Today is Twenty-Five Days of the Omer • The Omer-Counting Text and a Prayer from Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Netzach sheb’Netzach
The Order of Counting the Omer:
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 a perfect unification, 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 mitzvos and commanded us concerning Counting the Omer.
Today is twenty-five days, which are three weeks and four days of the Omer
For the conductor, with melodies, a psalm, a song: May 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. Let peoples thank You, O God; let peoples thank You, all of them. Nations will rejoice and sing, for You will judge peoples with fairness, and guide nations on earth, Selah. Let peoples thank You, O God; let peoples 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 songful cry of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, Awesome One. Please, Mighty One—guard, like the apple of the eye, those who seek Your oneness. 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 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: “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 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 Counting of the Omer that I counted today, what I damaged in the sefirah Netzach sheb’Netzach 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.
Before you is a prayer written by Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Netzach sheb’Netzach, for reading and download:
Please, Master of the world—Almighty, from Whom no plan is withheld—grant me now, in the sefirah of Netzach sheb’Netzach—about which Rebbe Nachman, the holy and awesome one, said: “I have triumphed, and I will triumph”—to triumph over all the wars in the world, especially against the haters of Israel and the destroyers of Israel, the seed of Amalek, who in every generation continue to wage war against the people of Israel and to try to destroy them and wipe them out, saying: “Let the name of Israel be remembered no more”—Moav, Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tzor and Tzidon; Geval and the Hagrites; Yetur, Nafish, and Kedmah; Mishma, Dumah, and Masa. In every generation they rise up against us to annihilate us, and the Holy One, blessed is He, saves us from their hand. And every day they devise evil and new schemes to wipe us out, as that Roman official said to Rabbi Yehoshua in Pesachim 88: “The Roman nation—by this we descend and by this we ascend!” And until today—already about two thousand years—the Beis HaMikdash has still not been built. Please, Hashem: Nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled the Sanctuary of Your holiness; they have made Jerusalem into ruins. They have given the corpses of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood like water around Jerusalem, and there is none to bury. Please, Hashem: In the merit of Rebbe Nachman, the holy and awesome one—Rebbe Nachman ben Simchah ben Feigah—since today is the 10th of Iyar, of the month of Ziv—please drive away the counsel of our enemy, and let the blessing be fulfilled in us: “His king shall be raised above Agag, and his kingship shall be exalted. He shall consume the nations that oppress him; he shall crush their bones and shatter them with his arrows. He crouched, he lay like a lion and like a lioness—who will rouse him?” “He lay” + 1 = 323 has the gematria of “Blessed is Haman” = 323. And may we merit to transform all the Hamans into “blessed,” as it is written: “From among the descendants of Haman, they learned and taught Torah in Bnei Brak.” And may we transform all the evil in the world into good—darkness into light—and go out from bondage to Geulah, from gloom to illumination. And may it be fulfilled in us as it is said: “A day is coming, a day is coming, that is neither day nor night. Exalted One—make known, make known, make known—for Yours is the day, and Yours also is the night.” And may all the inhabitants of the world recognize the yoke of Your kingship, and may the verse be fulfilled in us: “For the kingship is Hashem’s, and He rules over the nations.” And: “Hashem will be King over all the earth; on that day Hashem will be One and His Name One.”
From the book that is destined to be published, with Hashem’s help, with all the prayers of The Rav shlit"a for the days of Counting the Omer For donations and dedications: 0533189062
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