Sefirat HaOmer - The counting of the Omer

What position should one be in when counting Sefira?

• standing

• sitting

• either standing or sitting

• it's a machlokes

What does "עומר" mean?

• counting

• a measurement (of barley)

• another name for the second day of Pesach

• Say

If someone forgot to count at night, and he remembers the next morning, what should he do?

• Count without Brocho that day and later days with brocho

• Count with Brocho that day and following days

• Just continue counting from that night with a brocho

• Just continue counting from that night without a brocho

If you forgot to count one night, and you only remembered the following night, what should you do?

• Continue counting all nights without a Brocho

• Continue counting all nights with a Brocho

• You don't need to count anymore

• It's a Machlokes

If someone asks you, after sunset, what day of the עומר he is supposed to count, what should you not answer?

• Tonight is ...

• Yesterday was ...

• Point to the number

• Show him on your fingers

Why should you not tell someone what that night's number is if it's after sunset?

• because then you have fulfilled the Mitzva and can no longer make the Brocho

• because he should know it on his own

• In case you mix him up

• because everyone is meant to say it themselves

Which sad event happened during the period of Sefirat Haomer?

• The Jews of Beitar were massacred by the Romans

• The students of Rabbi Akiva passed away

• Jews were massacred during the crusades

• Jews were massacred during the Cossack uprising

How many students did Rabbi Akiva have?

• 24,000

• 12,000

• 2,400

• 48,000

Which of these things can't we do during Sefira?

There is more than one answer. You must select all of them

• Marriage

• Engagement

• Haircuts

• Singing

What did not happen on ל"ג בעומר?

• The students of Rabbi Akiva stopped dying

• Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai passed away

• Rabbi Akiva passed away