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Bookmark or Share- What is the Omer and why do we count it? - Reform JudaismThe Omer was an ancient Hebrew measure of grain. Biblical law (Leviticus 23:9-11) forbade any use of the new barley crop until an omer was brought as an offering to the Temple in Jerusalem.
- Count Today's Omer - Omer Counting Tools - Chabad.orgBlessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer. Begin here if counting during daytime hours, or if you haven't counted every day since the beginning of this year's count: Today is one day of the Omer.
- Omer (unit) - WikipediaThe omer (Hebrew: עֹ֫מֶר ‘ōmer) is an ancient Israelite unit of dry measure used in the era of the Temple in Jerusalem and also known as an isaron. [1] It is used in the Bible as an ancient unit of volume for grains and dry commodities, and the Torah mentions it as being equal to one tenth of an ephah. [ 2 ]
- What Is the Counting of the Omer? - From the Book of Our HeritageThe Torah writes: "And you shall count for yourselves from the morrow of the Shabbat, from the day that you bring the omer [offering] that is raised, seven complete weeks there shall be until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count fifty days" (Leviticus 23:1516).
- Omer Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of OMER is an ancient Hebrew unit of dry capacity equal to 1/10 ephah.
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