Counting of the Omer, 2007

Week 5 Intentions

Baruch atah adonay eloheynu melech ha'olam asher kidshanu bemitzvotav vetzivanu al sefirat ha'omer.

Blessed are you, HASHEM, our God, who makes us holy with mitzvot and has commanded us to count the Omer.

Ha-yom tisha v'esrim yom, shehaym arba-a shavuot v'yom e-chad ba-omer. Today is twenty-nine days, which equals four weeks and one day of the Omer.

and then there's just the
     sweet relief that comes from
            having you listen

Will

The counting day 29
Chesed of hod



Mashpia part 11
Mashpia is an influence, a spiritual mentoring



It's remarkable how much free time
                        I have


She said, diarist and prostitute
                        After retiring


Her work became revered
                        Poet of compassion


She converted her past into clarity – what she wrote
                        Everyone believed




jsg

Ha-yom shloshim yom, shehaym arba-a shavuot ushnay yamim ba-omer. Today is thirty days, which equals four weeks and two days of the Omer.

seed globe yields to shat-
     tering winds: the dandelion
            shall inherit my lawn.

Will

The Counting Day 30

Mashpia part 12
Mashpia is an influence, a spiritual mentoring

Gevurah in Hod



Holy smokes Rothko said

Outside the lines

There is almost as much

Activity

As within


jsg

Gevurah in Hod

The man walked up to me singing
one of those tunes, like a memory
and I swear, I saw him smiling.

He said, "This is the secret,"
as he shambled in a cloud of dust
bare foot and blind.

"Be humble, remember your feet
they ain't gonna lie to you. Once,
I didn't even have a home and I saw
the ocean. I thought she was yelling,
turns out, as things often do,
she was crying. The greatest of all
the bodies, wracked with tears
from thousands of years of heroes
fooling the world how to live."

jeff briggs

Hayom e-chad u'sheloshim yom, shehaym arba-a shavuot u'shelosha yamim ba-omer. Today is thirty-one days, which equals four weeks and three days of the Omer.

O, there are colors
     here, on the right and on the
             left, in your garden.

Will

The Counting, Day 31
Tiferet in Hod


Mashpia, part 13
Mashpia is an influence, a spiritual mentoring



He spent his best days
                 Believing

If he could only make the peace prayers properly
                 Twice

The world would be as completely
                 Beautiful

As the heavenly
                 Detroit



jsg

“ Crimson and clover, over and over ”

Stephe

Ha-yom sh'nayim u'sheloshim yom, shehaym arba-a shavuot v'arba-a yamim ba-omer. Today is thirty-two days, which equals four weeks and four days of the Omer.

the bracing instant
     of decision, just before
            you dive in the pool

Will

Today is day 32 of the Counting
Netzach in Hod

Mashpia, part 14

Mashpia is an influence
A spiritual mentoring



Today is day 32 of the counting

Thirty two you said

The twenty two letters of the Hebrew alphabet

And the ten Fundamentals

What God built into creation

For us to understand




jsg

Will

Ha-yom sh'losha u'sheloshim yom, shehaym arba-a shavuot v'arba-a yamim ba-omer. Today is thirty-three days, which equals four weeks and five days of the Omer.

Hod of Hod

be content with your
      portion, which is nothing
            less than the universe

Will

Mashpia part 14
Mashpia is an influence, a spiritual mentoring

Day 33 of the Counting

Lag B'omer
The thirty third day of the Omer
Lag La'omer known among Sephardim
Also the code of resistance
During the great Jewish revolts

What I remember most
Is the picture you gave me
Of Bar Yochai
One eye smiling
One eye crying



jsg

Ha-yom arba-a u'sheloshim yom, shehaym arba-a shavuot v'shi-sha yamim ba-omer.   Today is thirty-four days, which equals four weeks and six days of the Omer

Yesod of Hod

no storage for such
      abundance; a conduit
            alone can do it.

Will

It's day 34 of the counting.

This was sent to me by a fourth grader in the congregation.

Trees
Helping the whole world
Great for climbing in the spring
Relaxed in its shade

Rebecca


jsg

Ha-yom chami-sha u'sheloshim yom, shehaym chami-sha shavuot ba-omer.  Today is thirty-five days, which equals five weeks of the Omer.

Malkut of Hod

"by morning, hear my
      voice; by morning i arrange
             before you, and watch."

Will

Elohim, I cried

In my softest whisper yet

then reverently bowed