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By REV. DR. IGNATIUS MUELLER,
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ly, as nitude and the distance of the heay.
The Jewish festivals are weekly,
Ole
Sabbath;
monthly,
as
the
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enly bodies. Thus engaged he learns
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Moon; and annual, as Passover, Pen• to know better the power, the wis-
to cost and Tabernacles. At each of dom and goodness of God. When
p the last mentioned, the men of Israel God made Himself known to Abra- ' g
appeared before the Lord at the na- ham, lie said to him: "Look now to.
ward heaven and count the stars, if
/ tional altar, in Jerusalem. These fes.
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Ovals, therefore. are called "Shalmh thou be able to number therm"
Festi- ing the heavens, we are told: "Ile
Regalim" (the Three Pilgrim .
age believed in the Lord, who accounted.
vats). The design of the pilgrim
A vno to unite the Israelites among it to him as righteousness." All our
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themselves and make them feel a temporal gifts are given to us in
community of God. By such meet- number, weight and measure. Of all
ings they were joined together in Rol- arithmetical rules, however, the hard-
own worship and mutual friendship est is to number our days. Few pee-
/ promoted throughout the whole na. ple know how to use time. We most
the past is gone, the fu-
2 tion. On one of them, the Feast of learn that not
come, and the present :
, p Tabernacle, it was usual for the ture has
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king of Israel, or the chief of the' will soon become the past.
recalled; tomorrow,
n ation, to read to the people from ' y
the Torah, to instruct them therein, cannot he assured; only today is ours.
and to exhort them to observe the law Time is the measure of life. Every
than by the part of it, therefore, is valuable. And
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hand of Meets, according to the com- yet we count our money most care-
mandment of the Lord. Those visits fully, estimate the revenues of our
to
d i Jerusalem, therefore, were intend. estate with great caution; we even
excite the people to virtue and number the days and years of other
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people, but we forget to number our I
'religion.
own. We fail to notice that among
The Law of Moses re, uires only all blessings none comes to us more
males to appear before the Lord
I the
on these three solemn occasions. The I sparingly than our life-time, that we
p women, however, were exempted have not two moments, much less two
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Moses, to whom the nintieth psalm
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,rd Hannah, for instance, the mother of is ascribed, was learned in all the
the prophet Samuel, used to go with sciences of the Egyptians, of which,
no doubt, arithmetic was one. The
her husband, Elkanah, once a year, to
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worship and sacrifice to the Lord of
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the contemplation of mankind which
P nation, and there is none today tak- he offers to us may bring forth its
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fort and convenience of women than good fruit in the heart. Here our
great teacher prays that God would
Israel of old. They were not obliged
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aright, that we may learn to know
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the number of our days, the rapidity
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hardship and danger, from which they bility to be cut down, the certainty
were to be spared, and also because that they must soon come to an end,
the young children and the whole and their bearing on the future state
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household affairs would have been of being. Numeration is a child's ex-
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abandoned, if both parents had been ercise in arithmetic. In order, how-
ever, to number our days properly,
absent from their home so long at the
need the Lord's guidance. Moses,
same time.
therefore, desired to learn this point
The three great festivals have some of arithmetic of God Himself. Thus
characteristics in common. Their he prays: "So teach us to number
particular and proper circumstances, our days, that we may apply our
however , have also their distinct hearts unto wisdom." And because
causes. The first two, Pesach and
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Shebuoth, mark the two greatest he considers this a subject of serious
difficulty. he does not say that we
events in the history of Israel, yea,
in the history of the world. The one ' should apply our brains to it, but our
hearts. For to number our days is
presents to us Israel's delivery from not simply to take the reckoning and
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is also a close connection between the to take the measure of our days as
in the House
compared with the preparation to be
two feasts. For the Exodus
Egypt was only the necessary preps•made for eternity. We are to num-
ber our days by our daily obedience
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, to God and our daily acts of love to-
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reel, to receive the AN/ at Sinai,
from which is to spring the salvation wards our fellowmen. To accomplish
this, however, we must apply our
f11111 redemption of the world.is hearts unto wisdom. When the Wise
festival is called in the Law itself by King shows us the way how to become
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several names: "The Feast of ,
to of the
gene rally spt eaks
Weeks," "The Feast of Harvest" and heart,
wi sdom
!wart, " ive th ine hear
"The Day of the First Fruits." It is let wisdom enter into thine heart.'
