Counting the Omer – Day 34
Counting the Omer – Feeding the Land, not the Landfill
Chop apples for your charoset and pop the apple cores into your compost! Sweetens your matzah and your soil. After Passover, grow the horseradish root from your Seder plate and next year put the horseradish leaves into the compost.
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Blessing for Day Thirty Four
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו, וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל סְפִירַת הָעֹֽמֶר.
Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav vitzivanu al s’firat ha-omer.
Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the universe, who makes us holy with mitzvot, and commands us concerning the counting of the Omer.
.הַיּוֹם אַרְבָּעָה וּשְׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם שֶׁהֵם אַרְבָּעָה שָׁבוּעוֹת וְשִׁשָּׁה יָמִים לָעֹֽמֶר
Hayom arbaah ushloshim yom shehem arbaah shavuot v’shishah yamim la-omer.
Today is thirty-four days, which is four weeks and six days of the Omer.
