Counting the Omer
Omer - Day 43
The forty-third day of counting the Omer starts Saturday, May 29th at twilight. Today makes six weeks and a day!
Omer - Day 43
The forty-third day of counting the Omer starts Saturday, May 29th at twilight. Today makes six weeks and a day!
Omer - Day 42
The forty-second day of counting the Omer starts Friday, May 19th at twilight. Today makes six weeks!
Omer - Day 42
The forty-second day of counting the Omer starts Friday, May 19th at twilight. Today makes six weeks!
Omer - Day 41
The forty-one days of counting the Omer starts Thursday, May 18th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and six days!
Omer - Day 41
The forty-one days of counting the Omer starts Thursday, May 18th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and six days!
Omer - Day 40
The forty days of counting the Omer starts Wednesday, May 17th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and five days!
Omer - Day 40
The forty days of counting the Omer starts Wednesday, May 17th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and five days!
Omer - Day 39
The thirty-nine days of counting the Omer starts Tuesday, May 16th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and four days!
Omer - Day 39
The thirty-nine days of counting the Omer starts Tuesday, May 16th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and four days!
Omer - Day 38
The thirty-eight days of counting the Omer starts Monday, May 15th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and three days!
Omer - Day 38
The thirty-eight days of counting the Omer starts Monday, May 15th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and three days!
Tips for Counting
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Count at Home
Get creative! Find something to help you keep track of days! Use marbles, black beans, paper chains, spools of thread, and ribbons tied on the fence posts! Forty-nine of anything will do!
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Days and Dates
While many traditions start the counting on different days, we take a simple reading of Leviticus 23:15 and start counting on the Saturday night after Passover, that's April 8th this year!
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Why Twilight?
In the creation story, evenings came before mornings (see Gen 1:5). Biblical days are patterned after the Genesis model so a new day starts at twilight. That is the traditional time to "count the Omer."