Today Is Forty-One Days of the Omer • The Omer-Counting Text and a Prayer from the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Yesod Sheb’Yesod
The Order of the Omer-Counting Text (Sefard):
For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, blessed is He, and His Shechinah, with awe and with love—to unify the Name Y–H with V–H in a complete unification, in the name of all Israel. I am hereby ready and prepared to fulfill the positive mitzvah of counting the Omer, as it is written in the Torah: “And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow of the Shabbos, from the day you bring the Omer of the waving—seven complete weeks shall there be. Until the morrow of the seventh Shabbos you shall count fifty days, and you shall bring a new meal-offering to Hashem.” “May the pleasantness of Hashem our God be upon us; establish for us the work of our hands—establish the work of our hands.”
Blessed are You, Hashem our God, King of the universe, Who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.
Today is forty-one days, which are five weeks and six days of the Omer.
For the conductor, with melodies—a psalm, a song: God will favor us and bless us; He will shine His face with us, Selah. To make Your way known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. Nations will thank You, O God; nations will thank You—all of them. Peoples will rejoice and sing, for You will judge nations with fairness, and guide peoples on earth, Selah. Nations will thank You, O God; nations will thank You—all of them. The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God, will bless us. God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear Him.
Ana B’Koach—With the power of Your right hand’s greatness, release what is bound. Accept the songful prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Please, Mighty One—those who seek Your Oneness—guard them like the apple of the eye. Bless them, purify them; with the compassion of Your righteousness, always reward them. Powerful, Holy One—through Your abundant goodness—lead Your congregation. Singular and Exalted One—turn to Your people, those who remember Your holiness. Blessed is the Name of the glory of His kingship forever and ever.
Master of the universe, You commanded us through Moshe Your servant to count the Omer, in order to purify us from our husks and from our impurities, as You wrote in Your Torah: “And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow of the Shabbos, from the day you bring the Omer of the waving—seven complete weeks shall there be. Until the morrow of the seventh Shabbos you shall count fifty days”—so that the souls of Your people Israel may be purified from their defilement. Therefore, may it be Your will, Hashem our God and God of our fathers, that in the merit of the Omer-counting that I counted today, what I damaged in the sefirah Yesod Sheb’Yesod be repaired; and may I be purified and sanctified with the holiness from Above. Through this, may abundant shefa be drawn down in all the worlds. And may it repair our souls, our spirits, and our neshamas from every dross and blemish; and may it purify us and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness, amen selah.
Presented here is a prayer written by the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Yesod Sheb’Yesod, for reading and downloading: From the book that is destined to be published, with Hashem’s help, containing all the prayers of The Rav shlit"a for the days of Sefiras HaOmer For donations and dedications: 0533189062
Master of the universe, Almighty—no plan is beyond You—grant us the merit to draw down the lights of Creation in this sefirah, Yesod Sheb’Yesod, from the “Unknowable Head” (Reisha d’Lo Ityada). And may we not cause further damage, Heaven forbid, for “His surroundings are exceedingly stormy.” And may it be fulfilled within us, in this sefirah—Merciful Father—that the two great luminaries be rectified through the sefirah of Yesod d’Yesod. For within this sefirah the Hidden Light is concealed—like in the cleft of the rock, which is the place where the Hidden Light was concealed. For then, in Yesod Sheb’Yesod, we subdue “the fleeing serpent and the twisting serpent, and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea”—these are the three great dragons that lie in ambush for each and every person, and they take hold most strongly in the sefirah of Yesod. Therefore it is upon us to subdue them—to break them and to drive them away—like Rav Acha bar Yaakov, who cast down the seven-headed serpent and brought down all its heads.
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