Counting the Omer – Day 29
Counting the Omer – Feeding the Land, not the Landfill
Eat apples and honey on Rosh Hashanah and put your apple peels into the compost for a sweet and sustainable new year.
Learn more about Jewish Holidays and Environmental Justice at Every Day is Earth Day: Jewish Holidays and Environmental Justice.
Blessing for Day Twenty Nine
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 תִּשְׁעָה וְעֶשְׂרִים יוֹם שֶׁהֵם אַרְבָּעָה שָׁבוּעוֹת וְיוֹם אֶחָד לָעֹֽמֶר
Hayom tishah v’esrim yom shehem arbaah shavuot v’yom echad la-omer.
Today is twenty-nine days, which is four weeks and one day of the Omer.
