(Laws of Continual and Additional Offerings, Chapter 7, Law 24) wrote that women are not required to count the Omer, and this is also mentioned in the Zohar (Parshat Tetzaveh). However, the Magen Avraham (Siman 489, 1) wrote that they have accepted this upon themselves as an obligation. Nevertheless, all other authorities disagreed with his opinion, as elaborated by the author of the Minchat Chinuch (Mitzvah 306). They also wrote that according to the Zohar (Parshat Emor), they should not count. In the home of Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky of blessed memory, the women did count the Omer. However, Sephardic women must be cautioned that even if they count, they should not recite a blessing over the counting, as it is the opinion of our Sephardic Rabbis that women do not recite a blessing over a positive time-bound commandment