49 days, seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot
11 Iyar 5773 | April 21, 2013
26th Day of the Omer
The moving finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on: nor all the piety nor all the wit
Can cancel half a line.
Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
Omer Khayyam, Rubiyat
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-sixth day - three weeks and five days of the Omer.