Counting the Omer – Day 31
Counting the Omer – Feeding the Land, not the Landfill
At Hanukkah, feed your family with latkes and feed your compost with potato peels and onion skins.
Learn more about Jewish Holidays and Environmental Justice at Every Day is Earth Day: Jewish Holidays and Environmental Justice.
Blessing for Day Thirty One
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 אֶחָד וּשְׁלֹשִׁים יוֹם שֶׁהֵם אַרְבָּעָה שָׁבוּעוֹת וּשְׁלֹשָׁה יָמִים לָעֹֽמֶר
Hayom echad ushloshim yom shehem arbaah shavuot ushloshah yamim la-omer.
Today is thirty-one days, which is four weeks and three days of the Omer.
