When counting, one should be careful to use the correct grammatical form (e.g., using the word yamim, days, until ten and then yom from that point on, and using the masculine form for the count of the weeks]. If one made a mistake and neglected to count either the days or the weeks, he must count again but does not recite another blessing. eight days of the omer which is one week and one day." This practice is followed until the seventh day, when we make a slight change and say: "Today is seven days which is one week of the omer".Ĭongregations that follow the Sephardic rite say: "Today is the seventh day of the omer which is one week" i.e., the word omer is always juxtaposed to the number of the day rather than to the concurrent count of weeks.įrom the seventh day on, one adds the count of weeks to the count of days e.g., "Today is eight days which is one week and one day of the omer" and the Sephardic wording is ". On the first night one says: "Today is one day of the omer" and on the second night one says: "Today is two days of the omer" day of the omer" Some congregations have a custom of saying baomer, in the omer, while others have a custom of saying laomer, of the omer. We first recite the blessing on counting the omer "Who has commanded us to count the omer"] and then count, saying: "Today is the.
If one neglected to count then, he may count throughout the night and if he forgot to count at night, he may count during the day, but without the blessing. Immediately after the Amidah, we count the omer. We first recite the evening prayers, for the mitzvah of Ma'ariv and of saying the Shema is obligatory every day and a mitzvah that is frequently obligatory takes precedence over a mitzvah that is performed less often. Since we commence counting the omer at night, we continue to count at night throughout the entire forty-nine days. The correct time for counting the omer is at the beginning of the night, for the verse states that we are to count seven complete weeks and the count can be complete only if we commence when the sixteenth of Nissan begins. Some maintain that the obligation today is Rabbinic. This mitzvah is applicable today even though the Holy Temple no longer stands and we no longer bring the omer offering. It is a mitzvah for each individual to count the days of the omer by himself, for the Torah states: And you shall count for yourselves. We actually count forty-nine days, for our Sages had a tradition that the Torah's use of the word fifty meant until the fiftieth day.
We begin our count on the second night of Passover (the night of the second Seder in the Diaspora) and continue until Shavuot, which is the fiftieth day after the offering.
These verses command us to count seven weeks from the time that the omer, the new barley offering, was brought in the Temple, i.e., from the sixteenth of Nissan. The Torah writes: "And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow of the Shabbat, from the day that you bring the omer that is raised, seven complete weeks there shall be until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count fifty days ( Leviticus 23:15-16).
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