[Avodah] Is having a good time ossur

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re: <<If you read Rishonim and  omit Acharonim the  issurim
on Sefirah seem limited to:     1. Taspores       2.
nissu'in      3. some kind of mleacha [shabasos tihyena]>>

Others added that the aveilut appears only in the geonim. 
is interesting to note what the geonim said.

 Natronai Gaon says only that one does not marry from Pesach
to 'Atzeret. (That's the entire sefira. There is no discount 
that makes it a net ban of only 33 days.)

Hai Gaon adds an additional issur: One does not do m'lakha
from sunset until Shacharit.  (And that is the entire 
night!)

And these are the only limitations they mention.  With all 
the chumrot that have been added over the generations, one 
wonders why one of the originals was reduced from 49 to 33 
days and the other has been completely forgotten.  I've seen 
attmpts to explain this loss of an issur by conjecturing 
that R' Hai meant that one shouldn't do m'lakha until after 
counting the omer!  Do they think that R' Hai didn't know 
how to write what he meant and when he wrote "until morning" 
he meant something altogether different?

BTW, this was discussed on list in the past and should be in
the archives.

David