Counting the Omer

Omer - Day 37

The thirty-seven days of counting the Omer starts Sunday, May 14th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and two days! 

Omer - Day 37

The thirty-seven days of counting the Omer starts Sunday, May 14th at twilight. Today makes five weeks and two days! 

Omer - Day 36

The thirty-six days of counting the Omer starts Saturday, May 13th at twilight. That's five weeks and a day! 

Omer - Day 36

The thirty-six days of counting the Omer starts Saturday, May 13th at twilight. That's five weeks and a day! 

Omer - Day 35

The thirty-five days of counting the Omer starts Friday, May 12th at twilight. That's five weeks! 

Omer - Day 35

The thirty-five days of counting the Omer starts Friday, May 12th at twilight. That's five weeks! 

Omer - Day 34

The thirty-four days of counting the Omer starts Thursday, May 11th at twilight. That's four weeks and six days!

Omer - Day 34

The thirty-four days of counting the Omer starts Thursday, May 11th at twilight. That's four weeks and six days!

Omer - Day 33

The thirty-three days of counting the Omer starts Wednesday, May 10th at twilight. That's four weeks and five days!

Omer - Day 33

The thirty-three days of counting the Omer starts Wednesday, May 10th at twilight. That's four weeks and five days!

Omer - Day 32

The thirty-two days of counting the Omer starts Tuesday, May 9th at twilight. That's four weeks and four days!

Omer - Day 32

The thirty-two days of counting the Omer starts Tuesday, May 9th at twilight. That's four weeks and four days!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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."