Today Rosh Chodesh Sivan , is the day when we enter the desert of Sinai and prepare to receive the Torah. We have before us the last days of that account - the Sefitat HaOmer - that leads us from Pesach to Shavuot .
Rav Mordechai Elon shlita , stressed that there are two types of sefirot - accounts, both on display in the Book of Vajkrà we just completed. The first group is related to the number of days of the purification process. The only example we have today is the purification of women after her cycle (or after childbirth). When there was a sanctuary, however, there were other people whose impure purification process involved the account of a certain number of days. In these cases, the account is instrumental. There is no commandment to count: the woman must know that the day is in its shiva nekiim , Seven days clean, but is not required to rely much less specifically to bless. There mizvà counting. There is mizvà purified and this is not possible without having to pass seven days.
On the contrary there are two types of account mizvà : the account of the 'omer precisely, and the account of the jubilee year of the cycle. In the first case mizvà is individual, the second is collective and is fulfilled by the Court.
Il percorso che ci apprestiamo a completare in questi giorni è allora un percorso di mizvà . Non è un passaggio strumentale. I quarantanove giorni dell' Omer non sono una sala d'attesa nella quale aspettiamo. Sono un percorso nel quale cresciamo ed attraverso il quale ci avviciniamo alla Torà. In questo senso spiega Rav Elon , il conto dell' Omer è assolutamente in controtendenza rispetto alla nostra società del risultato, qui ed adesso. La sefirat haOmer , teaches us the importance of the route. We are accustomed to thinking that what counts is the result. The days of counting the 'Omer teaches us that the road is no less important. It is not half, but also end it.
So it is precisely for the study of Torah. No matter how much we have learned, no matter how we got it: count how much we tried. The street has more of where you are going.
We understand then what say our Sages, that the role of the road is to studiarvici Torah.
And 'yes' a clear reference to the words of the Shema , but also a profound teaching that the Torah and the road need to understand the importance of the route. And that is why the demand for Moses to postpone the gift of Torah a day - to complete the course - is upheld. Why the path to the Torah is equivalent to the Torah itself.
