained in these a history book to preserve, with the days, the Torah set them apart and interesting annals of his life recorded Hashem commanded us to number by its contents. the days one by one. This is to elevate A person’s life is likened to a calendar. in our eyes the wonderful gift of the There are those who choose to rip out Torah, the value of the days and to the days page after page, until there make good use of time - to invest in it are no days left in a person’s life and he for that which will be preserved for passes away with nothing to preserve. eternity. And there are those who understand This is how chazal in the Midrash the importance of the pages of their when life and they fill them with content to - שבע שבתות תמימות“ :explained are these weeks complete? When Am preserve all the way to the end of days. Yisrael is doing the will of Hashem.” As the years go by, they have no reason completeness, as defined to be ashamed of the diary of their- תמימות The by the Torah has a double meaning: the lives, and it constitutes a valuable book weeks counted must be complete, and for posterity. the people of Israel, those who count The seven weeks leading up to the תמימות the weeks must also be completed in giving of Torah should be the process -by striving to do Hashem’s -complete. We don’t count the days in will. descending order, in the way that the days are removed and thrown out. Choosing the ‘Right’ Calendar This type of count-down is a process There are two types of calendars. One of elimination which will not bring is a daily wall calendar from which you us closer to Mount Sinai and the Holy tear off a page every day, throwing it Torah. We are required to take full in the garbage and revealing the next advantage of these days by filling them day. The second type of calendar is with content, therefore the Torah usually a weekly diary type, with commands us to count them up in the seven spaces for the days where there process of anticipation, marking the is room for listings, appointments and days and weeks, each day.