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The Order of Sefiras HaOmer (the Counting of the Omer):

For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, Blessed be He, and His Shechinah (Divine Presence), in awe and love, to unify the Name Yud-Kei with Vav-Kei in a perfect unity, in the name of all Israel. Behold, I am prepared and ready to fulfill the positive commandment of Sefiras HaOmer (the counting of the Omer) as it is written in the Torah: "And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow of the Shabbat, from the day you bring the Omer of the wave offering; seven complete weeks shall they be. Until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count fifty days, and you shall offer a new meal-offering to Hashem." And may the pleasantness of Hashem our G-d be upon us, and may He establish the work of our hands for us; may He establish the work of our hands.

Blessed are You, Hashem our G-d, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.

Today is twenty-two days, which are three weeks and one day of the Omer.

For the conductor, with instrumental music, a psalm, a song: May G-d be gracious to us and bless us, may He cause His face to shine upon us, Selah. To know Your way on earth, Your salvation among all nations. The peoples will thank You, O G-d, all the peoples will thank You. Nations will rejoice and sing for joy, for You will judge the peoples justly and lead the nations on earth, Selah. The peoples will thank You, O G-d, all the peoples will thank You. The earth has yielded its harvest, G-d, our G-d, will bless us. G-d will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear Him.

We beseech You, by the power of Your right hand's greatness, untie the bound. Accept the prayer of Your people; strengthen us, purify us, O Awesome One. Please, O Mighty One, guard those who seek Your unity like the apple of Your eye. Bless them, purify them, may the mercy of Your righteousness always reward them. Mighty, Holy One, in Your abundant goodness, lead Your congregation. Unique, Exalted One, turn to Your people who remember Your holiness. Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom forever and ever.

Master of the Universe, You commanded us through Moses Your servant to count the Omer, in order to purify us from our klipos (spiritual husks) and our impurities, as You wrote in Your Torah: "And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow of the Shabbat, from the day you bring the Omer of the wave offering; seven complete weeks shall they be. Until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count fifty days." This is so that the souls of Your people Israel may be purified from their defilement. And so, may it be Your will, Hashem our G-d and G-d of our fathers, that in the merit of the Sefiras HaOmer that I counted today, that which I damaged in the Sefirah of Chesed shebeNetzach (Kindness within Victory/Endurance) shall be rectified, and I shall be purified and sanctified with the holiness of above. Through this, may an abundant flow of blessing be influenced upon all the worlds, to rectify our Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshamah (levels of the soul) from every dross and blemish, and to purify us and sanctify us with Your supernal holiness, Amen Sela.

Before you is a prayer written by the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for Chesed shebeNetzach, for reading and download:

Master of the Universe, Almighty One, in the merit of Rabbeinu (Rebbe Nachman) who is the aspect of the Sefirah of Netzach (Victory/Endurance), may Chesed shebeNetzach (Kindness within Victory) be established as the day of surrender in the world, the international day of surrender, the day of unconditional surrender when all the Nazis everywhere in the world surrendered. And so may we also merit to surrender to Hashem, may He be blessed, on this holy and awesome day without any conditions—a true surrender from the depths of the heart, with all the necessary regrets for all the sins of youth, from the day our souls were created until now, from the day we descended in this gilgul (reincarnation). And we have sinned from the day of our birth with invalid and forbidden thoughts; for everything, please pardon and forgive us on this awesome day. Through this, may You forgive all the sins we have committed from the day of our Bar Mitzvah until now, and on this day, may You forgive us for all sins and iniquities. In this merit, may we merit the complete Geulah (Redemption), the building of the Third Temple of fire, and the revelation of Mashiach ben David (Messiah son of David) speedily in our days, Amen Netzach Sela Va'ed.

From the book destined to see light with the help of Hashem, featuring all the prayers of our teacher the Rav shlit"a for the days of Sefiras HaOmer. For donations and dedications: 0533189062