The following is comprised of information about each aspect of the Omer taken directly from the Chabad website. Information taken from the website is in blue italics and is mostly verbatim. Alterations of what is written in italics were done for grammar, spelling, and ease of understanding. When able, the exercise for the day was changed into a question for reflection instead of an action. Some questions were combined and some
were moved from one aspect to another. What is important to understand is that the skeleton for this was taken from the Chabad website and there is no attempt to plagiarize or present what is written in italics as my own.
As you reflect on each day for yourself, think also about your mate and your loved ones and how you would answer these questions for them in relation to you and to each question. Our emotional connection is a two way street and must be reciprocal for it to be healthy. If one person in a relationship is not willing or capable, then the relationship is more an illusion of our own making. If you are reviewing your children along with yourself, remember their age; until a child is out of the house and taking care of themselves, they are still emotionally a child and this should be taken into consideration.
With the mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha'Omer, the Torah invites us on a journey into the human psyche, into the soul. There are seven basic emotions that make up the spectrum of human experience. At the root of all forms of enslavement, is a distortion of these emotions. Each of the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot is dedicated to examining and refining one of them. The seven weeks, which represent these emotional attributes, further divide into seven days making up the 49 days of the counting. Since a fully functional emotion is multidimensional, it includes within itself a blend of all seven attributes.
were moved from one aspect to another. What is important to understand is that the skeleton for this was taken from the Chabad website and there is no attempt to plagiarize or present what is written in italics as my own.
As you reflect on each day for yourself, think also about your mate and your loved ones and how you would answer these questions for them in relation to you and to each question. Our emotional connection is a two way street and must be reciprocal for it to be healthy. If one person in a relationship is not willing or capable, then the relationship is more an illusion of our own making. If you are reviewing your children along with yourself, remember their age; until a child is out of the house and taking care of themselves, they are still emotionally a child and this should be taken into consideration.
With the mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha'Omer, the Torah invites us on a journey into the human psyche, into the soul. There are seven basic emotions that make up the spectrum of human experience. At the root of all forms of enslavement, is a distortion of these emotions. Each of the seven weeks between Passover and Shavuot is dedicated to examining and refining one of them. The seven weeks, which represent these emotional attributes, further divide into seven days making up the 49 days of the counting. Since a fully functional emotion is multidimensional, it includes within itself a blend of all seven attributes.