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Forty-Nine Or Fifty?[1]

Until the morrow of the seventh week, you shall count fifty days.[2] This pasuk puts quite a strain on any regard we may have for arithmetic. The previous pasuk told us to count seven weeks, which conventionally add up to forty-nine, not fifty. Moreover, our practice seems to be to ignore this pasuk. We never […]

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