https://youtu.be/yAhJHG37qZAThe period between Pesach and Shabou’ot struggles to accommodate two conflicting moods. The first derives from the joyful, anticipatory counting of the days between the commemoration of our departure from Egypt and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. The second stems from the remembrance of the period during the second century CE when, according to tradition, a plague killed 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiba.The joyous singing of Psalm 67, sung during the daily ceremony of counting the Omer suggests that The Spanish and Portuguese Minhag inclines toward the former of these two emotions.