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From Svivah:
Join us as we move through the seven weeks of the omer — a 49-day journey between Passover and Shavuot.

Beginning Monday, April 21, join SVIVAH and Naama Sadan for a gentle weekly gathering with a focus for the week — inspired by the colors of springtime and the omer.

Mondays 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, and 5/26.

No experience needed. No pressure, just presence.Please bring a pen, paper, and warm drink.Let’s start our week together as we move through these weeks of the Omer.

And please invite a friend to join us!

Register: https://www.svivah.org/gatherings/omer2025

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Judaism #Jewish #Omer

Coloring the Omer Together with Naama Sadan
Weekly inspiration, grounding, and connection
https://www.svivah.org/gatherings

Join us for a weekly reflection and opportunity to focus on a piece of ourselves.
Mondays at 12: to 12:45 PM ET

Open yourself for a profound & transformative spiritual journey with this self-guided workbook for Counting the Omer!. 49 thought-provoking questions for each day of the Omer. We start counting the Omer the 2nd night of Passover (April 13th)! #Judaism #Passover #Omer ravjill.com/journey-2025/

Journey: An Omer Workbook.

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From Rabbi Jill:
This four-session course is for anyone who is seeking to more deeply understand their own personal journey.

Everyone is welcome - you don’t have to be Jewish or Jewishly knowledgeable.

Please note that when you register for this course the Journey Workbook is included.

Or, you can DIY your Omer by just ordering the workbook:
https://ravjill.com/journey-2025

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Judaism #Jewish #Omer #Passover #Pesach

Awakening Your Soul: The Omer Journey
A Four Session Course with Rabbi Jill Zimmerman
Path with Heart Community
ravjill.com/journey2025-course

We meet online in a warm, inclusive community and engage in meaningful guided discussions. Through the use of Jewish texts and poetry, Rabbi Jill will help you to explore the seven distinct stages of spiritual journeying and apply them to your own life’s journey.

This workbook was created as a self-guided spiritual journey or in conjunction with Rabbi Jill’s annual Omer Course. It will help you to determine:

What journey are you on right now?

Who will you be on the other sid eof the unknown?

What have you learned from your past life experiences of confronting doubt and fear that you can apply now?

Where have you found joy and refuge amidst struggle?

There are 49 thought-provoking prompts - one for each day, and texts for each week. This workbook is great for those who like to journal and will inspire you and you discover new ways to become your fullest self.

Need to change a habit or get into a new groove? Try this Omer program - only $10 for the PDF download, or they have hard copies, too.

"There is a seven-week count (some may be familiar with it being referred to as the Counting of the Omer) which starts on the second day of Passover. Each day is counted, for a total of 49 days. The intention is to be more fully present and to make every day count.

Kabbalah added another dimension to the count. 6 Each of the seven weeks is aligned with particular energy from the Tree of Life which provides for spiritual reflection.

While this count can be done in a rote manner (day one, day two) commemorating what others did in the past, the mystical teachings transformed it from an ancient narrative into a present personal story."

Link: https://kabbalahexperience.com/omer-journal-pdf-download/

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Jewish #Judaism #Passover #Pesach #Omer #Kabbalah

Your Seven Week Journey to Transformation
A Spiritual Journey
written by Dr David Sanders
Kabbalah for a Change

We are taking a novel approach to the 49-day count which offers a holistic slant on contemplating change in your life. We invite you to use the seven weeks as an opportunity to identify and work on a specific goal (or goals) of the desired change in your life. There is a parallel process to the transformation of the former slaves and their journey and your committing to a journey of change for yourself (whatever “enslavement” you need to emancipate from). The count and its associated energies act as a guide to move you from contemplating to completing change.

Your change can be relatively small, such as changing or modifying a particular behavior or habit. You can also choose to implement a significant change such as overcoming an addiction or evolving your identity. As an aid to understanding your process of change we will “check in” to see where the Hebrews were during their seven-week journey.

It was a process for them to change their sense of who they were. The Biblical narrative relates that on the Passover night they crossed the border of Egypt with exhilaration. Perhaps they had no idea where they were going, but they were clear where they no longer wanted to be and how they no longer wanted to be perceived and treated. This is a good starting point for your own contemplation of change.

My personal favorite counting of the Omer exercises!

"An innovative, spiritual workbook that integrates the Tarot and the Kabbalistic tradition of Counting the Omer:

• Explores the origins and meaning of the 49-day Kabbalistic meditative practice of Counting the Omer and how it can lead to spiritual revelation, personal insight, and connection with the Divine

• Reveals the correspondence of the Tarot’s minor arcana with the Sephirot of the Tree of Life and explains how both relate to the Omer meditation

• Provides a daily practice workbook that explores the related Sephirot and Tarot cards for each day, examines their Kabbalistic and spiritual meanings, and provides questions for daily reflection and meditation guidance"

Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/tarot-and-the-gates-of-light-a-kabbalistic-path-to-liberation-mark-horn/7179159

Webpage: https://www.gatesoflighttarot.com/

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Judaism #Jewish #Passover #Pesach #Omer

Tarot and the Gates of Light
A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation
Mark Horn

Adeptly integrating this mystical practice with the transformative symbolism of the Tarot, Mark Horn uses the ritual of Counting the Omer as a template for a guided meditative practice that gives readers insight into their personal life journey and help in overcoming the issues that hinder their growth and spiritual awakening. Examining the correspondence of the Tarot’s minor arcana with the Sephirot of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, he shows how using the cards in connection with Counting the Omer can unlock the gates to a deep experience of the sacred. In the detailed daily practice workbook section, Horn provides day-by-day descriptions of the 49-day meditative practice of Counting the Omer. He divides the journey into seven week-long segments, which in turn are broken down into seven daily practices. For each day, he explains the related Sephirot and Tarot cards and their Kabbalistic and spiritual meanings, providing the reader with questions for daily reflection, guidance for meditation, and insight from traditional Jewish texts as well as teachings from Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim traditions.

