Today is Thirty-Seven Days 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 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 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 commandments and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.

Today is thirty-seven days, which are five weeks and two 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. 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 what is bound. Accept the songful prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us—Awesome One. Please, Mighty One, guard as the apple of the eye those who seek Your unity. 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 kelipos 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 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 Gevurah Sheb’Yesod 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. 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 Gevurah Sheb’Yesod, for reading and downloading:

Master of the universe, Almighty—no plan is beyond You—grant us merit in this counting, which is the sefirah of Gevurah Sheb’Yesod: that all the colors in the world should shine within us, through our overcoming the yetzer hara. Help us fully repair the awesome kelipah of desire of the eyes, so that we will never again blemish our eyes at all, forever and ever. May we always walk with absolute shemiras einayim, and never again damage our eyes—ever. Through this, may we have no desire of the eyes anymore. And may we no longer blemish our eyes at all; rather, may we use our eyes only to see visions of God, as it is written: “The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.” The gematria of “visions of God” is the same as “A continual fire shall burn upon the altar; it shall not be extinguished” 1885. For through guarding our eyes from now on with complete vigilance, we will merit to see the great fire that burns day and night—about which it is said: “A continual fire shall burn upon the altar; it shall not be extinguished.”

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 Sefiras HaOmer For donations and dedications: 0533189062

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