[Avodah] Why isn't Sefira 2 Mitzvos

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:38:57PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: Shouldn't this be a classic model for sefira being 2 separate mitzvos?
: If not - why not?

See
http://www.vbm-torah.org/shavuot/shav67-mt.htm and
http://www.vbm-torah.org/shavuot/shav68-mt.htm

It's a machloqes. Rabbeinu Yerucham says that the qorban and counting
weeks is one mitzvah, and counting days another. Therefore, counting
weeks today is a derabbanan zeikher lamiqdash. The Rambam (asei 161)
refers back to asei 140, counting yoveil, as well as points to the fact
that there is only one berakhah to show that it's one mitzvah. He also
notes that we do mention the weeks daily, unlike the Baal haMaor who
only required numbering the week weekly.

In either case, R' "Meish" (Moshe) Taragin discusses it at length.
Ayin sham.

The Rambam assumes that tefillah shel rosh rosh einah me'aqeves es
shel yad and v.v. proves that they are separate chiyuvim. (Tekheiles
and lavan within a single mitzvah of tzitzis is the exception.) I know
this is the converse aand not the contrapositive, but does holding that
counting days and counting weeks are mutually me'aqvos force one to
count them as a single one of the 613?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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