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size=2>From: rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com<BR><BR>>>This past shabbos we were
learning sefira and we looked at the humash.<BR><BR>Eureka! I was dumbounded!
How did Zadokim know WHEN to cut the omer?<BR><BR>The Hanafa and Sefira follows
the shabbas AFTER the ketzira. But the<BR>time of ketzira is not pinned
down!<BR><BR>Why not 2-3 weeks after hag hamatzos!? It never identifies when to
cut<BR>only hanaf-sefira after Shabbos! <<</FONT></DIV><FONT
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size=2>>>>>><BR>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."</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>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..."</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>Which Sunday? They had to make up their own Torah shebe'al peh for
that.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR>--Toby Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV>
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