Instructions for counting the omer are found on our Omer Overview Page. You can find the specific blessing for today at chabad.org.
We’re dedicating new Siddurim on the first day of Shavuot. In honor of this wonderful occasion, we’re using the counting of the Omer to learn about the siddur.
Enjoy today’s siddur related question and answer, which was provided by Joe G..
What’s an especially powerful prayer or verse in the siddur to you?
In the circles in which I have studied and worked (chiefly great universities and the World Bank), intellectual arrogance is a constant threat and temptation, and I have not exactly been immune to its charms. Even in such august places, I have found many people to be fools, oddly enough especially among those who got in the way of my theories, projects, and programs. My arrogance often made life and work easier, as few feeling public mockery and ridicule for obstructionism want to take that course again. But this approach undoubtedly hurt feelings, and even worse, in some cases the “fools” were probably right, and I and my people were the real fools. On a practical level, remember what happened to the last American politician who called her opponents “deplorables”. Praying for humility will not work quickly – I am a testament to that – but it may gradually nudge us over to a more accepting and civil disposition.