Ruth (aka, Lauren Deutsch) to which I had added the 42nd day of the Omer. I adapted the Sefirot HaOmer calendar chart above from an earlier work, the Sefirot HaOmer Chart of Lieba B. May it purify and sanctify us with your most precious holiness. May I be purified and sanctified with the holiness of Above,Īnd through this may abundant shefa flow through all the worlds.Īnd may it heal our lives, spirits, and souls from all impurity and impairment. These words appear below each stanza, and it is customary to look at or visualize these, and not to pronounce them.
DAYS OF THE OMER SERIES
You can learn more about my take on Ana b’Khoaḥ as it relates to the Omer, here.Ī Divine Name is formed by the first letters of אָנָּא בְּכֹחַ, the acrostic being formed of the first letters of a series of angelic names (attested in the kabbalistic tomes Sefer haQanah and Sefer haPeliah). You can listen to different melodies for Ana b’Khoaḥ at. Counting each word together with the seven acronyms formed from the first letter of each line yields forty-nine words to correspond with each day of the Omer.
Ana b’Khoaḥ contains seven lines and forty-two words, with each initial letter forming a 42-letter name of G‽Δ. Many of the themes of Psalms 67 are repeated in this prayer. Also make sure to take note of the Karaite tradition of beginning their calendar year with the first observation of ripe barley.Īfter Psalms 67 is read, many recite the 42-letter divine name acrostic piyyut and teḥinah (petitionary prayer), Ana b’Khoaḥ. I share in an ancient deep apprehension whether the fields will yield a healthy and abundant crop and whether the pregnant animals will safely give birth to their offspring. Just as the winter ends in fits and starts, my psyche seeks some natural rhythm to guide it along with the rest of Nature into wakefulness. Rather, I see the seven weeks as a seven walled maze or labyrinth. In my practice, I reflect on the Sefirat Ha’Omer as neither a linear progression, nor as a spiraling ascent towards Shavuot. Making it all the way through seven weeks without missing a day is not easy for most of us! Hence, the proliferation of calendars, websites, and apps for counting the Omer.
What that means is that if you go one whole night and day without counting, the halakhah is to no longer say the blessing. The biggest challenge of counting the Omer is that it is one long mitsvah lasting 49 days.
DAYS OF THE OMER PLUS
After the blessing the day is counted by absolute number and by its number within each week, i.e., “Today is the thirty-third day of the Omer, which is four weeks and five days” – that’s Lag Ba’omer ( lamed plus gimel, ל + ג = 33). The Omer count is made starting the evening of each day – when the count happens at night the blessing is said and when the count happens during the daytime the blessing is not said.
Just as that cycle is one of resetting society’s clock to align ourselves with freedom and with the needs of the land, this cycle too is a chance to align ourselves with the rhythms of spring and the spiritual freedom represented by the Torah. That makes the Omer period a miniature version of the Shmitah and Yovel (Jubilee) cycle of 7 cycles of seven years. A possible reason why there is a custom not to shave or cut our hair during this time is to pray with our bodies for the growth of the wheat.Įach day between the beginning of Passover and Shavuot gets counted, 49 days in all, 7 weeks of seven days. During the time the Omer was counted, barley from each week would be brought into the Temple and waved as an offering, really as a prayer that the harvest would come in successfully. Varady Sefirat ha'Omer Nirtsah neo-lurianic ספירת העומר sefirat haomer ספירות sephirot eco-conscious barley wheat counting growing apprehension watchfulness trepidation growth ecoḥasidĮxplaining the mitsvah of Sefirat HaOmer, Rabbi David Seidenberg writes:Įvery night during the Omer we say a blessing for doing a mitsvah and then say the count which leads us from Passover to Shavuot, from the barley harvest to the wheat harvest and, ultimately, to the first offering on Shavuot itself of wheat from the new harvest, in the form of 12 loaves. Just as that cycle is one of resetting society's clock to align ourselves with freedom and with the needs of the land, this cycle too is a chance to align ourselves with the rhythms of spring and the spiritual freedom represented by the Torah.
That makes the omer period a miniature version of the Shmitah and Yovel (Jubilee) cycle of 7 cycles of seven years. סֵדֶר סְפִירַת הָעֹמֶר | Seder Sefirat ha-Omer :: the Order of Counting the Omer between Pesaḥ and Shavuot 15:53:57 Each day between the beginning of Passover and Shavuot gets counted, 49 days in all, 7 weeks of seven days.
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