Adar II 25, 5771 ·
3 31, 2011
EDITORIAL
JOIN SOAR-(SEED OF ABRAHAM RE-UNITED)
This a call to Unity. The Three Great faiths, Islam, Christianity and Judaism and all of its variants have one thing in common, The Great Father Abraham of Blessed Memory was the Father of all three. I ask you to think back with me to the great days of Sepharad, when members of all three faiths lived together in peaceful unity and prospered, invented, and created one of the greasted cultures in the history of mankind whose scholars and wise men were so brilliant that they in effect defined a new era in human history. I want you to consider all of the violence and strife and warfare and sorrow in the middle East and throughout the world. mudst it go on? I say what harm is there in thinking an dreaming of a simple alternative? Peace. Why not unite and seek peaceful solutions? What has all of the violence accomplished? How many more people must die before everyone comes to realize that hatred is not the answer? As the people of The middle East and North Africa reach towards the gleaming hope of democracy, i want to challenge each and everyone of you to be a seed of hope, a seed of peace a seed of unity in between the three great faith and all of mankind! Dare to SOAR! Dare to dream! Dare to hope! Dare to believe! Dare to unite! Rivers and oceans of blood need not flow! Open the windows of your heart and let a gentle dove fly in with a sprig of the olive tree in it's beek! In this mad and crazy world lets us be peacemakers! Do you know christians? Do you Muslims? Do you know Jews? Please invite them to join this group. Hatred accomplish nothing but to beget more hatred, but in love, in peace and mutual respect all things are possible. The unity that once existed in Sepharad in between the three faiths that arose from Abraham can be restored. Yet where does it begin? It begins with us. Dare to make the dream of peace for all of the seed of father Abraham real! In the name of the creatorI bid you Salam, Shalom, peace, and paz!
Today's Mitzvah
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Khah´mee´shee..... Fifth day
כ וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים--יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם, שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה; וְעוֹף יְעוֹפֵף עַל-הָאָרֶץ, עַל-פְּנֵי רְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם. 20
And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'
כא וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הַתַּנִּינִם הַגְּדֹלִים; וְאֵת כָּל-נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת אֲשֶׁר שָׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם לְמִינֵהֶם, וְאֵת כָּל-עוֹף כָּנָף לְמִינֵהוּ, וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 21
And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
כב וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, לֵאמֹר: פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ, וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הַמַּיִם בַּיַּמִּים, וְהָעוֹף, יִרֶב בָּאָרֶץ. 22 And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'
כג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי. {פ} 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. {P}
A daily digest of Maimonides' classic work
"Sefer Hamitzvot"
Principle 1
1) Do not count Rabbinic Commandments in this list. E.g. lighting Chanukah candles or reciting the Hallel.
2) Indeed, this seems obvious, for the Talmud says that 613 mitzvot "were given to Moses at Sinai," and rabbinic mitzvot were not instituted until later dates. But in truth, we follow rabbinic rulings because of a biblical mandate: "You shall not divert from the word they tell you, either right or left" (Deuteronomy17:11); and as such, before performing a rabbinic mitzvah, we say a blessing in which we thank G‑d for "sanctifying us with His commandments and commanding us to..." Nevertheless, the individual rabbinic precepts are not counted as part of the 613 (and, are considered "rabbinic," a classification that has certain halachic implications).
Principle 2
1) Do not include laws which are derived from one of the Thirteen Principles of Torah Exegesis.
2) Every word and letter in the Torah is exact, and the Sages extrapolated many laws from an extra (or missing) word or letter, or a particular sequence which the Torah chooses to use (click here for more on this topic). Nevertheless, unless the Sages explicitly say that a particular law that they derived is categorized as biblical, it is not counted as part of the 613.
3) An example of this is the obligation to accord honor to parents-in-law, a precept derived from an extra word ("et") in a verse. Though the Torah alludes to the concept, it is not considered a biblical command.
Principle 3
Do not count mitzvot which are not binding on all generations. E.g. the laws regarding the disassembly of the Tabernacle, or the prohibition against waging war on Amon and Moab, which only applied to the Israelites in the desert.
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Today is: Thursday, Adar II 25, 5771 · 3 31, 2011
Today in Jewish History
• Nebuchadnezzar died (397 BCE)
1) Death of King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian emperor who conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the first Holy Temple 26 years earlier, died on the 25th of Adar of the year 3364 from creation. (Jeremiah 52:31)
• Rebbetzin's Birthday (1901)
1) Rebbetzin Chaya Mushkah Schneerson (1901-1988) of righteous memory, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe of righteous memory, was born on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar, in Babinovich, a town near the Russian city of Lubavitch, in the year 5661 from creation (1901). In an address delivered on the 25 of Adar of 1988 (the Rebbetzin's 87th birthday, and about a month after her passing), the Rebbe initiated an international birthday campaign, urging people to celebrate their birthdays and utilize the day as a time of introspection and making resolutions involving an increase in good deeds.
