#sefirat ha Omer

[torais-life]

Elevándonos durante Sefirat ha Omer. Conversando sobre la Parasha Emor. Rab. Kalmus & Rab. Kornblit en YouTube

[cuties-in-codices]

samson as atlas

from a manuscript comprising the order of the sefirat ha-omer ("counting of the omer"), amsterdam, 1795

source: Zurich, Braginsky Collection, B28, fol. 1r

[kimchicuddles]

For my mishpocha who are counting. I wanted to share this with you this year, as we wander the desert back to the place that our souls first met and have always been.

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The Omer is counted every nightfall starting the 2nd night of Passover until the night before Shavuot (marking when we received the Torah). This yearly cycle of counting lasts 49 days and every nightfall has its own opportunity for reflection. 

Each of the 7 weeks has its own focus and each of the 7 days within each week has its own focus within that focus. 

During Sefirat Ha'Omer, we are invited on a mystical journey, a journey that spirals us deeper and deeper into discovering what exists within our psyches and souls...

Tonight's focus is chesed within chesed. Lovingkindness within lovingkindness.

Chesed is a word without direct English equivalent but is often translated as lovingkindness, and is connected to ideas of an unconditional constant flow of the vibrant spark of creation itself.

In what ways do I block that flow and withhold the fullness in my heart? 

When do I feel most connected and attuned to the abundance of love within me?

[infiniteglitterfall]

Oh crap I forgot about counting the omer! I was even gonna post about it ahead of time but I did notttt

Well, iirc, it does not matter halachically. Just jump in where you are. This app has the bracha, and then you say "today is day X" or "today is X weeks X days" or both, depending upon your preference.

What I like about it is that it also talks about the meaning of each day, and then it asks the WORST MOST INCISIVE FUCKING QUESTIONS?@? FOR YOU TO JOURNAL OR THINK ABOUT??? Like I am not even kidding when I say it just absolutely DRAGS me multiple times each year.

Seriously, let's tap on "Journal" and see what prompts it gives me right now. There are apparently 9 today, I can't remember if that's true every day or what. But the very second one is, "Do others take advantage of my giving nature?" Oof?

Then here's a puzzler: "Do I take into account the capacity of my partner to receive love before I give it?" I am aroacely applying these to everyone I love, in my mind, and it is tripping me out to think nonjudgmentally about the ramifications of, like...

I'm picturing love as being like a pitcher of water I pour, and frankly I don't care how small a cup you chose off that shelf! You are getting ALL MY LOVE and we're just gonna acknowledge that I'm pouring water all over your shoes! I don't have time for MEASURING this shit!

Or I don't like you and you can have just a little bit of water. Because I'm not a dick.

It's 2 am, make sense of these thoughts if you can.

[isaiah118]

Month of IYAR

Month of Transition, Healing, Testing & First Fruit Harvest

Part 1 - Transition

Revelations 22:12: “And behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according to his work.”

(April /May)                  April 22/1 Iyar to May 20th/29 Iyar

Babylonian Name                Iyar – meaning “The Beauty of blooming flowers” “light”

Hebrew Acronym                Ani Hashem Rophecha meaning “I AM the Lord your Healer”

Hebrew Name                      Ziv – meaning “Splendor” “Radiance”

Month of the Year               2nd month of Spiritual Year – 8th month of Physical/Civil Year

Theme of the Month            Month of Transition, Healing, Testing and First Fruit Harvest

Season                                    Spring/Aviv   Season of Deliverance

Key Appointed Times

Iyar 1                              Rosh Kodesh Iyar – Head of the month of Iyar

Iyar 14                                    Pesach Shemi – Second Passover

Nissan 16 – Sivan 6             Sefirat HaOmer/Counting the Omer

Important Note:                   Iyar 25 – Yeshua’s Ascension – 40th day of The Omer Count

Color / Gemstone        Royal Blue / Amethyst

Tribe of Israel                Issachar – meaning “Adonai Brings Reward”

Hebrew Letter              VAV / Value 6 – Nail, Tent Peg, To Connect, Secure

Action / Body Part      Introspection / Right Kidney

Constellation                Taurus / “Ruling Ox”

