49 days, seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot
27 Iyar 5773 | May 7, 2013
42nd Day of the Omer
Choosing is as continuous as living. Alongside the instincts of breathing and blinking and the beating of the heart is the very human imperative to choose. Daily, moment-by-moment, life is a sequence of choices. We choose to act or not, to react or not. What we believe, how we feel, boredom, passion, and kindness don't merely happen to us, they are all choices we make. Choosing is our ability to control and order our days. Not choosing throws us into the willy-nilly land of happenstance.
Rabbi Karyn D. 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 forty-second day - six weeks of the Omer.