So who says we can't have two lenten periods? But the sefira period is much more squishy, both in terms of what is commonly avoided, and in terms of its dates. There are very few days in those six weeks on which everybody is observing sefira restrictions.
Is there an Easter at the end of it? By that I mean that Lent, while a period of penitence and fasting, is also a time of preparation for the miracle of Easter. Is there a similar sort of celebration at the end of the Nine Days?
No, because the thing being mourned (the Temple) hasn't been restored yet. So there's a Good Friday/Holy Saturday, but we've been waiting 1935 years for an Easter Sunday. Maybe this year, though so far it looks like things are about to get worse, not better, with the expulsion of the Jews from the Gaza strip set to happen on the morning of the 10th of Av, right when the Temple was burning, back in 70 CE.
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