Today is Thirty-Six Days of the Omer • The Omer-Counting Text and a Prayer from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Chesed Sheb’Yesod
The Order of the Omer-Counting Text (Sefard):
For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shechinah, with awe and with love—to unify the Name Y-H with V-H in complete 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-six days, which are five weeks and one day, of the Omer
For the conductor, with stringed instruments, a psalm—a song: God be gracious to us and bless us; may He shine His face with us, Selah. That Your way be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. The peoples will thank You, O God; the 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. The peoples will thank You, O God; the 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 song 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 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 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 contamination. 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 Chesed Sheb’Yesod 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 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 written by the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Chesed Sheb’Yesod, for reading and downloading:
Master of the universe, Almighty—through the merit of Chesed Sheb’Yesod, reveal to us all the secrets of the Torah. For today we are repairing the sefirah of Yesod in complete wholeness, and through this all the surrounding lights (Oros HaMakifin) are drawn down at the peak of perfection—something Adam HaRishon did not merit. For he ruined everything by eating from the Tree of Knowledge, and then the sefirah of Yesod was completely damaged; it became “a desire to the eyes,” and, Heaven forbid, there would have been no recovery for the enemies of Israel—until Moshe Rabbeinu, peace be upon him, came. He was Yesod d’Abba, and he repaired the sefirah of Yesod in complete wholeness. He established the sockets of the Mishkan, and through this the generality of all colors was drawn down through the skins of the tachash, which included all colors. For when we repair the sefirah of Yesod, all the colors shine with precious lights—these are the lights of the twelve stones of the Choshen, which illuminated with every color in the world. And through this they merited the complete revelation of the Malchus of Hashem.
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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