What comes between Passover and Shavuot? It's Lag B'omer !

Before we start to talk about Shavuot I just wanted to quickly talk about Lag B’Omer. It is important because it isn’t often that we actually have a full lesson on this.
Lag B’Omer is the period between Passover and Shavuot where we count the days. Passover remember is the time when we have our seders and celebrate the freedom of the Jews from Egypt and i is also the time when harvest season starts. So we count from Passover through to the First day of Shavuot, our next holiday.
The counting is called Lag B’Omer. It links these two holidays from when we were saved from slavery to the giving of the Torah. There are 49 days between the two holidays. We say a special prayer every evening and announce the day we counted, e.g. on Day 20 we would say we counted 20 days, 2 weeks and 6 days...

We often celebrate Lag B'omer with a picnic, it is a happy time after a period which is quite solemn.
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Now for those who were here last year let's try to remember how we count in hebrew. We are May 9th and Shavuot is May 19th so we have 10 days to count. Remember, this is how we count in hebrew :

1 - ACHAT

2 - SHTA-YEEM

3 - SHAH-LOSH

4 - AR-BAH

5 - HAH-MESH

6 - SHESH
7 - SHEH-VAH
8 - SHMOH-NEH
9 - TAY-SHA

10 - ES-AIR

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Full Shavuot lesson to follow after the class.