Perfect companions, Omer: A Counting and the Omer Cards offer evocative readings, beautiful photography, and daily inspiration along the path from Passover to Shavuot.
Omer: A Counting: The counting of the Omer begins with the escape from enslavement to the wandering path of freedom, leading to a mystical encounter with God, Sinai, and Torah. This volume, beginning with its informative contextual introduction, provides a spiritual guide for a personal journey through the Omer toward meaningful and purposeful living. Beautiful and evocative readings for each day matched with the daily Omer blessing, offer a transformative path from Passover to Shavuot.
Omer Cards: These unique and beautiful cards offer an inspirational reading for each day of the Omer. A set of forty-nine cards, the deck is divided into seven spiritual principles: Decide, Discern, Choose, Hope, Imagine, Courage, and Pray. As Rabbi Karyn Kedar says of the cards, "Each day its own thought, each week its own theme, to help illuminate your days."
Acknowledgments Introduction by Rabbi A. Brian Stoller Before We Begin The Personal Journey: An Invitation Week One: Decide Week Two: Discern Week Three: Choose Week Four: Hope Week Five: Imagine Week Six: Courage Week Seven: Pray Counting’s End For Special Days Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom HaZikaron: Israel Memorial Day Yom HaAtzmaut: Israel Independence Day Earth Day Mother’s Day Memorial Day Shabbat Lag BaOmer Rosh Chodesh
Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar is an author, poet, spiritual counselor, inspirational speaker and rabbi emerita at Congregation B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Deerfield, Illinois. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1985. She is the author of several books, among them Omer: A Counting (2014), Amen: Seeking Presence with Prayer, Poetry, and Mindfulness Practice (2019), and Unfolding: A High Holy Day Companion(2025) from CCAR Press. She is also published in numerous anthologies and has created liturgy, rituals, and ceremonies.
Rabbi Kedar teaches courses and designs retreats on finding meaning and purpose in our busy lives, creating a prayerful and intentional life, spiritual awakening, forgiveness, and intentional leadership. She offers workshops in engagement, vision, and creating the synagogue for the twenty-first century.
She and her husband Ezra are the proud parents of Talia, Moti, Shiri and Ilan and grandparents of Lihi, Maya, Eliyah, Emma, Leo, and Nelly all who live in Israel.
Rabbi Karyn Kedar, poet, spiritual counselor, inspirational speaker, and author of The Omer: A Counting, explains three levels of meaning behind the tradition of counting the Omer.
