Deft of image and reference, engaging and provocative, meditative and surprising, this collection is like a small purse of jewels. Rachel Barenblat has gifted her readers with a set of insightful poems to accompany our journey through the wilderness during the Counting of the Omer. Use these poems to deepen your own practice as we move together through this seven-week corridor of holy time. Here are 49 poems, one for each day of the Omer, accompanied by helpful Omer-counting materials. Kabbalistic (mystical) and Mussar (personal refinement) traditions offer lenses through which we can examine ourselves as we prepare ourselves to receive Torah anew at Shavuot. Now as we count the days we prepare an internal harvest of reflection, discernment, and readiness. Once we counted the days between the Pesach barley offering and the Shavuot wheat offering at the Temple in Jerusalem. Through counting the Omer, we link liberation with revelation. The Omer is the period of 49 days between Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot. I hope you'll consider picking up a copy of mine. There are a lot of excellent Omer books which offer teachings or meditations for each day of the seven weeks between these two festivals. Counting the days (and spending some time each day focusing on teachings aimed at deepening my experience of the counting) has become something I look forward to each year. The Omer is one of my favorite seasons of the Jewish year. The first seder is four weeks from tonight, which means that four weeks from tomorrow night we'll begin counting the Omer - mindfully marking the 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot, between liberation and revelation. May the Counting of the Omer be a blessing for you, and may it help you open your heart to revelation!
COUNTING THE OMER 2015 FREE
Feel free to bookmark this page and return to it during each day of the Omer (and/or to pick up a copy of the collection and use the book as part of your Omer counting practice - it's available for $12 on Amazon.) Here are my 49 Omer poems collected in one place, for ease of navigation. In 2016 those poems were collected and published (sometimes in revised form) in the collection Toward Sinai: Omer Poems. In 2015 I wrote poems for each day of the Omer - the 49-day journey between Pesach and Shavuot, between liberation and revelation. We hope these new prayer-poems uplift you on your journey toward Sinai. Shared with deepest thanks to collaborators and co-creators Trisha Arlin, R.
COUNTING THE OMER 2015 PDF
You can find all of this (in PDF form, and also as google slides) here at Builders Blog. I also wrote an adaptation of a classical prayer before counting the Omer, and we co-wrote a kind of cento, a collaborative poem made (mostly) of lines from our other pieces woven-together, for the end of the journey. (I got hod, the week of humility and splendor.)
This time, seven members of Bayit's Liturgical Arts Working Group wanted to co-create together.
COUNTING THE OMER 2015 PLUS
Here are seven new prayer-poems for that journey, one for each week - plus a prayer before counting, and a closing piece that integrates the journey before Shavuot - from Bayit: Building Jewish: Step by Step / Omer 5782. On Saturday night at second seder we'll begin counting the Omer: the 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot, between liberation and revelation.
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