KOL HASHONEH HALACHOT KOL YOM MUVTACH LO SHE'HOO BEN HAOLAM HABA

Taken from Rav Ovadya Yosef's Halacha Yomit:
1. Pirkei Avot states (Chapter 1, Mishnah 6): "Yehoshua ben Perachya says, 'Set a Rabbi for yourself, acquire a friend for yourself, and judge every person favorably.'" Rabbeinu Ovadia MiBartenura explains that when the matter can be seen equally from a positive and a negative point of view and there is no tangible evidence against the man either way, one should judge him favorably and give him the benefit of the doubt and not suspect him baselessly that he has done something improper, as the Torah states, "With righteousness shall you judge your fellow," and our Sages (Shevuot 30a) explain that this means that one must judge his friend favorably. 


2. The Torah states (Vayikra 21, 15): “And you shall count for yourselves, from the day following the Shabbat, from the day the waved Omer offering is brought, seven complete weeks shall they be.” Our Sages (Menachot 65b) had the tradition that the “day following the Shabbat” refers to the day following the first day of Pesach which is a holiday. (This is what is meant by the words, “the day following the Shabbat”, i.e. the day following the first day of Pesach which is a holiday, also known as, “Shabbaton”. Therefore, on the night following the first day of Pesach following Arvit, we immediately begin counting the Omer.) It is a Torah commandment to count the Omer beginning from the sixteenth of Nissan until the end of seven weeks, which is forty-nine days. 
SHABAT SHALOM!


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