Today is Thirty-One Days of the Omer • The Omer-Counting Text and a Prayer from the holy gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Tiferes sheb’Hod
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—so as to unify the Name Y-H with V-H in perfect unity, 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-offering—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.” 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 Counting the Omer.
Today is thirty-one days, which are four 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. So that Your way 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—by the power of Your right hand’s greatness, release what is bound. Accept the song of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Please, Mighty One—guard, like the apple of the eye, those who seek Your unity. Bless them, purify them; with the mercies of Your righteousness, always repay them. Strong 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 kingdom forever and ever.
Master of the world, You commanded us through Moshe Your servant to count the Counting of the Omer, in order to purify us from our kelipos 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-offering—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 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 Tiferes sheb’Hod 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 rectify our souls, our spirits, and our neshamas from every dross and blemish; purify us and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness. Amen, Selah.
Presented here is a prayer that the holy gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a wrote for Tiferes sheb’Hod, for reading and downloading:
Please, Master of the world, Almighty—grant me merit in Tiferes sheb’Hod: garments of karpas, white linen, and argaman (royal purple), as it is said about Mordechai the tzaddik: “And Mordechai went out from before the king in royal apparel of techeiles and white linen, with a great golden crown, and a wrap of fine linen and argaman.” And may we merit, through Tiferes sheb’Hod, wealth—like that of King Achashverosh, whose gematria is Rebbe Nachman ben Simchah: “In the courtyard of the garden of the king’s palace—white linen, karpas, and techeiles, held with cords of fine linen and argaman upon silver rods and pillars of marble; couches of gold and silver upon a pavement of bahat and marble and dar and socheres.” And may we merit, through Tiferes sheb’Hod, the level of Queen Esther, who was greenish; therefore we eat karpas on the night of the Seder. And as is written in Torah 12—that she merited the “green line” that renews months. Like Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who corresponds to the sefirah of Hod; and as the Targum says: ‘Upon its sides—like paved crystal and marble, and rows of the great sea’s cities, and fortified ovens; they surround them round and round.’ As it is written: “Your cheeks are comely with rows, your neck with strings. We will make you rows of gold with points of silver. The beams of our houses are cedars, our panels are cypresses. I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys”—for the rose is the “green line,” which the true Tzaddik merits, who is called the “green line that renews months.”
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
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