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Both the holiday of Lag B’Omer and Parshat Emor, which details the mitzvot of the Omer, occur this week, providing us with a perfect opportunity to ask how it is that a measure of barley flour could be so impactful that it merited three commandments: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the Israelites and you shall say to them: ‘When you come into the land that I am about to give you and you reap its harvest, you shall bring a sheaf, first of your harvest, to the priest. And he shall elevate the sheaf before the Lord to be acceptable for you, from the morrow of the Shabbat the priest shall elevate it… And you shall count you from the morrow of the Shabbat, from the