The Baal Shem Tov, or Besht —  the founder of Chasidism — 
met the soul of the Messiah during an ascent to heaven. 
The Besht asked him, "When will the Master come?" 
The Messiah answered, "When your wellsprings break forth to the outside!" 
(from a letter written by the Besht to his brother-in-law about one of his soul ascents) 


 
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The Omer Widget

לעילוי נשמת עזריאל גודל בן אפרים הלוי וידידיה, For Richard Gary Seidenberg

The widget below will display a new quote from Torah or Kabbalah on your web page every few weeks. It will also keep count of the Omer between Passover and Shavuot. Check it out and put it on your website for the Omer or for the whole year.

There are three versions: one with a bigger graphic, one more compact, and one text-only. I created this widget during my father's illness and offered it as a prayer for his healing. To my great sadness he died during the Omer of 2008, so it is now dedicated to his memory.

 To add the larger widget to your site, homepage, etc, paste this line of code anywhere:

<a href="http://neohasid.org/resources/omer"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://neohasid.org/js/omer_widget.js"></script></a>     

 [For the omer period only, download the Yahoo Desktop Omer widget (right-click with IE to save). Requires Yahoo widget engine.]
To add the smaller widget to your site, homepage, etc, paste this line of code anywhere:

<a href="http://neohasid.org/resources/omer"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://neohasid.org/js/sm_omer_widget.js"></script></a>

 [For the Omer period only, download the Yahoo Desktop Compact widget (right-click in IE to save). Requires Yahoo widget engine.]

To center the widget on the page add these tags before and after →
Either add: <div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript" src="..."></script> </div>
Or add: <center> <script type="text/javascript" src="..."></script> </center>
 Daniel Bloom from Hazon.org modded the widget to be text-only. To add the text-only widget to your site, homepage, etc, paste this line of code anywhere:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://neohasid.org/js/omer_widget-nobg.js"></script>



Counting the entire Omer period is one of those mitzvot that is absolutely simple and yet so very hard for people like myself. I think I've only managed to count the entire way (all 49 days) three times in my life. (I am so sorry to say that last year my father died during the count, z"l, and it became too hard for me to remember to keep counting. His Hebrew name is mentioned above.) The widget you see above counts the Omer for you and visitors to your website starting a few days before Pesach. After Shavuot it displays brief traditional teachings related to Jewish "eco-spirituality". Toggle the date and time on your computer to see how it works for different times. The count displayed is always the count for that evening. The day changes over at 2AM for late night count-ers like myself. See the widget in place on a mock up of my friend's webpage, Gentle Jewish Yoga.

more related to the Omer: How to Count, Blessing the Fruit Trees, Lag B'Omer (+ Rainbow Day), Stolner Counting Nigun, Ana B'Khoach liturgy, The Sefirot and their symbolism, Shavuot, Pauline Frankenberg's Omer Art, Yom Ha'atzma'ut, Omer podcast from IJS. Please visit our HOMEPAGE and join our list.
Efes Bilt'kha

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I hope you enjoy this! ~ Reb Duvid

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Thank you so much for making this; I've been wanting something like it for years!

Posted by: Rachel at April 16, 2008 7:17 PM

this is great but i think it's not right? It's fixed! ~ Reb Duvid

Posted by: phyllis at April 21, 2008 3:07 AM

Great idea. Happy omer counting. I'm starting up my omer journal again this year.

Posted by: Shai Gluskin at April 23, 2008 5:37 AM

Thank you, Reb David, for making this beautiful, and useful, link between the old and the new!

Posted by: Dinah at April 30, 2008 4:47 PM

This is a great resource, thank you! I've just added it to my blog.
--aa.

Posted by: alto artist at May 5, 2008 2:18 PM

This song is beautiful!!!
(Efes Bilt'kha )
Is there more?

Posted by: Danika at May 29, 2008 5:31 AM

Thanks for the beautiful graphic with the blessing and the anabekoach versions. Haunting.

Posted by: Lauren Deutsch at April 2, 2010 8:39 AM

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