Day Twenty-seven
18th of Iyyar 5781 – from sundown on April 29th to sundown on April 30th, 2021
Begin by reciting the blessing:
ברוך אתה יהוה אלוהינו , מלך העולם , אשר קדשנו במצותי
וציונו עלי לספירת העומר
Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu Melekh ha'Olam asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav
v'tizivanu al sefirat ha'omer.
v'tizivanu al sefirat ha'omer.
Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with your commandments and commanded us to count the omer.
Recite the day of the count:
היום שבעה ועשרים יום שהם שלשה שבועות וששה ימים לעמר
Hayom shivah v'esrim yom, sh'hem shloshah shavuot v'shishah yamim la'omer.
Today is the twenty-seventh day, making three weeks and six days of the Omer.
Psalm 67: 4-7 (NKJV 49 word Paraphrase)
Let the peoples praise You, God; For You shall judge the people righteously, And govern all the nations on earth. Let everyone praise You, God; Let all people praise You. Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, shall bless us, And all the earth shall fear Him.
Psalm 25: 4-10:
Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day. Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; According to Your mercy remember me, For Your goodness' sake, O Lord. Good and upright is the Lord; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way. The humble He guides in justice, And the humble He teaches His way. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.
Prayer for day 27:
Heavenly Father, we humbly ask that You preserve and protect Your people who are called by your holy Name. Forgive us, shine your face on us and heal our land that has been defiled by the shedding of innocent blood. Sovereign of the universe, You have commanded us through Moses Your servant to count the days of the omer, in order to purify and cleanse us. Therefore, may it be Your will, Lord our God and God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that in the counting of the omer which I (we) have counted today, I (we) may be purified and sanctified. And through my (our) obedience to your commandments, may Your abundant bounty be granted all the world. May it rectify our soul and our spirit from every impurity and evil intent, and may it purify and sanctify us with all your holiness.
Abba, father, on this, the twenty-seventh day of the counting of the omer, we remember your bountiful kindnesses to the Israelites, how you delivered them from slavery in Egypt by the great miracles you performed and met their every need. And we remember how in the fourth week after He arose, Yeshua continued encouraging and teaching His disciples of the things pertaining to Your kingdom. We humbly ask that You in the same way, reveal in us how we may become better conduits of your love and mercy to all the world. Amen.
After the reciting the prayer, continue to pray and meditate on how after the Israelites became complacent and self-reliant at Elim, they left and then failed to remember the miracles God had performed on their behalf. Pray that God will be merciful with us when we are complacent, self-reliant and fail to remember our commitments.
The Sefirot for Day twenty-seven is: Yesod of Netzach: Bonding in Endurance. A very important attribute of endurance is our ability to unwaveringly hold to a commitment. When we make a promise to do something we say “our word is our bond.” Sometimes it is actually the strength of our bond with another person that gives us the endurance to keep a commitment.
Suggested activity for today: Remember a commitment that you have made that is unfulfilled and take action today to fulfill your promise.
Suggested reading from the weekly Torah portion: Emor – 6th reading: Leviticus 23:33-44
Suggested reading from the Prophets: Malachi 1:6-14
Suggested reading from the Brit Hadashah: John 7:1-13, 37-39; Rev 19:6-9
Suggested reading from the Prophets: Malachi 1:6-14
Suggested reading from the Brit Hadashah: John 7:1-13, 37-39; Rev 19:6-9
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