April 29, 1983 • Page Image 26
…26 Friday, April 29, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Significance of Numbers and Counting the Omer (Continued from Page 1) The last of the 13 is best known to us because it was sung in the ghettos, in the death camps and is sung today as a melodic testa- ment of faith — hoping for the ultimate coming of the Messiah. While we have many well-known numbers such as 40, 13, 10, there is one which appears only once in our tradition, but it recurs w...…

















































