Emor
R. Bachya ibn Pakuda on Parashat Emor, read on Shabbat Emor · Sefirat HaOmer — with one of this week's three questions for the two of you.
Emor contains the calendar of festivals — the moadim, the appointed times. The whole architecture of the Jewish year. Bachya, in Shaar HaBitachon, hears in the festival calendar a structural teaching about trust. Bitachon is not just an emotional posture. It is a practice, embedded in the way the Torah marks time. Each festival comes when it comes, not when we want it. Each counting waits its number. To count the Omer day by day, week by week, until Shavuot is to enact bitachon — to say with our bodies: I trust the gift will arrive when its time comes, not before. The body learns trust through repetition. The calendar teaches what argument cannot.
What is something we have been counting toward in our shared life — patiently, day by day — that has not yet arrived, and is not yet supposed to?
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