Each year, according to the Hebrew calendar, we count a set of days after the Passover to the Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot. Not only is there mystery in this fifty-day count, but there is also controversy as to how it should be counted. What exactly is the purpose in this activity? And, what is the dispute concerning its counting?

Maybe your personal temptation takes the form of eating food that you KNOW that you shouldn’t, but it just tastes SOO good and makes you feel SOO satisfied when you partake of it. Because it tastes so good, perhaps you justify that it is worth the extra weight you carry around as a result of consuming such things.