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Concerning the Omer [Count]
938. Concerning the Omer [Count]
Antwerp, Jerusalem 1962
Omer comes from the words “gathering sheaves,” which means connection. A person should try to make the connection between him and the Creator shine, as in a sapphire or a diamond. The world is called “the six days of action and Shabbat [Sabbath],” which are seven Sefirot, and there is Hitkalelut [incorporation] of the Sefirot. Therefore, we must connect ourselves to the Creator on all the days of the years of our lives, which are seventy years, implying that each year comprises ten Sefirot.
By correcting the connection, called Omer, we can be rewarded with the quality of Torah, which is regarded as “freedom from the angel of death,” as our sages said, “Do not call it Harut [carved] but rather Herut [freedom],” when we emerge from the enslavement to the inclination by means of the Torah.
This depends on man’s connection with the Creator. When one is in separation, he is called “idol-worshipper,” and the Torah was given only to the people of Israel, as it is written, “He did not do so to any nation and they did not know the ordinances,” since the Torah is called “an ordinance” and “a gift,” and was given only to Israel, and one is called “Israel” only when one is connected to the Creator.