Today is the Nineteenth Day of the Omer • A Prayer by the Gaon and Tzaddik

The Order of Counting the Omer:

For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, blessed is He, and His Shechinah, with awe and with love—so as to unify the Name Yud–Heh with Vav–Heh 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 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.” 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 nineteen days, which are two weeks and five 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 upon us, Selah. So that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. May the peoples thank You, O God; may the peoples thank You—all of them. Nations will rejoice and sing, for You will judge peoples with fairness, and guide the nations on earth, Selah. May the peoples thank You, O God; may the peoples 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—by the power of the greatness of Your right hand, release what is bound. Accept the songful cry of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Please, Mighty One—guard those who seek Your Oneness as the apple of the eye. Bless them, purify them; with the compassion of Your righteousness, always bestow upon them. Powerful and Holy One—through Your abundant goodness, lead Your congregation. Unique 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 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 Counting of the Omer that I counted today, what I damaged in the sefirah of Hod Sheb’Tiferes 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—bringing rectification to 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 that the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a wrote for Hod Sheb’Tiferes:

From the book that is destined to be published, with Hashem’s help, together with all the prayers of The Rav shlit"a for the days of Counting the Omer For donations and dedications: 0533189062: