Sfiras HaOmer – Remembering to Count

set reminders on your cellphone through your calender and/or I think my zmanim has a text message service for this. Another idea is the ou sefirah reminder (do a google search on it).

There is a number to text to(i dont know offhand I’ll try finding it), and every night they will text you at the same time a reminder to count.

1. Download and install Sefira Counter (Google it). It even allows you to set up the minutes after sunset you wait in the evening, as well as an exact location.

2. If you can, daven with a minyan every night.

I forgot on the first night.

you gotta be kidding, aussie. didn’t everyone say it at the same time before you started the seder? you’re so bad – even i didn’t forget 😉

moish: We say it after the seder, but I was tired so I finished up quick before everyone else.

moihs: I mean i just said it by myself faster than everyone else and I didnt go to sleep.

moish: Because no one reminded me and i wasnt around when everyone else said it at the end of the seder.

moish: Good luck.

moish & everyone: hatzlacha with sayin sefira every night!

moish: your welcome buddy!

So this is what we got so far:

Text “SEFIRA” to 41411

Or from the OU: click on this link https://secure2.convio.net/ou/site/SSurvey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=1141 and fill out the form (check the “Sefirah Reminder” box)

And MyZmanim: http://www.myzmanim.com/ and follow the instructions.

If you know any more, let us know.

Hatzlacha Rabbah! May we all be zoche to reach the 50th level of Kedusha. Remember, counting is supposed to be a reminder to come closer to Hashem. Even if you messed up, Hashem will still take you back without the counting.

If you missed a day, you can be yoyzeh with someone else’s Brocha. When davening for the amud, the Chazzan is supposed to have in mind anyone who can not make the Brocha.

Just counted here – have set reminders on both my phone and email for each evening

aussie: hatzlacha…………for next year buddy!

Text sefira to 41411 and reply Y… Awesome!

Here is an interesting email that was forwarded to me:

This is Gedalia Max from Brooklyn NY, Dean of Yeshivas Hamatmonin, a home schooling yeshiva elementary and high school for boys and girls separate who can’t succeed in a regular yeshiva

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I want to mention that B”H I discovered an easy way how to remember the Sefiras HaOmer day by having a special number. For instance, the first day of sefira this year was April 9th and by subtracting 9 minus 1 the answer is 8 and therefore if we subtract the number 8 from the April date we will know the sefira for that day. For example, today is April 29th and if we subtract the number 8 we will have tonight’s sefira number.

If a person forgets to count sefira at night time and remembers the next day if he subtracts the number 9 from the April date he will know the day’s sefira. For instance, by subtracting 9 from tomorrow’s date of April 30th he will know the sefira number of the day.

On May 1st he will have to add the number 22 to the may date to know the Friday night sefira and the number 22 to all the May dates and for the daytime sefira if he forgot to count at night he adds the number 21 to the May day’s date. So, on Shabbos during the day of May 2nd he adds the number 21 to know the daytime sefiras haomer number

Therefore, if someone is sitting next to a gentile on the subway he can’t ask him what sefira it is but he can ask him what’s the English date and with the special number he can know what the sifera is. On the other hand if he’s sitting next to a chasidisha person on the subway he can’t ask him what the English date is but he can ask him what the sefira is and then he can use the special number to know what the English date is.

Also, I don’t just count sefira after mariv but also after shachres and mincha also (without a bracha of course) and other times also so then I don’t have to remember if I counted sefira the night before since I counted yesterdays sefira during the day.

Also since the chinuch says that one of the reasons that we count the

omer is because the Jewish people are to compared to a chossen who counts the days when he will be getting married and the Jewish people are also very excited and count the days when they will receive the Torah and be connected to the rebono shel olom and we know that the chossen doesn’t think just once a day about when he’s going to get married but many times during the day. So too, by our counting many times during the day we are fulfilling the mitzva with the proper devotion.

Thank you very much. Gedalia Max, Brooklyn NY, Yeshvas Hamatmonim

anonymisss, making it that far is still better than most people. 🙂

*kapusta*

anonymisss: If its any comfort I forgot the first night lol

aussie, i did that one year;)

kapusta, thanx.

so, who’s still counting?

~a~

me.

moish, you dont believe in a reminder on your phone?

*kapusta*

well i don’t need one because then i wouldn’t need my father and i’d rather have him than an alarm or a text message…

so i didn’t tell him about the message and if he knows it exists he didn’t tell me.

moish, good for you;)

kapusta, good for you;)

jax, good for you;)

I’m jealous.

~a~

anonymisss: i vote for both on that one! 😉