Lag B'omer
Counting the days
Michael Ryan Stotler
Part of Holiday Specials
May 7, 2023

Leviticus 23:15–16 (NIV)
15 “ ‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.
16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

Omer

Omer is a unit of measure, meaning “sheaves of a harvested crop”

Deuteronomy 16:9–12 (NIV)
9 Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
10 Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the LORD your God has given you.
11 And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.


In the Jewish World each week of the Omer month is dedicated to a sprititual quality that we aspire to attain in greater measure:

  1. chesed (kindness),
  2. gevurah (strength)
  3. tiferet (harmony and compassion)
  4. netzach (endurance)
  5. Hod (humility)
  6. yesod (bonding)
  7. Malchut (sovereignty and leadership)

Lag B’Omer

Next Steps


1. #Bibliography

https://free.messianicbible.com/holiday/lag-bomer-yearning-messiah/

https://www.oneforisrael.org/holidays/lag-bomer-playing-with-fire/

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/42944/jewish/Lag-BaOmer.htm

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/lag-baomer/