<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></b></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">388. One may count the </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Omer</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> in any language, however one must understand what he is saying.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 489:1</span></font></em></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">(Would this mean that if someone didn't understand Hebrew, he should do it in his mama lashon)?</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">389. One should </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">L'chatchila</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> count while standing. However, </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">b'dieved</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, if one counted while sitting he is </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Yoitze</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 489:1</span></font></em></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">(Why, then, would someone be sitting, b'dieved, if he knew he should have been standing </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">l'chatchila</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">)?</span></font></div></span></div></span></body></html>