• Iyar 22, 5771 • 5 26, 2011
•TWO DAYS TO SHABBAT!!
News Summary
• The Spirit rover (artist's rendering pictured) mission on Mars is formally concluded by NASA after six years of planetary exploration.
• The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, is broadcast in the United States, concluding a 25-year run.
• Iceland's Grímsvötn volcano erupts, causing flight cancellations in northern Europe.
• The Democratic Rally, led by Nicos Anastasiades, win a plurality after an election in Cyprus.
• PNS Mehran, a Pakistani naval base in Karachi, is attacked by militants.
• At least 124 people are killed by a tornado, among the deadliest in U.S. history, in Joplin, Missouri.
• Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Current events
• Armed conflicts and attacks
• 2011 Yemeni protests:
• Large explosions are reported in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a in the midst of ongoing protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh; opposition forces claim that the violence threatens to escalate into a civil war. (Reuters)
• The United States Department of State warns Americans not to travel to Yemen, and recommends US citizens in the country to leave due to ""terrorist activities and civil unrest". (CNN)
• The General Directorate of Security reports an explosion in Istanbul, Turkey, most likely caused by a bomb, with a number of people injured. (AP via Google News), (Al-Jazeera)
• Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President of Southern Sudan calls on the government of Sudan to withdraw from the province of Abyei. (Reuters)
• International relations
• The United States announces the removal of a number of troops from Pakistan, following a request from the Pakistani government. (BBC)
• Leaders of the Group of Eight countries meet in Deauville, France for the 37th G8 summit. (AFP via Google News)
• Law and crime
• The media reports that a man suspected of being war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia. (AP via Palm Beach Post), (SBS News)
• 'George Davis is innocent - OK': UK court partially vindicates campaign after 36 years
• Today in Judaism
• Omer: Day 37 - Gevurah sheb'Yesod
• Today's Laws & Customs
• Count "Thirty-Eight Days to the Omer" Tonight
• Tomorrow is the thirty-eighth day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall of the previous evening, we count the omer for tomorrow's date tonight, after nightfall: "Today is thirty-eight days, which are five weeks and three days, to the Omer." (If you miss the count tonight, you can count the omer all day tomorrow, but without the preceding blessing).
• The 49-day "Counting of the Omer" retraces our ancestors' seven-week spiritual journey from the Exodus to Sinai. Each evening we recite a special blessing and count the days and weeks that have passed since the Omer; the 50th day is Shavuot, the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
• Tonight's Sefirah: Tifferet sheb'Yesod -- "Harmony in Connection"
• The teachings of Kabbalah explain that there are seven "Divine Attributes" -- Sefirot -- that G-d assumes through which to relate to our existence: Chessed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut ("Love", "Strength", "Beauty", "Victory", "Splendor", "Foundation" and "Sovereignty"). In the human being, created in the "image of G-d," the seven sefirot are mirrored in the seven "emotional attributes" of the human soul: Kindness, Restraint, Harmony, Ambition, Humility, Connection and Receptiveness. Each of the seven attributes contain elements of all seven--i.e., "Kindness in Kindness", "Restraint in Kindness", "Harmony in Kindness", etc.--making for a total of forty-nine traits. The 49-day Omer Count is thus a 49-step process of self-refinement, with each day devoted to the "rectification" and perfection of one the forty-nine "sefirot."
• Today in Jewish History
• Shabbat Commanded (1313 BCE)
• Following the descent of the manna (the miraculous "Bread from Heaven" that sustained the Israelites in the desert), G-d commanded the Children of Israel to keep the Shabbat. This Shabbat was the 22nd of Iyar, of the year 2448 from Creation (1313 BCE) (see "Today in Jewish History" for Iyar 15).
• On that Friday morning, enough manna fell for two days' worth of meals, as on the Shabbat it would be prohibited to gather the manna. The "Two Loaves" of challah bread (Lechem Mishneh) that form the foundation of our Shabbat meal are in commemoration of the double portion of manna.
• The Manna
• Jewish Books Confiscated (1731)
• Giovanni Antonio Costanzi, the Vatican librarian and author of a catalogue of the Vatican's Hebrew manuscripts, directed searches in all the Jewish quarters throughout the Papal States to confiscate Jewish holy books. The confiscation begun on the 22nd Iyar in 1731. More confiscations continued over the next twenty years.
