49 days, seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot
29 Nisan 5773 | April 9, 2013
14th Day of the Omer
You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own. But it is different from the religiosity of the naïve man. For the latter, God is a being from whose care one hopes to benefit and whose punishment one fears; a sublimation of a feeling similar to that of child for tits father...
The scientist is possessed by a sense of universal causation... His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligences of such superiority that, compared with it all systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection... it is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.
Albert Einstein, The Quotable Einstein, ed. Alice Calaprice
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 fourteenth day - two weeks of the Omer.