Counting our change

Ask the rabbi: what are the different customs for observing the "Sefira?"

What really happened to the students of Rabbi Akiva?

All for One, One for All

Why don’t we just make one bracha at the beginning of the count, on the first night, & then say a closing bracha on the last night? Why are there 49 separate brachot recited?!

Is "Sefira" a Personal or Communal Obligation?

R-e-s-p-e-c-t, Find Out What It Means to You

Two ideas permeate our nightly enumeration: 1) The linking up of Pesach & Shavuot & 2) The semi-mourning practices associated with this time of the year, due to the deaths of the students of Rabbi Akiva. Is there a connection?

What Are the Different Customs for Observing the "Sefira?"

Alone Together

!To infinity – and beyond