Timeline for Why are the days of sefiras haomer counted at the beginning but the weeks at the end?
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| May 15, 2019 at 18:37 | comment | added | user6591 | Curious. Truth is, according to the opinion that even when you miss a day you can still count weeks with a bracha by relying on those rishonim, we would be forced to say they counted weeks as completed, otherwise we would be counting the wrong weeks. But then, how to count the first week of Omer? | |
| May 15, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | I don't know, but the logically parallel way would be each day say היום יום פלוני at some point that day and each week say השבוע שבוע פלוני at some point that week. (Or only at night for some Rishonim) | |
| May 15, 2019 at 18:08 | comment | added | user6591 | @Double Do we have them stating how the counting of weeks would work? I.e. do they say at day eight start saying 8 days which is a week? (I don't recall offhand) Either way, our practice certainly makes more sense this way. | |
| May 15, 2019 at 18:05 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | But there are Rishonim who think you only need to count weeks on the whole-week days. This wouldn't answer for them | |
| May 15, 2019 at 17:46 | history | answered | user6591 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |