Today is the Thirty-Fifth 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 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. Behold, I am ready and prepared to fulfill the positive mitzvah of counting the Omer, as it is written in the Torah: “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 they 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 mitzvos and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.

Today is thirty-five days, which are five weeks 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. So that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. Peoples will thank You, O God; peoples will thank You—all of them. Nations will rejoice and sing, for You will judge peoples with fairness, and guide nations on earth, Selah. Peoples will thank You, O God; peoples 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 greatness of Your right hand, release the bound. Accept the song of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Please, Mighty One—those who seek Your Oneness—guard them like the pupil of the eye. Bless them, purify them; with the compassion of Your righteousness, always repay them. Powerful Holy One, in 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 Omer, in order to purify us from our husks and from our impurities, as You wrote in Your Torah: “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 they 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 of Malchus sheb’Hod be repaired. May I be purified and sanctified with the holiness from Above, and through this may abundant shefa be drawn down in all the worlds. And may it rectify our souls, our spirits, and our neshamas from every dross and blemish, and purify us and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness, Amen, Selah.

Presented here is a prayer that Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a wrote for Malchus sheb’Hod, for reading and downloading:

Master of the universe, Almighty—nothing You plan can be withheld from You. In Malchus sheb’Hod, the very essence of the greatness of “Beis d’Abba” is revealed to us—this is the greatest mo’ach, drawn from Atika Kadisha. Grant us, on this holy and awe-inspiring day—this sefirah of Malchus sheb’Hod, which is the sefirah of Moshe Rabbeinu, peace be upon him—who anointed all the kingdoms, as it is written [Rosh Hashanah 3:8]: “Do Moshe’s hands make war, or do Moshe’s hands break war? Rather, when Israel would look upward and subjugate their hearts to their Father in Heaven, immediately—immediately—they would prevail; immediately—immediately—they would be victorious.” And throughout all the days of the Omer they are obligated to be victorious in all wars. May we merit from today to serve You with supernal mesirus nefesh, and to set everything aside for Your sake—just as Moharanat says in Likkutei Halachos: that setting everything aside for Hashem is building, not abandonment, Heaven forbid; for Hashem repays and rewards double and redoubled for every drop of mesirus nefesh that one gives for Him. And now we are in the sefirah of Malchus sheb’Hod, which is the sefirah that includes true mesirus nefesh for Him, may He be blessed.

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