[Avodah] sefirah perushim and zadukim

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From: rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com

>>This past shabbos we were  learning sefira and we looked at the humash.

Eureka! I was dumbounded!  How did Zadokim know WHEN to cut the omer?

The Hanafa and Sefira follows  the shabbas AFTER the ketzira. But the
time of ketzira is not pinned  down!

Why not 2-3 weeks after hag hamatzos!? It never identifies when to  cut
only hanaf-sefira after Shabbos! <<

 
 
>>>>>
You have put your finger on one of most ironic  things about the Tzadokim 
and the later Kara'im -- namely, that they perforce  developed their own 
"Torah shebe'al peh."
 
In this case, I believe that they taught that you cut the first barley on  
the first Motzai Shabbos of Pesach, whether Shabbos happened to be the first 
day  of Pesach or the last day or whatever day of Pesach it fell, and they 
celebrated  Shavuos seven weeks after that, always on a Sunday.  Which  
reminds me of that lovely Peggy Lee song, "You can kiss me on a Monday, a  
Tuesday, a Wednesday.....but never on a Sunday, 'cause that's my day of  rest."  
In the case of the Tzedokim it was:  you can't start  counting the omer on a 
Monday, a Tuesday, a Wednesday....but always on a  Sunday 'cause that's 
what I think best....And you can't have Shavuos on a  Monday, a Tuesday, a 
Wednesday... but only on a Sunday..."
 
Which Sunday?  They had to make up their own Torah shebe'al peh for  that.


--Toby Katz
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