• Hungarian Jews Deported (1944)
• Two months after the Nazi occupation of Hungary, where the Jewish population prior to WWII was 725,000, the Nazis began deportation of the Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• Eichmann personally oversaw the following day the start of the extermination process. Eight days later an estimated 100,000 had been murdered.
• Daily Quote
• You shall have no other gods before Me
- Exodus 20:3
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Bamidbar, 5th Portion Numbers 3:14-3:39 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 106 - 107
• Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 50
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Hilchot Nizkei Mammon Chapter Twelve
• 3 Chapters: Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter Six, Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter Seven, Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter Eight
• Hayom Yom:
• ''Today's Day''
• Iyar 22, 37th day of the omer
• Print this Page
• ThursdayIyar 22, 37th day of the omer5703
• Torah lessons: Chumash: B'chukotai, Chamishi with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 106-107.
• Tanya: Ch. 50. All the (p. 261)...interpose,...G-d forbid. (p.263).
• Several of the early chassidim had a farbrengen sometime between 5544-47 (1784-87) and the core of the discussion was this: The Rebbe (the Alter Rebbe) had accomplished something novel - that we are not alone. At one time, the Master - Rosh Yeshiva or Talmudic sage - was "alone" and his disciples were "alone." The chassidic way instituted by the Rebbe is a tremendous Divine achievement, that the Rebbe is not alone, nor are the chassidim alone.
• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
• Iyar 22, 5771 •5 26, 2011Today's Mitzvah
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
• Positive Commandment 169
• Taking the Four Species
• "And you shall take for yourselves on the first day..."—Leviticus 23:40.
• We are commanded to take a lulav (palm branch) [along with willows, myrtles and a citron] and rejoice before G‑d on the seven days of the holiday of Sukkot.
• Only in the area of the Holy Temple is this mitzvah biblically mandatory for the seven days of the holiday. In all other locations, the biblical obligation extends only to the first day of the holiday.
• Women are exempt from this 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}
•TWO DAYS TO SHABBAT!!
News Summary
• The Spirit rover (artist's rendering pictured) mission on Mars is formally concluded by NASA after six years of planetary exploration.
• The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, is broadcast in the United States, concluding a 25-year run.
• Iceland's Grímsvötn volcano erupts, causing flight cancellations in northern Europe.
• The Democratic Rally, led by Nicos Anastasiades, win a plurality after an election in Cyprus.
• PNS Mehran, a Pakistani naval base in Karachi, is attacked by militants.
• At least 124 people are killed by a tornado, among the deadliest in U.S. history, in Joplin, Missouri.
• Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Current events
• Armed conflicts and attacks
• 2011 Yemeni protests:
• Large explosions are reported in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a in the midst of ongoing protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh; opposition forces claim that the violence threatens to escalate into a civil war. (Reuters)
• The United States Department of State warns Americans not to travel to Yemen, and recommends US citizens in the country to leave due to ""terrorist activities and civil unrest". (CNN)
• The General Directorate of Security reports an explosion in Istanbul, Turkey, most likely caused by a bomb, with a number of people injured. (AP via Google News), (Al-Jazeera)
• Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President of Southern Sudan calls on the government of Sudan to withdraw from the province of Abyei. (Reuters)
• International relations
• The United States announces the removal of a number of troops from Pakistan, following a request from the Pakistani government. (BBC)
• Leaders of the Group of Eight countries meet in Deauville, France for the 37th G8 summit. (AFP via Google News)
• Law and crime
• The media reports that a man suspected of being war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia. (AP via Palm Beach Post), (SBS News)
• 'George Davis is innocent - OK': UK court partially vindicates campaign after 36 years
• Today in Judaism
• Omer: Day 37 - Gevurah sheb'Yesod
• Today's Laws & Customs
• Count "Thirty-Eight Days to the Omer" Tonight
• Tomorrow is the thirty-eighth day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall of the previous evening, we count the omer for tomorrow's date tonight, after nightfall: "Today is thirty-eight days, which are five weeks and three days, to the Omer." (If you miss the count tonight, you can count the omer all day tomorrow, but without the preceding blessing).