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count seven times seven days, eac
time, that precious possession of
day singly and carefully, but shall
which none of us, old or young, can
take into consideration a practical
tell how long it will be his own.
duty which that enumeration pre-
Therefore, each day shall be consid-
sents to our mind. I shall consider
ered as important and be counted.
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The pious Israelite lays great stress what we can learn from each seven
upon this precept, which thus reads: year of our life.
Look at the infant up to the close
"And ye shall count unto you from
of his first seven years. We must
the morrow after the Sabbath, from
let him be merry and playful. What
the day that ye bring the omer of the
could we expect of him in such a ten-
wave-offering, that it be seven com-
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pose upon his weak shoulders? None,
the seven "Sabbaths" mentioned we
not at all. Even of Samuel, at that
are to understand seven weeks. Our
sages have taken these words literal- age, Holy Scriptures tell us: "The
ly and demand the actual counting. child was a child." You cannot make
The feast itself is regarded as a sup- a child responsible for his deeels. God
plement to the Passover and is called would not have it, and nature does
his
Pentecost, from a Greek word mean- not allow it. Only his parents,
ing fiftieth. And because the count- father and mother, can be called on
expedients
in
his
helplessness.
ing begins on the day on which the for
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marks that the Israelite observes the
"Bar Mitzvah," bound to obey the
prescribed counting to the honor of
Law and responsible for his deeds.
the approaching festival, as one, ex-
On the Sabbath following his thir-
pecting his best and most beloved
teenth birthday, when the open To-
friend at an appointed time, numbers
rah was lying alongside of the con-
the days and hours of the anticipated
firmed son, to which he was called up
visit, till his arrival. (More Nebu- and read a section of it, thereby de-
chim 3:48.) It is in this sense that
claring in the presence of the whole
we count the time between Pesach,
congregation his belief in the divine
the feast of redemption from physical origin of the Law, the father, too,
slavery, and Shebuoth, the feast of
did say: "Blessed be He who bath
our spiritual freedom, and introduce released me from the responsibilty
the sacred computation with the fol -
f this one's acts." In these words
lowing benediction."Ble ssed
Thou, 0 Lord, our God, King of the he thanked God for having assisted
Universe, who hest sanctified us by him in doing his duty toward his child
precepts, and commanded us as a father and an Israelite. Hail to
And when we count five times
Thy
on, and hail the father, if
seven, we have 35. Then we have
concerning the counting of the the s to
Omer." both can bless God with a good con- reached half of the years of our life.
The days of the Counting of the science. This beautiful custom is no For thus it is written: "The days
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fitly regarded as the link more in practice. Who knows wheth- of our years are three score years
Omer are
connecting Pesach and Shebuoth and er it has not been abolished because and ten." This is the ordinary limit
are compared to a bridge spanning some fathers would not dare to ap- e of the life of man. True, we read:
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two banks. Passover represents the pear in the House of Go
ga "And if by reason of strength they
are four score years." Yes, that is
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people. It is the birthday of the na- tion profess that they have done their so; but let as consult our own ob-
tion. While Pentecost represent% the full duty and preserved to the best servation. The majority of men, we
h f their abilities the precious life observe, do not reach the number of
rem
full summer-ti e an
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1(1 of the Revelation at Sinai. The which God gave them for safekeep- 70 years. Our cemeteries contain
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coffins of diverse length, and every
counting of the Omer marks our ing
and Prosperous New Year.
within a century is inscribed on
Olplace upon the dial of life and shows But I shall go on counting. Thir-
our
us the two extreme phases of it, the , teen and seven are 20. And in
one or the other of our tombstones.
short distance between the cradle and twentieth year much is required of How seldom are we called to follow
are twofold: to our- to the grave, or inter the mortal re-
the grave. The bridge, serving for us. Our duties
II time It is the selves and others. The first in artier mains of one who had reached the
our passage,
medium which connects the past with ' is our own salvation. li or t e nag age of three score years and ten. In
can be no excuse. counting the days of our life, there-
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