Today is Tuesday, Iyar 11, 5786 · April 28, 2026
Omer: Day 26 - Hod sheb'Netzach
Today's Laws & Customs
• Count "Twenty-Seven Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the twenty-seventh day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall of the previous evening, we count the omer for tomorrow's date tonight, after nightfall: "Today is twenty-seven days, which are three weeks and six days, to the Omer." (If you miss the count tonight, you can count the omer all day tomorrow, but without the preceding blessing).
The 49-day "Counting of the Omer" retraces our ancestors' seven-week spiritual journey from the Exodus to Sinai. Each evening we recite a special blessing and count the days and weeks that have passed since the Omer; the 50th day is Shavuot, the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
Tonight's Sefirah: Yesod sheb'Netzach -- "Connection in Ambition"
The teachings of Kabbalah explain that there are seven "Divine Attributes" -- Sefirot -- that G-d assumes through which to relate to our existence: Chessed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut ("Love", "Strength", "Beauty", "Victory", "Splendor", "Foundation" and "Sovereignty"). In the human being, created in the "image of G-d," the seven sefirot are mirrored in the seven "emotional attributes" of the human soul: Kindness, Restraint, Harmony, Ambition, Humility, Connection and Receptiveness. Each of the seven attributes contain elements of all seven--i.e., "Kindness in Kindness", "Restraint in Kindness", "Harmony in Kindness", etc.--making for a total of forty-nine traits. The 49-day Omer Count is thus a 49-step process of self-refinement, with each day devoted to the "rectification" and perfection of one the forty-nine "sefirot."
Links:
How to count the Omer
The deeper significance of the Omer Count
Today in Jewish History
• Jewish Books Confiscated (1510)
1,500 Jewish books were confiscated in Frankfurt am Main, Germany at the instigation of an apostate (Meshumad) on the 11th of Iyar.
• Riots in Wasilkow and Konotop (1881)
Anti Jewish riots (pogroms) continue to escalate in Russia and break out on the 11th of Iyar in Waslikow and Konotop. The Jews were blamed for the assassination of Czar Alexander II, who was assassinated by revolutionaries. The riots continued for three years across the entire Russia.
• The Battle at Deganya (1948)
The Israeli Army defeated the advancing Syrian Army, following the shelling at the entrance of Deganya, which began at sunrise and lasted nine hours. It is considered the first Israeli victory following the start of the War of Independence.
• Passing of R. Naftali of Ropshitz (1827)
R. Naftali of Ropshitz, a leading disciple of R. Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz, the “Seer of Lublin,”
was one of the prominent Rebbes in Galicia during the early nineteenth century.
He passed away on 11 Iyar 5587 (1827).
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Daily Quote
Bringing someone to mind has the effect of arousing that person's innermost powers. We see that when one looks deeply and intently at another, the other person will turn around and return the glance, because the penetrating gaze awakens the core of the soul. Thought has the same effect.
— Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
Daily Torah Study
Chumash: Emor, 3rd Portion Vayikra (Leviticus) 22:17-22:33 with Rashi
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Daily Wisdom (short insight)
Tehillim: Chapters 60 - 65
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Tanya: Likutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 46
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Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvot:
• 1 Chapter A Day: Tefillin, Mezuzah and Sefer Torah Tefillin, Mezuzah and Sefer Torah - Chapter 8
• 3 Chapters A Day: Naarah Betulah Naarah Betulah - Chapter 1, Naarah Betulah Naarah Betulah - Chapter 2, Naarah Betulah Naarah Betulah - Chapter 3
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