Characteristics and Scriptures to Meditate On

Iyar is a connecting month / Abide in Him                      John 15

The month that Yeshua walked the earth after His resurrection  John 20

Month to receive revelation and understand secrets                                       Matthew 13:11

Meditate on God’s Names revealed in Scripture                                             Exodus 15-17

Time to understand that healing IS part of your salvation                              Romans 8:11

By His stripes you & I were and are healed                                                    Isaiah 53:5 & 1 Peter 2:24

Partake of His Best food – His Word and His Spirit                                                         Psalms 78:19

This was the month Israel moved from Egypt into ‘Midbar’                          Exodus 15-18

Accept and receive God’s counsel from His Word   Psalms 119:99 & Proverbs 15:22

Take upon the secrets of HIS light and cast your cares on Him   Matthew 11:28

The Name “Iyar” is of Babylonian origin. The older Biblical or Canaanite name is “Ziv” as it is related in 1 Kings 6:1; “in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, (the second month), that he began to build the house of the LORD.” (KJV2000). This is the month of ‘Shining or Blossoming.’ Iyar always has 29 days.

Iyar is related to the Hebrew word for light, “ohr.” Midrash explains that it was named for the manna which began to fall during Iyar, a month after the Jews left Egypt. The manna was given with divine radiance.

The Akkadian equivalent of Iyar, Ayyāru, means flower.

Iyar is the eighth month of the civil year and the second month of the ecclesiastical or spiritual year in the Jewish calendar. Iyar is between Passover and Shavuot (Pentecost). The Hebrew symbol represented by this month is ‘VAV’ meaning ‘linking’ or ‘connection, to connect.’ This is the month to establish a deeper link or connection with God in order to establish or determine the course of the year.

Iyar - A Crucial Month

A month of healing.

It was in Iyar that God first revealed Himself as Healer.

A month to understand God’s secrets.

Iyar is a month of transition. This was the month the Israelites journeyed from Egypt to Mount Sinai. For the Israelites this was more than just transitioning. This was a drastic geographical change. They had never been this way before. God was transitioning them into a new level. This was about establishing a relationship, a connection and a link with God. This was a transition from ‘Redemption’ (Passover) to the experience of God’s supernatural provision ‘Pentecost.’

The month of Iyyar falls between the great month of redemption (i.e.,Nisan) and the great month of revelation (Sivan), and is therefore primarily commemorated as a "month of passage" leading up to the awesome revelation given at Sinai (mattan Torah).

Later, the agricultural aspect of this "passage" was enshrined in terms of Sefirat HaOmer or the "counting the sheaves," when a sheaf of barley was waved before thealtar each day for 49 days before the arrival of the climactic holiday of Shavuot (Lev. 23:15-16).

Special Dates

Apr 25, 2023 – Memorial Day – יום הזיכרון (Yom Hazikaron)

Iyar 4 – Memorial Day in memory of the fallen soldiers of the Israel Defense forces and victims of Arab terrorism.

Apr 26, 2023 – Yom HaAtzmaut – יום העצמאות

Iyar 5 – Israel Independence Day marks the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel in 1948.

May 9, 2023 – Lag Baomer – ל"ג בעומר

33rd day of counting the Omer.

May 5, 2023 – Pesach Sheni

Iyar 14 - Pesach Sheni, the second Pesach, is a mandated make-up day for those who could not bring   the paschal sacrifice at its appointed time.

May 19, 2023 – Jerusalem Day – יום ירושלים

Iyar 28 – Jerusalem Day celebrates the liberation of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

The Spring Month of Iyar is Associated with Issachar

Iyar falls in the spring season – Nissan - Mar/Apr, Iyar - Apr/May, Sivan - May/Jun – correspond to the three tribes of the camp of Judah – Judah, Issachar and Zebulun who were situated to the east of the Tabernacle in the wilderness. These three tribes were the first group to lead out onto the battlefield before the rest of the tribes of Israel.

