BMT — Words of Torah (my blog!) — Rabbi Amy Josefa Ariel (she/her)

19 Days of the Omer. That is 2 Weeks and 5 Days.

Hod shebe Tiferet
Gratitude within Beauty
Saturday evening May 11 and Sunday May 12
That is 4,749 days I have counted since my bone marrow transplant on May 12, 2011.
Which was the 8th of Iyar that year.
This year, the 8th of Iyar is May 16th.
I’m going to go ahead and celebrate both days.

The sun glows extra warmly tonight as it sets and one by one, and group by group, so many people come to walk with me that a Biblical author would tell you we count in the thousands. Tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands.

Jewish HolidaysAmy ArielMay 11, 2024Omer, AML, Hod, Tiferet, Sefirat haOmer, BMT, Gratitude, BeautyComment

The Days of the Years

VAYIGASH

I received my first blood transfusion, of A- blood, on December 16, 2010 the night before I was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia - 2,214 days ago as of this Shabbat.

TORAHAmy ArielJanuary 2, 2017AML, BMT, blood donation, Vayigash, TorahComment