This page offers links to a multitude of websites, online tools and more that will allow you or your student to walk away with a slew of information on all things Sefiras HaOmer related.
2 FREE NLE Morasha Syllabus Classes
- Sefirat Ha’Omer I: Making it Count
- Sefirat Ha’Omer II: Lag B’Omer and Striving for Spiritual Perfection
Charts
- Sefirat Haomer Chart Laminte the chart and use year after year!
Links
- Sefiras HaOmer Review Sheets and Assessments, by Rabbi Gedalia Goldstein
- Sefira 101, by Rabbi Yochanan Schnall
- Countin’ to the Mountain
Sefirat HaOmer: a poem for each night - מיתת תלמידי רבי עקיבא & ימי הספירה–הכנה לקבלת התורה
By Rabbi Yitzchak Ruderman - Count Today’s Omer
The Nusach of the Sefira in English, Hebrew & Phonetics - Sefira Bumper Sticker
Sefira Bumper Sticker, How many days to the Omer? - Transliterated Version of Sefirat HaOmer, by OU.org
- Basic Laws of Sefiras HaOmer, by OU.org
- Colored Eggs for Sefiras HaOmer?, by Ohr Somayach
- Tweeting the Sefirat HaOmer, by Tech Rav
- Iyar – Month Of Refuah – Segulas For Refuah & Sefiras HaOmer
- Meditation & Sefiras HaOmer, by a Simple Jew
- Sefer HaMinhagim The Period of Sefiras HaOmer and Lag BaOmer
- Customs During Sefira Part 1, Halachically Speaking
Children’s Resources
- Use this slideshow to review the story of Rabbi Akiva. You can see a lesson plan to accompany the slideshow here.
- Inyanei Lag B’Omer: Booklet (English) – by Binyomin Karman (Middle & High School)
- Hilchos Lag B’Omer – Booklet (Hebrew) – by Binyomin Karman (Middle & High School)
- Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and Minhagei Lag B’Omer: Powerpoint – Chinuch.Org
- Full List of Lag B’Omer Teaching Resources – Chinuch.Org
Infographics
- Fire in Jewish Culture / Happy Lag B’Omer!
- Sefirat HaOmer – The Original Countdown
- Lag B’Omer Infographic by NCSY
Audio
- Counting the Omer by Rabbi Akiva Tatz
- The Deeper Meaning of Counting the Omer by Rabbi Akiva Tatz
- https://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecture.cfm/952108/rabbi-efrem-goldberg/time-awareness-personal-growth-one-step-at-a-time-sefiras-ha-omer/
- Time Awareness & Personal Growth, One Step at a Time – Sefiras Ha’Omer by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
- Counting Omer & Accepting Torah by Rabbi Chaim Brovender
- Increasing Kedusha in a World Gone Dark by Mrs. Michal Horowitz
- You’re Free From Pesach! Now What? by Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff
- Counting the Omer by Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky
- Mitzvas Sefiras HaOmer, by Rabbi Yonason Sack
- R. Mottel Zilber on Lag Ba’Omer Pre-Lag Ba’Omer Hisorerus (Audio)
Articles
- Daily Omer Meditation: A practical guide to becoming great in 49 days, by Rabbi Simon Jacobson
- Who Knows 50?, by Osher Chaim Levene, with Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman
- Q & A: Women Counting Sefirat Haomer, by Rabbi Yaakov Klass
- Two Heroes of Sefirat HaOmer, by OU Staff
- Making Time Count: The Message of Counting the Omer by Rabbi Binyomin Weisz
Lag B’Omer
- What We Learn from Lag BaOmer by Rabbi Mordechai I. Willig
- Why I Was Sad on Lag B’Omer, by Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
- What Lag Baomer Hype Inc. Doesn’t Tell You – Lesser Known Facts and Aspects Of ח”י אייר
- Gilyon Stitchin Lag B’Omer
- Shvilei Pinchas, Lag B’Omer 5773 in english & hebrew
- Lag BaOmer Shiur, by Rabbi David Sedley
- The Transmission of Kabbalah: introduction to Shomer Emunim HaKadmon, translated by Rabbi David Sedley
- A Printing Mistake and the Mysterious Origins of Rashbi’s Yahrzeit, by Eliezer Brodt
- NLE Kabbalah Classes for Lag B’Omer
- Kabbalah – Jewish Mysticism I: What is Kabbalah and The Prerequisites for its Study
- Kabbalah – Jewish Mysticism II: Principles of Jewish Mysticism: Hishtalshelut
- Kabbalah – Jewish Mysticism III: Kabbalistic Explanations of the Torah, Mitzvot, and Reincarnation
Recipes
- 15 Israeli Inspired Recipes for Lag B’Omer, by Joy of Kosher
Videos
- The Omer: What it Was and Why We Count It by Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff
- The Best of Times, The Worst of Times by Rabbi Mordechai Becher
- Lag B’Omer by Rabbi Mordechai Becher
- Connecting Pesach & Shavuot by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
- Sefirat HaOmer: Hashem is Your Friend by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
- Counting & Rising to Greatness by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
- The Life of Rav Shimon Bar Yochai: Teaching Us to Delve Beneath the Surface by Rabbi Eytan Feiner
- The Importance of Sefirat HaOmer by Rabbi Eytan Feiner
- Sefirat HaOmer: The Students of Rabbi Akiva by Rabbi Gavriel Friedman
- Practical Spirituality: Lag B’Omer by Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser
- How Sefirat HaOmer Can Change Your Life by Mr. Charlie Harary
- How Sefirat HaOmer is a Training Ground for Greatness by Mr. Charlie Harary
- Embracing Hardship: The Journey from Barley to Wheat by Rabbi Menachem Nissel
- Don’t Just Count the Days, Make the Days Count by Rabbi Paysach Krohn
- Becoming Great – Pesach Sheini and Lag B’Omer by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
- Sefirat HaOmer: Make Your Own Miracle by Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein
- Lag B’Omer: Not the Fallen Ones, But the Ones Who Got Up! by Rabbi Moshe Weinberger
- Sefirat HaOmer: Respecting Each Other by Rabbi Moshe Bamberger
Websites
- Aish.com – Articles, Essays, and Videos on Sefiras Ha’Omer and Lag B’Omer
- Torah.org – Essays and Divrei Torah on Sefiras Ha’Omer and Lag B’Omer
- Lag BaOmer | Aleph Beta
- Torahanytime.com – Sefiras HaOmer & Lag B’Omer
- YuTorah.org – Sefiras Ha’Omer & Lag B’Omer
- TorahDownloads.org – Sefiras Ha’Omer & Lag B’Omer (Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz, Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky, and more)
- Rav Moshe Shapira z”l – Type in “search” the word בעומר