Issachar comes from the Hebrew ‘Yissakar’ meaning ‘he will bring a reward.’ (See Genesis 30:18). The root word is ‘nasa’ meaning to lift, to advance arise, bring forth, carry away, lofty. The second root word means payment of contract, salary, fare, hire, price, reward and wages.

Revelations 22:12 reads; “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”

Issachar’s symbol is the donkey

Genesis 49:14-15; “Issachar is a strong donkey crouching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto forced labor.”

Issachar is an astronomical configuration here shown by the sun surrounded by stars. Issachar was to give Israel knowledge of the times (1-Chronicles 12:32). This is understood to mean astronomical reckonings. They were the burden bearers for both theirs and others. God gave them an inbuilt strength. The donkey is a beast of burden, the humble vehicle chosen by Yeshua to bring Himself into Jerusalem. Issachar was the carrier of the cross of Yeshua.

Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.”

The symbol of Issachar is the humble donkey. But also the sign of a sun shining at noon day surrounded by four stars to the left that shine out of a dark night and four to the right that are darkened because of the brightness of the day. This is a picture of outer space with the heavenly bodies in plain view. This is a significant symbol for Issachar, whose name is derived from the root-word ‘nasa,’ which means "to lift up, high, lofty, etc."

In the month of Nissan – God wants to reconfirm your Covenant with Him/Passover

In the month of Iyar – God desires to reveal the secrets of His Covenant

In the month of Sivan - God wants to bring you into a whole new level of Pentecost.

May the Lord bless you and keep you; Shalom

[zebratoys]

🤍✨הַיּוֹם שִׁבְעָה יָמִים, שֶׁהֵם שָׁבֽוּעַ אֶחָד לָעֹֽמֶר אב"ג ית"ץ מַלְכוּת שבחסד סֶלָה י Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer. Today is seven days, which is one week of the Omer.

may it be your will, Lord our God and God of our fathers, that in the merit of the Sefirat Ha-Omer which I counted today, the blemish that I have caused in the sefirah Malchus ShebeChesed be rectified and I may be purified and sanctified with supernal holiness. May abundant bounty thereby be bestowed upon all the worlds. May it rectify our nefesh, ruach and neshamah from every baseness and defect, and may it purify and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness. Amen, selah.

[livrodascartas]

Começando com perguntas

A proposta deste espaço é registrar minhas reflexões ao longo dos 49 dias do período do Sefirat ha Omer cabalísta. Não sou judeu, não sou um cabalista, mas sou um buscador. Desejo autoconhecimento e, por meio dele, quem sabe, inspirar a caminhada de alguém.

Estamos em quarentena. Foi muito difícil a decisão de começar esta jornada em meio ao período de isolamento e incertezas que estamos vivendo. Mesmo assim, refleti sobre o quanto um exercício de meditação, reflexão e autoconhecimento poderia me auxiliar.

Hoje reconheci que a liberdade dos oceanos pelos quais venho me aventurando talvez tenha me deixado um pouco desorientado: Para onde estou indo? Por que vim até aqui? São as correntezas que me levam ou sou eu quem guia a barca? O oceano é um mar de liberdades ou uma prisão de afogamento?

Espero que as reflexões do período me ajudem a esboçar algumas ideias. Respostas? Não sou tão ambicioso.

Nunca saberei quem sou, mas espero que sempre possa responder quem eu gostaria de ser: eu mesmo, simplesmente Max.

[mrcrich89]

Today Omer Count for Thursday Night April, 9 2021, 13 Days in the Omer.

“Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.

Today is twelve days, which is one week and five days of the Omer.

May the Merciful One restore unto us the service of the Bet Hamikdash to its place, speedily in our days; Amen, Selah.

For the Choirmaster; a song with instrumental music; a Psalm.

May God be gracious to us and bless us; may He make His countenance shine upon us forever; that Your way be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.

The nations will extol You, O God; all the nations will extol You.

The nations will rejoice and sing for joy, for You will judge the peoples justly and guide the nations on earth forever.

The peoples will extol You, O God; all the peoples will extol You, for the earth will have yielded its produce and God, our God, will bless us. God will bless us; and all, from the farthest corners of the earth, shall fear Him.

