Today is Thirty-Eight Days of the Omer • The Omer-Counting Text and a Prayer by Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Tiferes 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 perfect unity, in the name of all Israel. 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 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 mitzvos and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.
Today is thirty-eight days, which are five weeks and three 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 greatness of Your right hand, release what is bound. Accept the song of Your people; strengthen us, purify us—Awesome One. Please, Mighty One, guard those who seek Your Oneness like the apple of the eye. Bless them, purify them; with the compassion of Your righteousness, always repay them. Powerful and 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 Tiferes Sheb’Yesod be repaired. Purify me and sanctify me with the holiness from Above, and 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 purify us and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness. Amen, Selah.
Presented here is a prayer that Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a wrote for Tiferes Sheb’Yesod, for reading and download:
Master of the universe, Almighty—before Whom no plan is impossible—grant us, in this counting, which is the sefirah of Tiferes Sheb’Yesod, to reach completion in the quality of Yesod at the very peak of wholeness—such wholeness as has never existed since the creation of the world. And open for me today, in this sefirah, all the gates of holiness, the thirty-two paths of wisdom, and the fifty gates of understanding. Through this, may I merit to be complete in the quality of Yesod with a perfection that has never existed from time immemorial.
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 the Omer-counting For donations and dedications: 0533189062
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