• The 49-day "Counting of the Omer" retraces our ancestors' seven-week spiritual journey from the Exodus to Sinai. Each evening we recite a special blessing and count the days and weeks that have passed since the Omer; the 50th day is Shavuot, the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
• Tonight's Sefirah: Tifferet sheb'Yesod -- "Harmony in Connection"
• The teachings of Kabbalah explain that there are seven "Divine Attributes" -- Sefirot -- that G-d assumes through which to relate to our existence: Chessed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut ("Love", "Strength", "Beauty", "Victory", "Splendor", "Foundation" and "Sovereignty"). In the human being, created in the "image of G-d," the seven sefirot are mirrored in the seven "emotional attributes" of the human soul: Kindness, Restraint, Harmony, Ambition, Humility, Connection and Receptiveness. Each of the seven attributes contain elements of all seven--i.e., "Kindness in Kindness", "Restraint in Kindness", "Harmony in Kindness", etc.--making for a total of forty-nine traits. The 49-day Omer Count is thus a 49-step process of self-refinement, with each day devoted to the "rectification" and perfection of one the forty-nine "sefirot."
• Today in Jewish History
• Shabbat Commanded (1313 BCE)
• Following the descent of the manna (the miraculous "Bread from Heaven" that sustained the Israelites in the desert), G-d commanded the Children of Israel to keep the Shabbat. This Shabbat was the 22nd of Iyar, of the year 2448 from Creation (1313 BCE) (see "Today in Jewish History" for Iyar 15).
• On that Friday morning, enough manna fell for two days' worth of meals, as on the Shabbat it would be prohibited to gather the manna. The "Two Loaves" of challah bread (Lechem Mishneh) that form the foundation of our Shabbat meal are in commemoration of the double portion of manna.
• The Manna
• Jewish Books Confiscated (1731)
• Giovanni Antonio Costanzi, the Vatican librarian and author of a catalogue of the Vatican's Hebrew manuscripts, directed searches in all the Jewish quarters throughout the Papal States to confiscate Jewish holy books. The confiscation begun on the 22nd Iyar in 1731. More confiscations continued over the next twenty years.
• Hungarian Jews Deported (1944)
• Two months after the Nazi occupation of Hungary, where the Jewish population prior to WWII was 725,000, the Nazis began deportation of the Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• Eichmann personally oversaw the following day the start of the extermination process. Eight days later an estimated 100,000 had been murdered.
• Daily Quote
• You shall have no other gods before Me
- Exodus 20:3
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Bamidbar, 5th Portion Numbers 3:14-3:39 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 106 - 107
• Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 50
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Hilchot Nizkei Mammon Chapter Twelve
• 3 Chapters: Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter Six, Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter Seven, Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter Eight
• Hayom Yom:
• ''Today's Day''
• Iyar 22, 37th day of the omer
• Print this Page
• ThursdayIyar 22, 37th day of the omer5703
• Torah lessons: Chumash: B'chukotai, Chamishi with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 106-107.
• Tanya: Ch. 50. All the (p. 261)...interpose,...G-d forbid. (p.263).
• Several of the early chassidim had a farbrengen sometime between 5544-47 (1784-87) and the core of the discussion was this: The Rebbe (the Alter Rebbe) had accomplished something novel - that we are not alone. At one time, the Master - Rosh Yeshiva or Talmudic sage - was "alone" and his disciples were "alone." The chassidic way instituted by the Rebbe is a tremendous Divine achievement, that the Rebbe is not alone, nor are the chassidim alone.
• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
• Iyar 22, 5771 •5 26, 2011Today's Mitzvah
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
• Positive Commandment 169
• Taking the Four Species
• "And you shall take for yourselves on the first day..."—Leviticus 23:40.
• We are commanded to take a lulav (palm branch) [along with willows, myrtles and a citron] and rejoice before G‑d on the seven days of the holiday of Sukkot.
• Only in the area of the Holy Temple is this mitzvah biblically mandatory for the seven days of the holiday. In all other locations, the biblical obligation extends only to the first day of the holiday.
• Women are exempt from this 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}
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