Unveiling the relationship between Tarot and the Kabbalah, Horn shows readers how uniting these two practices can open them to a deeper experience of the Divine.

The Counting of the Omer is a time for spiritual introspection and growth. During a time when many of us are feeling deflated and anxious about the state of the world, this ritual can help us to recharge our Neshamah, our soul.

Ritualwell is here for you! Through the 7-week period of the Omer, we’ll provide you with support, accountability, community and creative inspiration to do this spiritual work.

Every week, we will send you an Omer guide for the upcoming week, aligned with that week’s spiritual theme. This guide will include Jewish wisdom texts, readings, sensory explorations, and creativity prompts for the week. The printable PDF will be sent electronically and can be accessed online. When you sign up for Counting the Omer: A Neshamah Recharge, you are also invited to join us for three special community events throughout the Omer periodom Ritual Well:

Register: https://ritualwell.org/event/counting-the-omer-a-neshamah-recharge/2025-04-16/

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Judaism #Omer #Jewish #TikkunOlam

Counting the Omer: A Neshamah Recharge
Wednesday, Apr. 16; Thursday, May 15;
Tuesday, June 3 @ 12 p.m. EDT

The Counting of the Omer is a time for spiritual introspection and growth. During a time when many of us are feeling deflated and anxious about the state of the world, this ritual can help us to recharge our Neshamah, our soul.

Ritualwell is here for you! Through the seven-week period of the Omer, we’ll provide you with support, accountability, community and creative inspiration to do this spiritual work with three community events and a weekly guide with readings, creative prompts and practices.

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#Somaliland #Etiopia
Come riportato da “SomaliTV”, Il Presidente del Somaliland Muse #Bihi ha ricevuto un'alta delegazione del governo federale etiope guidata dal vice primo ministro, Adam #Farah, e dal Presidente della Regione Somala Mustafe #Omer.
La delegazione ha partecipato alla sepoltura nazionale dell'ex presidente del Somaliland, Ahmed #Silanyo, sepolto oggi ad Hargeisa.

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Mourning and Meaning Making -
Someday our current sorrows will be memories, woven into the tapestry of our shared destiny, By Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein

This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge on May 18, 2024.

"...This year, that process is more fraught than most. It has been only six months since the massacres of October 7th, and we are still engulfed in a brutal war. How can we engage in acts of ritual remembering when we are living in between “they tried to kill us” and “we prevailed?”

Our processes of mourning and memory can provide some guideposts. ...We gather, share stories and support those in the depths of grief, collectively waiting for the time when we might begin to make meaning. This sharing is the beginning of a narrative process during which memories become stories, eventually burnished into legacy when they motivate our actions..."

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/mourning-and-meaning-making/

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Omer #Judaism #Jewish #Shavuot #Yahrzeit

(Jewish Museum/Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman)

Shavuot begins on Tuesday, June 11. The holiday comes at the end of a 49-day period known as the counting of the Omer, a time that customarily involves mourning rituals and that culminates in the joyous reception of the Torah at Mount Sinai. In an essay for My Jewish Learning, Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein writes that the Omer, like all acts of mourning, can be a journey from despair to hope:

As hair grows and tears flow through this Omer period, we add new stories of collective and personal sorrows. Someday our current sorrows will be memories, woven into the tapestry of our shared destiny, where time and again we “sow in tears and reap in joy,” in the words of the psalmist. As we count down to Shavuot, we are reminded that, just as we stood together at Sinai, we will once again gather in the celebration of Torah and the renewal it promises.

Sharing this announcement from the #SpinozaHavurah for anyone interested in #Humanistic takes on traditional #Jewish holidays:

Join us on Saturday May 25th at 10:00 am EDT/2:00 pm UTC/3:00 pm BST for a Lag B’Omer Service. Please register for this service on Zoom.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vduiprzssGNzQyOzI04nJ8poS4TWhL1oH

Celebrate Lag Ba'Omer with us in a unique and spiritually enriching way. This special day marks the 33rd step in the Omer's 49-day journey, resonating with the theme of Hod within Hod - the essence of humility and splendor.

What to Bring: We invite you to participate actively by bringing a hard-boiled egg, marker pen, and candles. The eggs will serve as vessels for your personal wishes , symbolizing potential and new beginnings. The candles will represent the light of wisdom and revelation, honouring the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, whose insights have helped to illuminate our paths through Judaism.

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#Mazeldon #LagBOmer #Omer #CountingTheOmer #Judaism #HumanisticJudaism