Count the Omer with the Omer Project on the streets of San Francisco!
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Apr 11, 2025, 4:26:19 AMApr 11
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Dear friends,
The Yeashore Community invites you to count the Omer with The Omer Project! Visit Yeashore.net for information, details and the full schedule!
The Omer Project gathers to count the Omer on different street corners in the Sunset and Richmond districts of San Francisco. We count the Omer at the numbered avenue that corresponds with the particular Omer day. There are 49 numbered avenues in those neighborhoods, in perfect correspondence to the 49 days of counting the Omer.
The next two weeks we will count together:
Omer day 1 on Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at Arguello and Lake, in front of Temple Emanu-El.
Omer day 5 on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 8:15 p.m. at Fifth Ave and Lincoln Way, on the North side of the street, by the Park, with Chabad Cole Valley
Omer day 8 on Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 8:45 p.m. at Eighth Ave and Fulton,
on the South side of the street, by the Park.
You may view the schedule at Yeashore.net/schedule and to join the listserv, please join our Google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21forum/theomerproject).
The Omer Project is all about bringing people together and emphasizing the message that we all count.
The Omer Project is a program of the Yeashore Community.
...Be Seeing You...Maggid Raja...
===== The Omer Project information =====
Join The Omer Project, as we gather to count the Omer on different street corners in the Sunset and Richmond districts of San Francisco. There are 49 numbered streets in those neighborhoods, in perfect correspondence to the 49 days of counting the Omer. (Was G-d on the City Planning Commission, or what?) As if that’s not cool enough, the Torah has been symbolically compared to the ocean, and Torah scholars have been compared to the fish in the sea. So we will count our way through the Avenues, each week getting closer to the ocean, until the holiday of Shavuot. We will gather in community and at synagogues in the Sunset and Richmond districts. We will count the Omer at the numbered avenue that corresponds with the particular Omer day, working our way from the smaller to larger numbers as the weeks progress.
Rain or shine... We all Count! (Bring an umbrella if you need it)
The Omer Project is all about bringing people together and emphasizing the message that we all count. To show that Congregations Count, we are gathering at synagogues throughout the Sunset and Richmond districts. To show that Community Counts, we will join together to learn a new spiritual quality each week. To show that Individuals Count, we will offer a punch card and information sheet for you to count the Omer on your own, between our gatherings.
Enjoy our Omer songs:
Omertime = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCeog9m6lA
Omer Fields = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2D-_6lQ9js
About the Omer:
“The world was created with Fifty Gates of Understanding” - Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 21b
After leaving Egypt, the Israelites traveled in the desert for 49 days; and on the 50th day, they received the Torah at Mount Sinai. Every year, Jews observe this 50-day period by participating in Sefirat HaOmer – counting of the Omer. Starting on the second day of Passover (except for Karaite Jews, who start on a slightly different calendar), Jews congregate every evening, for 49 consecutive days, to count the Omer. The 50th day is the holiday of Shavuot, commemorating the receiving of the Torah.
The 50 days of the Omer also correspond to the 50 Gates of Understanding, alluded to in the quote above. The first 49 gates are opened by humans, as they count the 49 days of the Omer. Each one of these gates connotes a character trait that is being understood and improved upon in preparation for receiving the Torah. On the 50th day -- Shavuot -- G-d opens the 50th gate and reveals the Torah.
Each day, as well as each week, of the Omer is dedicated to developing a spiritual quality based on the seven lower sefirot*:
· hesed (kindness) · gevurah (power) · tiferet (beauty) · netzach (eternity)
· hod (thankfulness) · yesod (foundation) · malchut (kingdom)
Chesed corresponds to the first week and to the first day of each week. Gevurah corresponds to the second week and to the second day of each week and so on. We will explain the details at each gathering.
* Sefirot (or sephirot), meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which G-d reveals G-dself and continuously creates in all the realms.
The Yeashore Community invites you to count the Omer with The Omer Project! Visit Yeashore.net for information, details and the full schedule!
The Omer Project gathers to count the Omer on different street corners in the Sunset and Richmond districts of San Francisco. We count the Omer at the numbered avenue that corresponds with the particular Omer day. There are 49 numbered avenues in those neighborhoods, in perfect correspondence to the 49 days of counting the Omer.
The next two weeks we will count together:
Omer day 1 on Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at Arguello and Lake, in front of Temple Emanu-El.
Omer day 5 on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 8:15 p.m. at Fifth Ave and Lincoln Way, on the North side of the street, by the Park, with Chabad Cole Valley
Omer day 8 on Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 8:45 p.m. at Eighth Ave and Fulton,
on the South side of the street, by the Park.
You may view the schedule at Yeashore.net/schedule and to join the listserv, please join our Google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21forum/theomerproject).
The Omer Project is all about bringing people together and emphasizing the message that we all count.
The Omer Project is a program of the Yeashore Community.
...Be Seeing You...Maggid Raja...
===== The Omer Project information =====
Join The Omer Project, as we gather to count the Omer on different street corners in the Sunset and Richmond districts of San Francisco. There are 49 numbered streets in those neighborhoods, in perfect correspondence to the 49 days of counting the Omer. (Was G-d on the City Planning Commission, or what?) As if that’s not cool enough, the Torah has been symbolically compared to the ocean, and Torah scholars have been compared to the fish in the sea. So we will count our way through the Avenues, each week getting closer to the ocean, until the holiday of Shavuot. We will gather in community and at synagogues in the Sunset and Richmond districts. We will count the Omer at the numbered avenue that corresponds with the particular Omer day, working our way from the smaller to larger numbers as the weeks progress.
Rain or shine... We all Count! (Bring an umbrella if you need it)
The Omer Project is all about bringing people together and emphasizing the message that we all count. To show that Congregations Count, we are gathering at synagogues throughout the Sunset and Richmond districts. To show that Community Counts, we will join together to learn a new spiritual quality each week. To show that Individuals Count, we will offer a punch card and information sheet for you to count the Omer on your own, between our gatherings.
Enjoy our Omer songs:
Omertime = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCeog9m6lA
Omer Fields = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2D-_6lQ9js
About the Omer:
“The world was created with Fifty Gates of Understanding” - Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 21b
After leaving Egypt, the Israelites traveled in the desert for 49 days; and on the 50th day, they received the Torah at Mount Sinai. Every year, Jews observe this 50-day period by participating in Sefirat HaOmer – counting of the Omer. Starting on the second day of Passover (except for Karaite Jews, who start on a slightly different calendar), Jews congregate every evening, for 49 consecutive days, to count the Omer. The 50th day is the holiday of Shavuot, commemorating the receiving of the Torah.
The 50 days of the Omer also correspond to the 50 Gates of Understanding, alluded to in the quote above. The first 49 gates are opened by humans, as they count the 49 days of the Omer. Each one of these gates connotes a character trait that is being understood and improved upon in preparation for receiving the Torah. On the 50th day -- Shavuot -- G-d opens the 50th gate and reveals the Torah.
Each day, as well as each week, of the Omer is dedicated to developing a spiritual quality based on the seven lower sefirot*:
· hesed (kindness) · gevurah (power) · tiferet (beauty) · netzach (eternity)
· hod (thankfulness) · yesod (foundation) · malchut (kingdom)
Chesed corresponds to the first week and to the first day of each week. Gevurah corresponds to the second week and to the second day of each week and so on. We will explain the details at each gathering.
* Sefirot (or sephirot), meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which G-d reveals G-dself and continuously creates in all the realms.
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