One Minute Daily Torah Thought - Rabbi Moshe Levin

Send us a textWhen you are eating the same thing for a week, even if it's your favorite food you aren't that excited to have any more of it..What's the first thing you're in the mood of after Passover? More matza? Probably not. Yet the Torah says that new food is prohibited. Only old food is good. What does that mean? Good morning!  Have you heard of the prohibition of "chadash"? It's prohibited to eat from any grain that is "new". Every year on the second day of Passover, a barley offering was offered to G-d in the Temple. That offering was meant to be the very first usage of the new harvest. So it's forbidden to eat from the new harvest until a offering is made to G-d. This offering is called the "Omer", that's a Torah measurement. The amount of barley used  weighed about 1.770kg. The Talmud states in Rosh Hashanah page 16a that Passover is a time of harvest for grain, and by giving the first gift to G-d, all the produce in the fields are bles