Today is Day 46. Tonight’s count is below.
From Irene Bleiweiss [5770]
Have you been counting the omer with feeling? My feelings during the
omer period can include frustration, exuberance, and everything in
between. So I imagine that Count Von Count, the Sesame Street muppet,
is counting the omer with me in this video. Actually, he looks a little
bit like Uncle Moshe. And is that Hashem providing the thunder sound
effects?
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During evening prayers, add:
A) (Address for God:) Barukh ata YHVH, eloheinu melekh ha-olam, asher kidshanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al sefirat ha-omer.
We praise You, Adonai, Our God, Master of time and space whose commandments add holiness to our lives, Who commanded us to count the omer.
B) (Address God as feminine:) Beruchah at yah, eloheinu ruach haolam, asher kidshatnu bemitzvoteha vetzivatnu al sefirat ha’omer.
Blessed are You, God, Ruler/Spirit of the Universe, who has sanctified us with Your commandments and commanded us to count the Omer.
Ha-yom shivah v’arba’im yom, shehem shishah sh’vuot v’chamishah yamim la’omer.
Today is day forty-seven, making six weeks and five days of the omer.
[This translation and transliteration was borrowed from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and from Jill Hammer's Omer Calendar of Biblical Women at RitualWell.org. For additional text to accompany the counting, see Five Steps.]
