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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Omer Counter Widget and Resources

L'ilui Nishmat Azriel Godel ben Efraim Halevi v'Yedidyah

The widget below counts the Omer on your web page—but now that the Omer is over, what should it do? I'm setting it up to display a new quote from Torah or Kabbalah every few days. I hope you'll check it out to see if you'd like to keep it during the year.

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 this year I lost my father during the count, and it was too hard for me to keep counting. His Hebrew name is mentioned above.) The Omer widget you'll see below will keep count for you and remind anyone who comes to your website to count.

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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There are three versions: one more eloquent, one more compact, and one text-only. The day displayed is always the count for that evening. The day changes over at 2AM for late night count-ers like myself. Toggle the date and time on your computer to see it work. See the widget on a mock up of my friend's webpage, Gentle Jewish Yoga. This widget is offered as a prayer for my father, Azriel Godel ben Efraim Halevi v'Yedidyah.


 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>     

 Or, download the Yahoo Desktop Omer widget (you may need to 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>

 Or, download the Yahoo Desktop Compact Omer widget (you may need to right-click 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>


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

Oops! Bug was not fixed -- day was updating at midnight GMT (not bad for Israel but no good for the US), then turning back one day from midnight to 2 AM. I think it's fixed now -- please let me know what you see!!

Posted by: Reb Duvid at April 24, 2008 5:27 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

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