Today is Thirty-Three 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 be 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-offering—seven complete weeks shall there 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-three days, which are four weeks and five days, 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 those who seek Your oneness as the apple of the eye. Bless them, purify them; with the compassion 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 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-offering—seven complete weeks shall there 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 Hod sheb’Hod 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—repairing our souls, our spirits, and our neshamas from every dross and blemish, and purifying us and sanctifying us with Your supernal holiness. Amen, Selah.

Presented here is a prayer written by the holy gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Hod sheb’Hod — Lag BaOmer, for reading and download:

A flame of fire for the sake of Hashem, blessed be He—for Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is fire within fire, entirely fire, from the moment he was born until the day of his passing: “I was bound in one bond.” For through Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, all sins are forgiven for one who does true, complete teshuvah, as it is written: “Remember these, Yaakov and Israel, for you are My servant; I formed you—you are a servant to Me; Israel, I will not forget you. I have erased your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to Me, for I have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for Hashem has acted; shout, depths of the earth; burst into song, mountains—forest and every tree within it—for Hashem has redeemed Yaakov, and in Israel He will be glorified.” And it will yet be heard: “The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of a groom and the voice of a bride, the voice of those who say: ‘Give thanks to Hashem Tzevaos, for Hashem is good, for His kindness is forever,’ bringing a thanksgiving-offering to the House of Hashem—for I will restore the captivity of the land as at first, says Hashem Tzevaos. In the cities of the mountain, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the Negev, and in the land of Binyamin, and around Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Yehudah—flocks will again pass under the hands of one who counts them, says Hashem. Behold, days are coming, says Hashem, when I will establish the good word that I spoke concerning the House of Israel and concerning the House of Yehudah. In those days and at that time, I will cause for David a sprout of righteousness to grow, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.”

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 Sefiras HaOmer For donations and dedications: 0533189062

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