Counting the Omer
Experience 49 Days of Personal Transformation: The 7 week period between Passover and Shavuot, called Counting the Omer, is a powerful span of time, which empowers us to refine our lives and elevate our souls. The spectrum of human emotions divide into 49 different attributes, each one corresponding to one day in this 49-day period.
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To go from narrow-mind confinement to mind-blowing expansion is no easy task. To go from Egypt to Sinai, the person must transform his Egypt mentality into the disposition of Sinai. The person has seven weeks to do so, forty-nine days, from the exodus from Egypt to the receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Every one of the forty-nine days the person works on another attribute, refining, honing, preparing. The person counts his progress until the day – the day when the follower that was becomes the leader that is.
Your Guide to Personal Freedom Counting the Omer: Week Four
During the fourth week of counting the Omer, we examine and refine the emotional attribute of endurance known as Netzach.
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Your Guide to Personal Freedom Counting the Omer: Week Five
During the fifth week of counting the Omer, we examine and refine the emotional attribute of Hod or humility.
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Your Guide to Personal Freedom Counting the Omer: Week Six
During the sixth week of counting the Omer, we examine and refine the emotional attribute of Yesod or bonding.
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Your Guide to Personal Freedom Counting the Omer: Week Seven
During the seventh and final week of counting the Omer, we examine and refine the attribute of Malchut – nobility, sovereignty and leadership.
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What is the Counting of the Omer?
“Sefirat Ha’Omer” (the Counting of the Omer), expresses a Jew’s eager anticipation of receiving the Torah on Shavuot, forty nine days after experiencing the liberation of Passover.
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The Journey
Beginning with the second night of Passover, we count the days traversed from the Exodus, chronicling the milestones and stations of our journey of self-refinement.
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Seeking the Week
The Omer count corresponds to the forty-nine elements of the heart, which consist of seven “weeks,” each comprised of seven “days.”
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Running After You
Every Passover, we are again showered with a unilateral outpouring of divine love, as G-d again draws us to Him. This is followed by the forty-nine day sefirah (“count”), in which we again climb the forty-nine rungs of our psyche.
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Forty Nine Days
Counting the Omer: Each of these days becomes a component of our reborn selves, as we internalize the freedom obtained at the Exodus as the essence of our commitment to G-d as His chosen people.
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The Daily Special: The Hebrew Month of Iyar
The Hebrew month of Iyar, whose 29 days fall somewhere in the months of April and May, is unique in that it combines both specialty and consistency in a single mitzvah. The mitzvah is the commandment to “Count the Omer”.
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