After the omer was offered, they would go out and find the market place of Jerusalem full of flour and the flour of toasted grain, which was against the will of the Sages; [these are] the words of R’ Meir. R’ Yehudah says: [It was] in accordance with the will of the Sages [that] they did it. After the omer was offered, the new grain was permitted immediately. Those who were distant were permitted from midday and onward. After the Temple was destroyed, Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai instituted that the entire Day of Waving should be forbidden. Said R’ Yehudah: Is it not Biblically forbidden, as it is stated (Lev. 23:14): Until this very day? Why are those who are distant permitted from midday and onward? Because they know that the court does not procrastinate with it.