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The Omer count is negative.

שו”תCategory: HalachaThe Omer count is negative.
asked 7 years ago

Hello Rabbi, Happy Holidays!
Is it possible to count the Omer in a negative way, meaning to say “Today is not two days for the Omer, today is not three days for the Omer,” and so on instead of counting “Today is one day for the Omer”?
Thank you very much.


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מיכי Staff answered 7 years ago
Wow, that’s a really stupid question. I didn’t understand it.

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תנשמת replied 7 years ago

This follows a debate about whether a person who counted all the days in the Omer (days one through forty-nine) except for the current day and then every other day he said was not today, and since there is a limited number of days in the Omer, it is possible to know what day it is even though he did not count the current day in its usual way.
Thank you very much, Happy Holidays

מיכי Staff replied 7 years ago

I didn't understand the gibberish. And if he just counted all the days except one, can't you deduce what the remaining one is? This is nonsense. You have to count in the form of a daily and weekly on the same day. Math exercises done on another day don't count as counting for that day.

יהושע replied 7 years ago

Today, the integral of half x in the third between 2 and 4 in the Omer, which are four weeks and the number of edges in a connected plane graph is less than the number of arcs plus the number of nodes days in the Omer, the Merciful, etc.

(The truth is that when I first read it, I thought I was joking, but maybe it does catch on, and is considered like counting in Chinese?)

מיכי Staff replied 7 years ago

On the contrary, it's clear to me that it's a count. But that wasn't the question.

Gil replied 6 years ago

Interestingly, I thought it should be stricter to say in the first week: "Today is three days, which is one week less four days in the Omer." And so on for every day of that week. And the grammarians will add "O'weimer/Le'weimer!" with a stressed reish like the "Zochweir" in Parashat Zachor. And all this in addition, of course, to the negative count of today, not the second day of the Omer (nor the third and fourth, and so on ad infinitum).

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

And the demonstration

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