We implore You, by the great power of Your right hand, release the captive.

Accept the prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Mighty One, we beseech You, guard as the apple of the eye those who seek Your Oneness.

Bless them, cleanse them; bestow upon them forever Your merciful righteousness.

Powerful, Holy One, in Your abounding goodness, guide Your congregation.

Only and Exalted One, turn to Your people who are mindful of Your holiness.

Accept our supplication and hear our cry, You who knows secret thoughts. Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever.

Master of the universe, You have commanded us through Moses Your servant to count Sefirat Ha-Omer, in order to purify us from our evil and uncleanness.

As You have written in Your Torah, "You shall count for yourselves from the day following the day of rest, from the day on which you bring the Omer as a wave-offering; [the counting] shall be for seven full weeks.

Until the day following the seventh week shall you count fifty days," so that the souls of Your people Israel may be cleansed from their defilement.

Therefore, may it be Your will, Lord our God and God of our fathers, that in the merit of the Sefirat Ha-Omer which I counted today, the blemish that I have caused in the sefirah Hod ShebeGevurah be rectified and I may be purified and sanctified with supernal holiness.

May abundant bounty thereby be bestowed upon all the worlds.

May it rectify our nefesh, ruach and neshamah from every baseness and defect, and may it purify and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness. Amen, selah.”

[todaysjewishholiday]

26 Iyyar 5784 (2-3 June 2024)

Once again, we have a yahrzeit of two influential teachers centuries apart who shaped Judaism and demonstrate Jewish diversity and adaptability.

Saadia ben Yosef, Gaon of Sura, was born on the banks of the Nile in 4652, roughly 200 years after the Islamic conquest. Thus, rather than the Greco-Roman and Persian cultures of the Tannaim and Amoraim, he grew up in an Arabic speaking world shaped by a rival Abrahamic tradition. He was the first Jewish scholar to write primarily in Judeo-Arabic, the language later adopted by the Rambam Moshe ben Maimon. At the age of 20, Saadia began compiling a Hebrew dictionary. He soon went to eretz yisroel for further study, and after ten years there moved to Babylonia where he became a member of yeshiva of Sura, which had been in continuous operation from the time of the Amoraim. Within two years the Jewish exilarch appointed Saadia as Gaon of the academy.

From the start, Saadia’s career was shaped by disputation and sharp debate with those whose stances he found theologically or socially objectionable. The tenor of those disputes was shaped not only by Jewish tradition, but by the open conflict between Mutazilite and Mutakallamist scholars of Islam, who in Saadia’s time remained in dispute about whether the Quranuc text was a created object like other creations, or co-eternal with G-d and fundamental to the divine essence. Parallel debates about the Torah have raged in Judaism, but Saadia borrowed the shape of the qadi’s arguments rather than their content, engaging in sharp disputes about the proper way to calculate the Hebrew calendar and striving to defend rabbinic Judaism in fiery exchanges with Karaite scholars who accepted only the written Torah and rejected the oral traditions central to rabbinic practice. Saadia’s fiery temper and forceful personality soon put him at odds with his benefactor the Exilarch, and they spent several years in bitter conflict, each going so far as to issue cherem against the other. Their eventual reconciliation allowed Saadia to return to his position as head of the yeshiva of Sura, a position which carried great weight of authority for Jews throughout the Islamic world.

