Today is the Forty-Sixth Day of the Omer • The Omer-Counting Text and a Prayer

The Order of the Omer-Counting Text (Sefard):

For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shechinah, with awe and with love—to unify the Name Y-H with V-H in perfect unity, 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 wave-offering—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.” And 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-six days, which are six weeks and four days of the Omer

For the Conductor, with melodies—a psalm, a song: God be gracious to us and bless us; may He shine His face with us, Selah. That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. Let peoples thank You, O God; let all peoples thank You. Nations will rejoice and sing, for You will judge peoples with fairness, and guide the nations on earth, Selah. Let peoples thank You, O God; let all peoples thank You. 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 greatness of Your right hand, release the bound. Accept the songful cry 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 mercies of Your righteousness, always bestow upon them. Powerful, Holy One, in 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 Counting of 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 wave-offering—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 Counting of the Omer that I counted today, what I damaged in the sefirah Netzach Sheb’Malchus 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—repairing our souls, our spirits, and our neshamas from every dross and blemish, and purifying us and sanctifying us with Your supernal holiness. Amen, Selah.

Presented here is a prayer written by the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Netzach Sheb’Malchus, 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 Counting the Omer For donations and dedications: 0533189062

Master of the universe, Almighty—no plan is beyond You. Grant me now, in the sefirah of Netzach Sheb’Malchus, the power to prevail over all the Sefiros in which the Sitra Achra still has a hold, and through which—God forbid—it can cause us to sin. Please, Hashem, grant Moshiach ben David merit in this sefirah, Netzach Sheb’Malchus, to defeat the entire Sitra Achra, just as David defeated Goliath. And may we—our sons and our daughters, and all Your people, the House of Israel, all of them—merit to see eye to eye the holy victory of kedushah over the Sitra Achra. Let no force of the powers of impurity have any ability to confuse our thoughts. Instead, may we always have holy, pure thoughts—clear and spotless as white snow—as it is written, “and flowing from Lebanon,” from the whiteness of the mind. [embeddoc url="https://www.shuvubanimint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/מה-נצח-שבמלכות.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"]