The Chabad.org’s Omer Counter app just registered the millionth counting of the Omer as part of the “Omer Challenge.”
The “Omer Challenge” encourages Jews around the world to take part in Sefirat HaOmer—the mitzvah of counting up the days until the holiday of Shavuot, when we celebrate the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
Chabad.org’s “Omer Counter” app reminds users to count each evening and guides them through the mitzvah, along with offering a unique daily meditation and the ability to check off whether the Omer has been counted.
By using anonymized data, the app’s engine automatically keeps track of aggregated Omer counts and then updates the live counter accessible from the app, as well as on the “Omer Challenge” website.
Exactly 33 days into the challenge, the combined count passed 1,000,000 counts—each of which is a mitzvah, a Torah commandment—well before the holiday of Shavuot.
The Chabad.org family of apps is made possible by the generous partnership of Dovid and Malkie Smetana, Alan and Lori Zekelman, the Meromim Fund, and Moris and Lillian Tabacinic.
