My daughter brought me keys for Passover. Keys to front doors and back doors long abandoned and long forgotten; keys to private homes and public kitchens; keys to closets and cabinets, old hotel rooms, cars, rusty mailboxes, forsaken lockers and safes. Keys to who knows where and who remembers what? I use them for my omer counter. Each day of the omer, from the second day of Passover to the holiday of Shavuot, we count. Day One of the Omer; Day Two of the Omer; Day Three of the Omer…. To remind us which day we are on, and to serve as a mnemonic so we don’t forget to count altogether, folk art has created a vast array of Omer Counters. Our youngest son used to create a simple cross-hatch poster that hung in our kitchen. This year, he… read more
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