If you wish to follow the Counting of the Omer, there are two resources available for you. The first was written by Max Amichai Heppner – or second, you may choose the more conservative version written by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.
Thursday, April 15, 2021 – 3 Iyar 5781 – Omer day 18 – Yom Ha’Atzmaut
Tazria: Leviticus 12:1 – 13:59
Metzora: Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33
The Lord speaks to Moses regarding sexual conduct and the laws of sexual morality.
Receive your own body, honor your own sexuality, and open to God as a partner, lover, and friend. In the process, you touch a part of humanity that commingles with the benevolent energies of a loving God and creates ecstatic, joyous living. (Creativity, p. 275)
Friday, April 16, 2021 – 4 Iyar 5781 – Omer day 19
Tazria: Leviticus 12:1 – 13:59
Metzora: Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33
“You are holy; for I, YHVH, your God, am holy.”
You are holy regardless of what you think, say, or do. You are holy because you are born of God. (Intention, p. 52)
Saturday, April 17, 2021 – 5 Iyar 5781 – Omer day 20
Tazria: Leviticus 12:1 – 13:59
Metzora: Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33
Open your mind, free your brain, and regard the smallest, most trivial actions as though they were both the means and the goals by which you and God derive pleasure from each other. (Glory, p. 257)
Sunday, April 18, 2021 – 6 Iyar 5781 – Omer day 21
Ahare Mot: Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30
Kedoshim: Leviticus 19:1 – 20:27
God tells Moses to speak to the Israelites, saying “I have set you apart from other peoples to be Mine.”
God’s love is not exclusive. This love does not discriminate between peoples, traditions, cultures, or even religions. God’s love is inclusive of all creation, in all time, in every way. For all is in God, and God is in everything and everyone. (Compassion, p. 119)
Monday, April 19, 2021 – 7 Iyar 5781 – Omer day 22
Ahare Mot: Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30
Kedoshim: Leviticus 19:1 – 20:27
“Such is Holiness. I am Adonai, the Lord who makes you Holy.”
There is holiness in all of existence. Holiness cannot be seen, yet sees all. It cannot be touched, yet touches all. It cannot be heard, yet its melody sings throughout creation. It is both in the world and of the world. Holiness is being in union with God and encountering spiritual union in all dimensions of life. (Intention, p. 52)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 – 8 Iyar 5781 – Omer day 23
Ahare Mot: Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30
Kedoshim: Leviticus 19:1 – 20:27
Moses speaks to the sons of Aaron, giving additional laws for the priesthood and priestly behavior.
The greatest self-bondage is to forget you are of noble birth and majestic lineage. (Nobility, p. 298)
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 – 9 Iyar 5781 – Omer day 24
Ahare Mot: Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30
Kedoshim: Leviticus 19:1 – 20:27
Meditation on Remaining Conscious
Pause a moment and move your attention into your breath. As you move into the awareness of this moment, become conscious of your activities during the day thus far. Acknowledge those thoughts, words, and actions which were joined in partnership with your Divinity, and those moments when you may have lost consciousness of this partnership. Use your imagination to change anything you may have wanted to change in your own thoughts, words, and actions today. (Glory, p. 238)
