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What is the connection between Sefirat Haomer and the period between
Pesach and Shavuot? During this time, Amalek went out to battle against
Bnei Yisrael because they had become lax in the study of Torah. This
reflected a flaw in their relationship with Hashem. Similarly, Rabbi
Akiva’s students died because they had become lax in their interpersonal
relationships. The period of Sefirat Haomer is a time of preparation for
receiving the Torah, when one improves both his relationship with
Hashem and with his fellow man, in order to repair the flaws that occurred
during these days.
The sin of Rabbi Akiva’s righteous students was that they did not examine
their deeds after witnessing their colleagues perish.

Hashem preceded the remedy to the malady by placing scholars in the
South so that Torah should continue to exist in the world.

“You shall count for yourselves – from the
morrow of the rest day, from the day when you
bring the omer of the waving – seven weeks,
they shall be complete. Until the morrow of the
seventh week you shall count, fifty days; and
you shall offer a new meal-offering to Hashem”

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