Shavous: Chag Hakatzer - Rabbi Ari Waxman

so here we are amongst the wheat fields of the island valley as we get ready for shavuous we know that wheat and barley are two of the seven minim that eretz israel is praised with eric sora let's take a look for a second at the wheat from up close [Music] besides this general praise there's a specific time connection to these two first of all agriculturally a couple of weeks ago was the time of harvesting the barley and now is the time of harvesting wheat if you want confirmation for that beyond asking your local farmer you can look at the mishna in the dharm parakhes which tells us if somebody makes a neder until the time of katsir so the neder is khal until the time of harvesting katsir tim the mishnah says the later time and not the earlier time of katsir of barley another time connection the time we're in right now and wheat and barley is of course the omer at the beginning of omer the first day an offering is brought made up of barley at the end of the omer at the end of the seven weeks a minute is brought made up of wheat as the gemara menachem tells us and finally khagashwar khageshwart itself is called in the torah katsir the time of harvesting harvesting what harvesting the wheat which any day the farmers will come by to harvest and a connection to barley on schwoes we of course read magillas roos and the second perak of rose so can tell us that ruth went out to the field and harvested an effect of barley and then stayed in the field boaz invited you to stay longer for the harvest of barley and the wheat as well if you're having a difficult time differentiating differentiating between these two the barley and the wheat you're not alone the gemara involved tells us that people don't know how to differentiate well between the two and therefore that does not disqualify testimony of adam regarding a field to bring them in very soon to the beta dash have a hug sameer