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Omer Bundle: Book + Cards
A Counting
Introduction by Rabbi A. Brian Stoller
Photographer Chime Costello
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.
Please visit her website at karynkedar.com.
