A brief introduction...

[gnomi]

...because the number of questions has hit an arbitrary critical mass.


Friends list? The Omer.

Omer? Meet my friends list.

The link is to part of a great site for information about all sorts of aspects of Judaism, from the basic to the more obscure.

(The explanation at Judaism 101 is much clearer and more concise than anything I could write up on my own.)

ETA: Today is the 14th day of the omer.

Comments

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

i always wanted to be a part of a critical mass.

(oh the images in my head! and the priest, and the being critical, and the weirdness...)

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you, Omer. Kind of a bummer about the 7 week mourning period thing tho.

[ckd]

If you lose count, do you have to start all omer again?

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

bravo!