A prolific scholar, he composed numerous translations, publishing much of the Tanakh in Arabic translation, numerous linguistic texts on the Hebrew language, works of halakha, theology, and Jewish mysticism, and a large number of polemics against his various ideological opponents. He died in Sura in the year 4702 at the age of sixty, reportedly of severe depression from his many conflicts with the exilarch and others.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto was born just over eight hundred years late than Saadia, in 5467, in the Venetian Ghetto (the first Jewish quarter to be called by that odious name). He received a wide Jewish and secular education, and may have attended the university of Padua. In his teens he began to compose poetry, including his own collection of 150 Hebrew psalms in full biblical style, and study Jewish mysticism. At the age of twenty he claimed he had been visited by a Malakh and began writing down mystical lessons from this heavenly mentor. This claim of divine tutelage shocked and offended the Venetian rabbinical establishment, and he was only saved by cherem by agreeing to cease his writing and teaching of mysticism. He then emigrated to Amsterdam where he continued his mystical explorations while working as a diamond cutter, thus following closely in the footsteps of a controversial Jew from a century before, Baruch Spinoza. Disappointed by the difficulties of life in Amsterdam, he traveled to eretz yisroel with his family three years before his death and established a shul in Acre. He died during a plague outbreak in Acre at the age of 39, leaving behind an immense body of poetry, drama, and theological, ethical, and mystical instruction despite the seizure and destruction of much of his early work by the Venetian Jewish authorities. His works were soon praised by the Vilna Gaon and became central to the Mussar movement, and his Hebrew poetry and blending of secular and Torah learning and literature became a major inspiration to the Haskalah. For his rabbinic teachings he is known by the acronym RaMCHaL, for Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto.

The twenty-sixth of Iyyar is also the sixth night of the sixth week of the Omer count. Yesterday was the fortieth day of the Omer. After tonight’s count, 8 days remain before Shavuot.

[torais-life]

Shalom!. Who is counting Omer now?...39 DAYS in the Omer

AL SEFI-RAT HA-OMER. Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.

Today is thirty-seven days, which is five weeks and two days of the Omer. May the Merciful One restore unto us the service of the Bet Hamikdash to its place, speedily in our days; Omen, Selah.

For the Choirmaster; a song with instrumental music; a Psalm. May God be gracious to us and bless us; may He make His countenance shine upon us forever; that Your way be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. The nations will extol You, O God; all the nations will extol You. The nations will rejoice and sing for joy, for You will judge the peoples justly and guide the nations on earth forever. The peoples will extol You, O God; all the peoples will extol You, for the earth will have yielded its produce and God, our God, will bless us. God will bless us; and all, from the farthest corners of the earth, shall fear Him.

We implore You, by the great power of Your right hand, release the captive. Accept the prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Mighty One, we beseech You, guard as the apple of the eye those who seek Your Oneness. Bless them, cleanse them; bestow upon them forever Your merciful righteousness. Powerful, Holy One, in Your abounding goodness, guide Your congregation. Only and Exalted One, turn to Your people who are mindful of Your holiness. Accept our supplication and hear our cry, You who knows secret thoughts. Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever.

Master of the universe, You have commanded us through Moses Your servant to count Sefirat Ha-Omer, in order to purify us from our evil and uncleanness. As You have written in Your Torah, "You shall count for yourselves from the day following the day of rest, from the day on which you bring the Omer as a wave-offering; [the counting] shall be for seven full weeks. Until the day following the seventh week shall you count fifty days," so that the souls of Your people Israel may be cleansed from their defilement. Therefore, may it be Your will, Lord our God and God of our fathers, that in the merit of the Sefirat Ha-Omer which I counted today, the blemish that I have caused in the sefirah Gevurah ShebeYesod be rectified and I may be purified and sanctified with supernal holiness. May abundant bounty thereby be bestowed upon all the worlds. May it rectify our nefesh, ruach and neshamah from every baseness and defect, and may it purify and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness. Omen, selah.

*PERSISTENCE IN LINKING *

An essential component in a relationship is the ability to withstand challenges. You have to be persistent for a true union, if I focus on the other's weaknesses I will surely see a black road that does not have any proposal, but if I try to accompany and strengthen it, I will surely find common points that connect us and we can resume at some point that bonding. Let us remember that this count is annual, that is, each year we reinforce these qualities in us to overcome obstacles in personal relationships, and although it seems to us something seen and trite, each year finds us going through different situations, because then the work of the divine virtues in our life will be totally different. Seek accompaniment in situations that you cannot handle alone. QUESTIONS FOR TODAY

Am I fully committed? How much could I resist and how much am I willing to fight for the other? PRACTICAL ACTION FOR THIS DAY

Show your commitment, do something for the other that you don't like, but he does.

