49 days, seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot
9 Iyar 5773 | April 19, 2013
24th Day of the Omer
Let our sorrow teach us compassion. Let our tears compel us to ease the pain of another. Let our sense of mortality make our lives stand for something great. When we love our neighbor, we transcend. When we love the stranger, we transcend. When we remove the obstacle before the blind, we transcend. When we pursue peace, we transcend. When we hold the world as a vessel of grace, we transcend. And behold, it is our bodies that enable us to walk through this world with hands that heal and arms that embrace and minds curious for understanding and solutions. We walk through this world with eyes that see possibility and ears that hear the voice of another and mouths that speak with benevolence. It is our physical nature that gives us the potential to enlighten and love and care. This is how we make life better, safer, stronger.
Rabbi Karyn Kedar
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 twenty-fourth day - three weeks and three days of the Omer.