I’m blessed.  This doesn’t happen every year.

Every year many Jews, heeding the levitical command “And you shall count . . .,” count off the fifty days between Passover and Shavuot in reflection.  Having thrown off Pharaoh’s law (Passover), they seek to prepare themselves to receive God’s law at Sinai (Shavuot).

Written during this fifty-day period two years ago, Rabbi Shai Gluskin’s Omer Journal is one of the finest blog series I’ve read.  Shai takes part in the traditions that have grown up around “counting the omer” by connecting his life to the aspects of our personalities associated with each day of the count.  (Here’s an article on counting the omer and on Shai’s journal.)

He’s journaling again this year.  My spring is far richer for it.

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Posted April 23, 2008.