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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RMB wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Day 0 is the 1st day, such that when we measure the passage of 49
days,<BR>we fulfilled "tisperu chamishim yom".<BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I respond:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"tisperu chamishim yom".) You sort
of want day zero to be counted and not counted so which is
it?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The alternative
is 49 counts in advance (without day zero) and we are back to my original
question.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Still not completely convinced.</DIV>
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<DIV>Kol Tuv</DIV>
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<DIV>Chaim Manaster</DIV>
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