[Avodah] BaOmer vs. LaOmer

[R Davidovich]

>Mipninei Harav (page 102 in my version) cites RYBS as saying the same vort
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>that the girsaos depend on whether it is D'oraysa or D'rabbanan.



IIRC, this issue has been brought up before. I can't find my response, so I
will retype it:



The difference between LaOmer and BaOmer is about what the word "Omer" means
in the context of the sentence.



LaOmer means "According to the Omer", or "In relation to the Omer", as in
"L'mishpichosam, L'veis Avosam".  The counting sentence then translates:
"This is the nine days in relation to the time the (Korban) Omer is (would
have been) brought."



BaOmer uses the word 'Omer' euphemistically, as shorthand for Sefiras
Haomer, the Counting (from the time) of the Omer. The counting sentence then
translates as "This is nine days in/of the "Omer" count."



>From a purely halachic/Chumash-literal standpoint of what the word actually
means; a volume measure, of wheat that was offered on the sixteenth of
 Nissan, LaOmer fits.


But given that the Bracha itself refers to the mitzva euphemistically as
"Sefiras Haomer", just as other words in Loshon Kodesh evolved from a Tanach
meaning to a Chazal meaning, e.g. the word "Goy", and "Eitz", saying BaOmer
fits.



Nahara Nahara U'Pashtei. Each river has its own stream.



Raphael Davidovich
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