[Avodah] Hilchos Sefirah

[Michael Makovi]

> > 389. One should L'chatchila count while standing. However, b'dieved, if one
> > counted while sitting he is Yoitze.
> > Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 489:1

> (Why, then, would someone be sitting, b'dieved, if he knew he should have
> been standing l'chatchila)?
> R' Wolberg

You are really asking "Why does anyone do anything b'dieved?"

Perhaps he was sitting and counted the omer, and only during counting
realized. (I've done this with Aleinu; I was already sitting for, say,
tachanun, and I went straight into Aleinu. It can happen if you aren't
with a minyan.) Or perhaps he realized during the day (say, while
reading the newspaper) that he didn't count the previous night, and he
immediately and spontaneously counted, without standing up first.

Mikha'el Makovi