It feels like we’ve been counting the Omer for around seven months now. Though the formal Jewish ritual of rattling off seven weeks began the second night of Passover, ever since Oct. 7, the somber ...
“You shall count from the second day of Passover, when an Omer of grain is to be brought as an offering, seven complete weeks. The day after the seventh week of your counting will make fifty days.” — ...
On April 1, which was the second day of Passover, we started the 50 days of counting the Omer, which will end with the holiday of Shavuot in May. Omer is a sheaf of barley, with a “sheaf” being one ...