Daily Quote
1) When you arrive in the Land to which I am bringing you; and you eat from the bread of the Land, you shall set aside a gift for G-d. The first portion of your dough, you shall raise up as challah...
a) Numbers 15:18-20
Daily Study
1) Chitas and Rambam for today:
2) Chumash: Tazria, 5th Portion Leviticus 13:29-13:39 with Rashi
3) Tehillim: Chapter 119, Verses 1-96
4) Tanya: Likutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 38
5) Rambam:
a) Sefer Hamitzvos:
b) 1 Chapter: Tum'at Okhalin Chap. 11
c) 3 Chapters: Positive Commandments Part 1, Positive Commandments Part 2, Positive Commandments Part 3
6) Hayom Yom:
Armed conflict and attacks
1) 2010–2011 Middle East and North Africa protests:
2) 2011 Syrian protests
3) Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, blames turmoil on 'conspirators' (Haaretz)
4) 2011 Libyan uprising
5) Libya FM defects from government, seeks refuge in Britain (Haaretz)
6) Obama authorized covert support for Libya rebels (Haaretz)
Business and economy
1) Google has agreed with the US Federal Trade Commission to have an independent privacy audit every couple of years as a result of problems with the Google Buzz social network. (BBC)
Disasters
1) The death toll from flooding in Southern Thailand rises to thirteen. (Phuket Wan)
2) Radiation exceeding evacuation levels is found 40 kilometres ftom the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant outside the exclusion zone. (Herald Sun)
International relations
1) The Gaddafi government in Libya asks former Nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann to represent it in the United Nations. (AP via Yahoo News)
Law and crime
Moriarty Tribunal:
1) Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirms that disgraced former minister Michael Lowry is to be censured by Dáil Éireann today without any discussion of the matter, following two days of debate on the tribunal's findings. (The Irish Times)
2) Michael Lowry refuses to resign from Dáil Éireann. (The Irish Times)
3) Baidu deletes 2.8 million works from Baidu Wenku as part of a copyright dispute. (BBC)
4) Libyan foreign minister defects to the UK
5) US President Obama considering supplying arms to Libyan rebels
3 31, 2011
EDITORIAL
JOIN SOAR-(SEED OF ABRAHAM RE-UNITED)
This a call to Unity. The Three Great faiths, Islam, Christianity and Judaism and all of its variants have one thing in common, The Great Father Abraham of Blessed Memory was the Father of all three. I ask you to think back with me to the great days of Sepharad, when members of all three faiths lived together in peaceful unity and prospered, invented, and created one of the greasted cultures in the history of mankind whose scholars and wise men were so brilliant that they in effect defined a new era in human history. I want you to consider all of the violence and strife and warfare and sorrow in the middle East and throughout the world. mudst it go on? I say what harm is there in thinking an dreaming of a simple alternative? Peace. Why not unite and seek peaceful solutions? What has all of the violence accomplished? How many more people must die before everyone comes to realize that hatred is not the answer? As the people of The middle East and North Africa reach towards the gleaming hope of democracy, i want to challenge each and everyone of you to be a seed of hope, a seed of peace a seed of unity in between the three great faith and all of mankind! Dare to SOAR! Dare to dream! Dare to hope! Dare to believe! Dare to unite! Rivers and oceans of blood need not flow! Open the windows of your heart and let a gentle dove fly in with a sprig of the olive tree in it's beek! In this mad and crazy world lets us be peacemakers! Do you know christians? Do you Muslims? Do you know Jews? Please invite them to join this group. Hatred accomplish nothing but to beget more hatred, but in love, in peace and mutual respect all things are possible. The unity that once existed in Sepharad in between the three faiths that arose from Abraham can be restored. Yet where does it begin? It begins with us. Dare to make the dream of peace for all of the seed of father Abraham real! In the name of the creatorI bid you Salam, Shalom, peace, and paz!
Today's Mitzvah
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Khah´mee´shee..... Fifth day
כ וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים--יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם, שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה; וְעוֹף יְעוֹפֵף עַל-הָאָרֶץ, עַל-פְּנֵי רְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם. 20
And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'
כא וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הַתַּנִּינִם הַגְּדֹלִים; וְאֵת כָּל-נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת אֲשֶׁר שָׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם לְמִינֵהֶם, וְאֵת כָּל-עוֹף כָּנָף לְמִינֵהוּ, וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 21
And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
כב וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, לֵאמֹר: פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ, וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הַמַּיִם בַּיַּמִּים, וְהָעוֹף, יִרֶב בָּאָרֶץ. 22 And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'
כג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי. {פ} 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. {P}
A daily digest of Maimonides' classic work
"Sefer Hamitzvot"
Principle 1
1) Do not count Rabbinic Commandments in this list. E.g. lighting Chanukah candles or reciting the Hallel.
