This is a new year and I think I am going to do my best to count the Omer are the truly religious and righteous Jews do each year. The Omer is the count beginning the 2nd day of Passover for 49 days until the coming of Shavuot. This is a skill that I believe one may not learn until later in their life.
That said it is supposed to be a time of personal reflection and strengthening. Lets see if I can do it and do it well this year.
I found the following site on AISH.com:
http://www.aish.com/h/o/t/48969716.html
This gives you something new to do every day of the OMER. I marked it as my home page. If I do this, I think I can make sure that I dont forget a single day of the OMER. This is a great day and age because counting 50 days is really not a simple task and one might forget to count a day once.
If you forget to count a day of the omer which each day after sundown, you say a Bracha for each day, you must continue counting but you do not continue saying the Bracha. The reason for this I believe is that if you skip a day, you lost the wand of life that you were waving in the wind. So there is no reason to keep counting.
I have never counted the Omer before but God willing, this will be my year. Wish me the best!
Another part of this process is detailed even more efficiently in the following link. Shows the "program".
http://www.aish.com/h/o/t/52829142.html
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