49 days, seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot
25 Nisan 5773 | April 5, 2013
10th Day of the Omer
The first in time and the first in importance if the influences upon the mind is nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him? There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spriit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find---so entire, so boundless.
Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Chris Highland
Baruch Ata Adonai Elo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam a-sher ke-d-sha-nu b- mitz-vo-tav, v-tzi-va-nu al s-fi-rat ha-omer.
Praised be you Adonai our God who rules the Universe instilling within us the holiness of mitzvot by commanding us to count the Omer.
Today is the tenth day - a week and three days of the Omer.