Today is Twenty-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 a complete 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—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 G-d be upon us; establish for us the work of our hands—establish the work of our hands.

Blessed are You, Hashem our G-d, King of the universe, Who sanctified us with His mitzvos and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.

Today is twenty-seven days, which are three weeks and six days of the Omer

For the conductor, with melodies, a psalm—a song: May G-d favor 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 G-d; let all peoples thank You. Nations will rejoice and sing, for You will judge peoples with fairness, and guide nations on earth, Selah. Let peoples thank You, O G-d; let all peoples thank You. The earth has yielded its produce; G-d, our G-d, will bless us. G-d 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 prayer 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—lead Your congregation with Your abundant goodness. Singular 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 Omer, in order to purify us from our husks 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 there be. Until the morrow of the seventh Shabbos you shall count fifty days.” So that the souls of Your people Israel will be purified from their defilement. Therefore, may it be Your will, Hashem our G-d and G-d of our fathers, that in the merit of the Omer-counting that I counted today, what I damaged in the sefirah of Yesod within Netzach 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 repair 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 written by Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Hod within Netzach, for reading and download:

Master of the world, Almighty One, from Whom no plan is withheld—at this time, Yesod within Netzach: merit me to purify our souls, our spirits, our neshamas, our chayah, our yechidah, from every kind of impurity in the world. Purify us, through this sefirah—Yesod within Netzach—from all dross and blemish.

And may we merit, through this sefirah, to “prevail with You,” and to prevail in all our battles. May we merit, through this sefirah, to prevail over all our enemies and those who hate us, as it is written: “I will pursue my enemies and overtake them, and I will not turn back until I have consumed them… The pangs of death encompassed me, and torrents of wickedness terrified me.” “The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon Hashem, and to my G-d I cried; He heard my voice from His Sanctuary, and my cry entered His ears. From the brightness before Him coals of fire blazed. Hashem thundered from Heaven, and the Most High gave forth His voice. He sent arrows and scattered them; lightning, and He confounded them. The channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were uncovered at Hashem’s rebuke. He sent from on high and took me; He drew me from many waters. He saved me from my mighty enemy, from those who hate me, for they were stronger than I. They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but Hashem was a support for me. He brought me out to expansiveness… for I guarded the ways of Hashem and did not act wickedly against my G-d. For all His judgments were before me, and I did not turn aside from His statutes. And Hashem repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the purity of my hands before His eyes.”

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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