2) Indeed, this seems obvious, for the Talmud says that 613 mitzvot "were given to Moses at Sinai," and rabbinic mitzvot were not instituted until later dates. But in truth, we follow rabbinic rulings because of a biblical mandate: "You shall not divert from the word they tell you, either right or left" (Deuteronomy17:11); and as such, before performing a rabbinic mitzvah, we say a blessing in which we thank G‑d for "sanctifying us with His commandments and commanding us to..." Nevertheless, the individual rabbinic precepts are not counted as part of the 613 (and, are considered "rabbinic," a classification that has certain halachic implications).
Principle 2
1) Do not include laws which are derived from one of the Thirteen Principles of Torah Exegesis.
2) Every word and letter in the Torah is exact, and the Sages extrapolated many laws from an extra (or missing) word or letter, or a particular sequence which the Torah chooses to use (click here for more on this topic). Nevertheless, unless the Sages explicitly say that a particular law that they derived is categorized as biblical, it is not counted as part of the 613.
3) An example of this is the obligation to accord honor to parents-in-law, a precept derived from an extra word ("et") in a verse. Though the Torah alludes to the concept, it is not considered a biblical command.
Principle 3
Do not count mitzvot which are not binding on all generations. E.g. the laws regarding the disassembly of the Tabernacle, or the prohibition against waging war on Amon and Moab, which only applied to the Israelites in the desert.
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Today is: Thursday, Adar II 25, 5771 · 3 31, 2011
Today in Jewish History
• Nebuchadnezzar died (397 BCE)
1) Death of King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian emperor who conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the first Holy Temple 26 years earlier, died on the 25th of Adar of the year 3364 from creation. (Jeremiah 52:31)
• Rebbetzin's Birthday (1901)
1) Rebbetzin Chaya Mushkah Schneerson (1901-1988) of righteous memory, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe of righteous memory, was born on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar, in Babinovich, a town near the Russian city of Lubavitch, in the year 5661 from creation (1901). In an address delivered on the 25 of Adar of 1988 (the Rebbetzin's 87th birthday, and about a month after her passing), the Rebbe initiated an international birthday campaign, urging people to celebrate their birthdays and utilize the day as a time of introspection and making resolutions involving an increase in good deeds.
Daily Quote
1) When you arrive in the Land to which I am bringing you; and you eat from the bread of the Land, you shall set aside a gift for G-d. The first portion of your dough, you shall raise up as challah...
a) Numbers 15:18-20
Daily Study
1) Chitas and Rambam for today:
2) Chumash: Tazria, 5th Portion Leviticus 13:29-13:39 with Rashi
3) Tehillim: Chapter 119, Verses 1-96
4) Tanya: Likutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 38
5) Rambam:
a) Sefer Hamitzvos:
b) 1 Chapter: Tum'at Okhalin Chap. 11
c) 3 Chapters: Positive Commandments Part 1, Positive Commandments Part 2, Positive Commandments Part 3
6) Hayom Yom:
Armed conflict and attacks
1) 2010–2011 Middle East and North Africa protests:
2) 2011 Syrian protests
3) Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, blames turmoil on 'conspirators' (Haaretz)
4) 2011 Libyan uprising
5) Libya FM defects from government, seeks refuge in Britain (Haaretz)
6) Obama authorized covert support for Libya rebels (Haaretz)
Business and economy
1) Google has agreed with the US Federal Trade Commission to have an independent privacy audit every couple of years as a result of problems with the Google Buzz social network. (BBC)
Disasters
1) The death toll from flooding in Southern Thailand rises to thirteen. (Phuket Wan)
2) Radiation exceeding evacuation levels is found 40 kilometres ftom the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant outside the exclusion zone. (Herald Sun)
International relations
1) The Gaddafi government in Libya asks former Nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann to represent it in the United Nations. (AP via Yahoo News)
Law and crime
Moriarty Tribunal:
1) Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirms that disgraced former minister Michael Lowry is to be censured by Dáil Éireann today without any discussion of the matter, following two days of debate on the tribunal's findings. (The Irish Times)
2) Michael Lowry refuses to resign from Dáil Éireann. (The Irish Times)
3) Baidu deletes 2.8 million works from Baidu Wenku as part of a copyright dispute. (BBC)
4) Libyan foreign minister defects to the UK
5) US President Obama considering supplying arms to Libyan rebels
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