Emor: Count Up to Reach Your Goal - Rabbi Eitiel Goldwicht

i don't know what it's like by you but by me my kids are already counting down the days for summer break see whenever you're anticipating a great day a great moment you count down the days thousands of people gather together in times square every year counting down ten nine eight waiting for the new year to come in this week's torah portion were also commanded about counting in anticipation for a great day firata omel anticipating the day of kabbalah the day we received the torah at sinai but yet the count here is counting up why are we counting up we should be counting down here the rabbis teach us there's two different types of counting there's counting when you're counting and anticipating to receive something you're going gonna get this big gift on a certain day so therefore you count in anticipation you count down but there's another count where you need to work your way up to earn something imagine you want to shed 10 pounds so you join this program 30 days money back guarantee you're gonna lose 10 pounds day one you work hard day two day three you tell your friend i'm two weeks into the program i already lost five pounds i can't wait for the end of the 30 days to check if i really lost those 10 pounds whenever you work towards a specific goal and you want to earn it you're counting up it's been already four five weeks into the sphere we're working our way up into the kabbalah the more we work on ourselves become more unified with our friends try to take a day to learn a moment to learn then we're working our way up and we will be ready for the day where we receive the torah again shabbat shalom