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#If one forgot to count at night one can still count during the day without a bracha and continue to count the next night with a bracha.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 489:7</ref> | #If one forgot to count at night one can still count during the day without a bracha and continue to count the next night with a bracha.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 489:7</ref> | ||
#If someone forgot until sunset, it is possible to count during ben hashemashot and later that night continue to count with a | #If someone forgot until sunset, it is possible to count during ben hashemashot and later that night continue to count with a bracha. In such a case a person should be careful to continue to count each subsequent day at night and not ben hashemashot. For this purpose a person should only employ the ben hashemashot of the geonim and not rabbenu tam.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 489:24, Chazon Ovadia p. 238</ref> | ||
#If someone forgot to count until they accepted Shabbat and davened maariv early, it is still possible to count without a bracha, and then continue that night to count with a bracha.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 489:24 quoting the Shaarei Teshuva, Igrot Moshe 4:99, and Shraga Hameir 6:41 based on Taz 600</ref> | #If someone forgot to count until they accepted Shabbat and davened maariv early, it is still possible to count without a bracha, and then continue that night to count with a bracha.<ref>Chazon Ovadia p. 240, Piskei Teshuvot 489:24 quoting the Shaarei Teshuva, Igrot Moshe 4:99, and Shraga Hameir 6:41 based on Taz 600</ref> | ||
#Sephardim have a minhag to count the sefirat haomer after Shacharit every day so that in case someone forgot they will have fixed it.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 489:80 and Yalkut Yosef 489:25 (Moadim n. 18) write that the minhag is to count the sefirat haomer after Shacharit each day so that if someone forgot to count at night they will have counted during the day and continue the next night.</ref> Ashkenazim don't have that minhag.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 2:247 writes that the Ashkenazi minhag is not to count each day after Shacharit because doing so would be considered baal tosif to validate the day for sefirat haomer which isn't true according to some rishonim. Rivevot Efraim 1:331 writes that in fact this difference of minhagim appears in the Maharshal (end of Bava Kama n. 44) that in Israel they would count after Shacharit each day but in Bavel they wouldn't.</ref> | #Sephardim have a minhag to count the sefirat haomer after Shacharit every day so that in case someone forgot they will have fixed it.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 489:80 and Yalkut Yosef 489:25 (Moadim n. 18) write that the minhag is to count the sefirat haomer after Shacharit each day so that if someone forgot to count at night they will have counted during the day and continue the next night.</ref> Ashkenazim don't have that minhag.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 2:247 writes that the Ashkenazi minhag is not to count each day after Shacharit because doing so would be considered baal tosif to validate the day for sefirat haomer which isn't true according to some rishonim. Rivevot Efraim 1:331 writes that in fact this difference of minhagim appears in the Maharshal (end of Bava Kama n. 44) that in Israel they would count after Shacharit each day but in Bavel they wouldn't.</ref> | ||
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==If someone asks the day of the Omer== | ==If someone asks the day of the Omer== | ||
#If someone asks "What day of the Omer is it?" if one hasn't fulfilled one's obligation yet, one should answer that "yesterday was such and such" rather than answering "today is such and such in the Omer" because if one were to do so, then one would fulfill one's obligation without having made the Bracha (and wouldn't be allowed to then say the Bracha). <ref>Shulchan Aruch 489:4 </ref> | #If someone asks "What day of the Omer is it?" if one hasn't fulfilled one's obligation yet, one should answer that "yesterday was such and such" rather than answering "today is such and such in the Omer" because if one were to do so, then one would fulfill one's obligation without having made the Bracha (and wouldn't be allowed to then say the Bracha).<ref>Shulchan Aruch 489:4 </ref> | ||
#If it's before [[Shekiah]] then one may answer the day in the Omer in a straightforward manner and still say that night's Omer with a Bracha. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 489:4 </ref>However, because of a minority opinion that one fulfills one's obligation by counting after Plag [[Mincha]], even before [[Shekiyah]], one should be careful not to answer in a straightforward manner but rather say "yesterday was such and such".<ref>Kaf HaChaim 489:52 quoting Shulchan Aruch 489:15</ref> | #If it's before [[Shekiah]] then one may answer the day in the Omer in a straightforward manner and still say that night's Omer with a Bracha.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 489:4 </ref> However, because of a minority opinion that one fulfills one's obligation by counting after Plag [[Mincha]], even before [[Shekiyah]], one should be careful not to answer in a straightforward manner but rather say "yesterday was such and such".<ref>Kaf HaChaim 489:52 quoting Shulchan Aruch 489:15</ref> | ||
#If a person asks the day of the Omer and one answered by saying the number of the Omer without saying the number of weeks many authoriites hold that one hasn't fulfilled one's obligation and one should repeat the counting with a Bracha <ref>Sh"t Maharash HaLevi Siman 5 ([http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1834&st=&pgnum=16&hilite= see it inside]) argues at length that the mitzvah includes an element of counting the days and an element of counting weeks and if one lacks either one the obligation wasn't fulfilled and one should repeat it with a Bracha. The Mishna Brurah 489:22 (and Shaar HaTziyun 489:28) hold like the Eliyah Rabba who also holds that if one didn't count the weeks one must repeat the counting with a Bracha. </ref>, while others argue that one should repeat the counting without a Bracha <ref>Knesset HaGedolah on Bet Yosef 489 s.v. VaAni </ref>, and some make a compromise to obligate one in repeating the counting with a Bracha on days when a week is completed. <ref>Shaar HaTziyun 489:28 in name of the Pri [[Chadash]] </ref> | #If a person asks the day of the Omer and one answered by saying the number of the Omer without saying the number of weeks many authoriites hold that one hasn't fulfilled one's obligation and one should repeat the counting with a Bracha <ref>Sh"t Maharash HaLevi Siman 5 ([http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1834&st=&pgnum=16&hilite= see it inside]) argues at length that the mitzvah includes an element of counting the days and an element of counting weeks and if one lacks either one the obligation wasn't fulfilled and one should repeat it with a Bracha. The Mishna Brurah 489:22 (and Shaar HaTziyun 489:28) hold like the Eliyah Rabba who also holds that if one didn't count the weeks one must repeat the counting with a Bracha. </ref>, while others argue that one should repeat the counting without a Bracha <ref>Knesset HaGedolah on Bet Yosef 489 s.v. VaAni </ref>, and some make a compromise to obligate one in repeating the counting with a Bracha on days when a week is completed. <ref>Shaar HaTziyun 489:28 in name of the Pri [[Chadash]] </ref> | ||
#Some say that if a person answered the number in abbreviation (such as Lag for 33 or Dalet for 4) one has not fulfilled one’s obligation and one should repeat counting the Sefirah with a Bracha. <ref>Sh"t Maharash HaLevi Siman 5 </ref> while others hold that one fulfills one's obligation with an abbreviation and one should not repeat the Omer with a Bracha. <ref>Knesset HaGedolah on Bet Yosef 489 s.v. VaAni </ref> | #Some say that if a person answered the number in abbreviation (such as Lag for 33 or Dalet for 4) one has not fulfilled one’s obligation and one should repeat counting the Sefirah with a Bracha. <ref>Sh"t Maharash HaLevi Siman 5 </ref> while others hold that one fulfills one's obligation with an abbreviation and one should not repeat the Omer with a Bracha. <ref>Knesset HaGedolah on Bet Yosef 489 s.v. VaAni </ref> | ||
