Today is Twenty-Six Days of the Omer • The Omer-Counting Text and a Prayer from the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Hod Sheb’Netzach
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 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 twenty-six days, which are three weeks and five 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. So that Your way may be 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 power of Your right hand’s greatness, release the bound. Accept the song of Your people; strengthen us, purify us—Awesome One. Please, Mighty One, guard like the pupil of an eye those who seek Your Oneness. Bless them, purify them; with the compassion of Your righteousness, always reward 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 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 Hod Sheb’Netzach 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 HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Hod Sheb’Netzach, for reading and download:
Master of the universe, Almighty—grant me, in the merit of the sefirah of Hod Sheb’Netzach, to prevail in all battles, and to remove all barriers, so that there will no longer be any barrier separating between me and holiness. And may I merit to reveal the Hod of Hashem, as it is written: “Magnify Hashem with me, and let us exalt His Name together.” And “with me (iti)” is the sod of the “cleft of the rock” that is revealed in Hod Sheb’Netzach. For Eliyahu wanted to reach the cleft of the rock; Hashem told him that this is impossible—only Moshe merited to reach the cleft of the rock. Instead, he should go to all the brisos and try, all his days, to be like a newborn child, as it is said: “Like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.” “I will pursue my enemies and overtake them, and I will not return until I have consumed them.” “In Hashem my soul will praise itself; the humble will hear and rejoice.” And then: “Magnify Hashem with me, and let us exalt His Name together” (34). “With me (iti)” is the sod of the cleft of the rock—“Behold, there is a place with Me, and you shall stand there upon the rock.” And then Moshe Rabbeinu received the sod of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy: there is no sin in the world that Hashem will not agree to annul—provided a person returns in complete, true teshuvah. Then he will merit genuine holiness and purity forever and ever, and he will merit to prevail in all battles.
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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