[wakingeve]

Day 2: Compassion
🌱 Attribute: Gevurah 🌱ShebeChesed (Strength, Power / Loving-Kindness)
🌱 Fruit of the Spirit: Love
🌱 Blessing:
“Barukh Attah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melek Ha Olam, Asher Kidshanu b’Mitzvotav, Vitzivanu al Sefirat Ha Omer.
Ha Yom Echad L’Omer.”
In English:
“Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of the Universe,
Who has separated us by Your commandments, and Who has commanded us to count the Omer.
Today is the second day of the Omer.”
🌱 Wisdom:
When He made the world, He made two ways to repair each thing: With harshness or with compassion. With a slap or with a caress. With darkness or with light.
“And G‑d looked at the light and saw that it was good.” Darkness and harsh words may be necessary. But He never called them good.
Even if you could correct another person with harsh words, the One Above receives no pleasure from it. When He sees his creatures heal one another with caring and with kindness, that is when He shines His smile upon us.
—Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, Tzvi Freeman
🌱 Scripture Reflection:
Read 1 John 2:4-11
In what areas of your life are you still blinded by the darkness? 🌱
Ask the Lord to show you how to abide in the light. 🌱 #countingtheomer #shavuot #countingup #pentecost #wordofgod #messianicjew #hebrewcatholic #bibleverse #faith #biblestudy #bible #torahforchristians #pesach #passover #readyingtheBride #growingrace #SacredWisdom 🌱 #ancientroots #WakingEve #SHEcountstheomer https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVRDS3A62z/?igshid=kn2lpni1vzxq

[kimchicuddles]

Last night began hod b'malchut and tonight begins yesod b'malchut, for my mishpocha who are counting with me...

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The Omer is counted every nightfall starting the 2nd night of Passover until the night before Shavuot (marking when we received the Torah). This yearly cycle of counting lasts 49 days and every nightfall has its own opportunity for reflection. Each of the 7 weeks has its own focus and each of the 7 days within each week has its own focus within that focus. During Sefirat Ha'Omer, we are invited on a mystical journey, a journey that spirals us deeper and deeper into discovering what exists within our psyches and souls…

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Malchut is said to be different than all other sefirot, a state of being rather than an action, but it also has characteristics of all the others combined... Kinda like the Captain Planet of sefirot. "with your powers combined..."

When love, discipline, compassion, endurance, humility, and bonding are all brought into balance in the human psyche, the result is malchut.

[dduerksen]

THE COUNTING OF THE OMER The seven-week (49-day) period between Passover and Shavuot is called the Omer. In the days of Ancient Israel the Jewish people would bring a barley offering to the Temple on the day after the Sabbath following Passover during the week of Unleavened Bread. (Leviticus 23:10). This was called the “Omer” (literally, “sheaf”) and in practical terms would permit the consumption of recently-harvested grains. The Torah (Leviticus 23:15) says it is a mitzvah every day to “count the Omer” – the 50 days leading up to Shavuot. This is an important period of growth and introspection, in preparation for the holiday of Shavuot which arrives 50 days later. “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. The omer is counted each evening after sundown. WHAT TO SAY One stands when counting the omer, and begins by reciting the following blessing: Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu Melekh ha’Olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tizivanu al sefirat ha’omer. Blessed are you, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the Universe, who has sanctified us with your commandments and commanded us to count the omer. Today is the ______ day of the omer. We have thus fulfilled the mitzvah of counting the Omer! The practice of counting these 49 days in anticipation for Shavuot is called the Counting of the Omer. On the 50th day, Shavuot—which commemorates the Giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai—is celebrated. The Counting of the Omer not only builds anticipation for the holiday of Shavuot, but it is also a time of spiritual refinement and personal growth. Below are daily Omer reflections for each of the 49 days of the counting. These reflections contain thoughts and exercises for personal character refinement and self-growth during this time period. With the mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha’Omer, the Torah invites us on a journey into the human psyche, into the soul. There are seven basic emotions that make up the spectrum of human experience. (At the root of all forms of https://www.instagram.com/p/CNQHt-RlwRJ/?igshid=1rzqzs6j54yrh