Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu Melekh ha’Olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tizivanu al sefirat ha’Omer. Blessed are you, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the Universe, who has sanctified us with your commandments and commanded us to count the Omer. Today is thirty-one days, which is four weeks and three days of the Omer. We are more than half way toward our goal of counting the Omer toward Shavuot or Pentecost. To the Orthodox Jew, Shavuot is one of God's Appointed Days, 50 days af

My friend's 4 year old son, found a gecko the other day while playing in the backyard.  He carefully placed it in his BugBox with grass