Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 8 days, which is 1 week and 1 day of the Omer
Month: April 2024
Omer Learning: Day 7
Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 7 days, which is 1 week of the Omer
Omer Learning: Day 6
Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 6 days of the Omer
How to: the blessings and procedure for counting the Omer.
From Our Community:
The Torah uses the phrase ‘gathered unto his people’ in describing the death of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Aaron. I believe that is the destiny of all of us. I believe that there is a cosmic consciousness from which we are born, and to which we return when we die.
I believe that we are all part of the cosmic consciousness, even while we are alive; I sometimes sense it. If enough people believed this, perhaps there wouldn’t be so much heartlessness and hypocrisy in the world.
–Milt Hess
We’re still accepting submission to this year’s Omer Learning project. Share your own story of hope or feeling G-d’s presence here. We look forward to sharing your insights with community!
Omer Learning: Day 5
Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 5 days of the Omer
How to: the blessings and procedure for counting the Omer.
From Our Community:
When I am studying Jewish texts, especially in conversation with fellow students or in chavruta, I have the powerful feeling that I am joining in an age old conversation that God opened up at Sinai and just never really ceased. After all, the voices on the pages I study are multigenerational and full of disagreement. Each new voice brings in new contexts and ways of looking at the world and looking at the words. Now in my own generation, I’ve added my own. And in doing so, I speak back to God.
–Rav Amelia
–Rav Amelia
We’re still accepting submission to this year’s Omer Learning project. Share your own story of hope or feeling G-d’s presence here. We look forward to sharing your insights with community!
Omer Learning: Day 4
Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 4 days of the Omer
Omer Learning: Day 3
Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 3 days of the Omer
How to: the blessings and procedure for counting the Omer.
From Our Community:
For me (and this will surprise no one who knows me), I most often experience this in the theater, sometimes when I am playing piano and the music and the singers just align together perfectly, and sometimes in the audience. As an audience member, the clearest moment I can think of is the full cast of Sunday in the Park with George singing “Sunday”. If done right, it is a truly transformative moment.
Here is a link to a group of performers singing it during Covid–when we all needed this kind of content so much!
Learn More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/theater/surprise-theater-times-square.html
–Elisa Rosman
We’re still accepting submission to this year’s Omer Learning project. Share your own story of hope or feeling G-d’s presence here. We look forward to sharing your insights with community!
Omer Learning: Day 2
Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 2 days of the Omer
Omer Learning: Day 1
Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 1 day of the Omer
The Countdown to the Count
(The photo is ChatGPT’s response to: generate an image that evokes a a sense of hope.)
With Passover just around the corner, that can only mean one thing: we’ll be starting the Counting of the Omer soon! If you’re reading this message, Mazel Tov! You are officially signed up to receive the count.
We’ve received some wonderful submissions for this year’s topic: Hope and feeling G-d’s presence. Thankfully, the Counting of the Omer lasts 49 days, so we still have plenty of space for this year’s most important submission: yours.
Head over to the Omer Learning 2024 Submission Form to contribute today.
Here’s to a seasons of peace, hope and feeling G-d’s presence.
-Omer Bot