[Avodah] sephira question

[hankman]

RMB wrote:

Day 0 is the 1st day, such that when we measure the passage of 49 days,
we fulfilled "tisperu chamishim yom".

I respond:

I don't get it here any more than I do in quantum mechanics. (The Schroedinger's cat is both dead and alive at the same time until observed???) There are only 49 counts (either in arrears or in advance), if day zero is a real count (and is in arrears), then erev yomtov (your day 50) no longer has a count as we only actually counted 49 (in arrears) (despite the pasuk of "tisperu chamishim yom".) You sort of want day zero to be counted and not counted so which is it?

The alternative is 49 counts in advance (without day zero) and we are back to my original question.

If the nature of the first days count is vastly different than the other 48 counts then you could mean that the first count, counts two days at the same time, day zero in arrears and also day1 in advance, the following 48 are all in advance. But this leaves us with a non-uniform count methodology for the sephira.

Still not completely convinced.

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster
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