• Today is: Iyar 6, 5771 • YOM SHLEE’SHEE, FOUR MORE DAYS TO SHABBAT! PREPARE! 5 10, 2011
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• Topics in the news
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• In the Singaporean general election, the People's Action Party (leader Lee Hsien Loong pictured) is returned to power, while the opposition wins its first Group Representation Constituency.
• In basketball, the Euroleague 2010–11 season concludes with Panathinaikos defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final.
• Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao retains his WBO Welterweight championship after defeating American Shane Mosley.
• Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros dies after a three-year battle with cancer.
• Voters in the United Kingdom reject the alternative vote system for future parliamentary elections.
• Established same-sex couples in Brazil are awarded the same legal rights as married heterosexual couples.
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• LIBYAN UNREST The Free Libyan Army
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• The Free Libyan Army, (Arabic: جيش التحرير الوطني الليبي jaysh al-taḥrīr al-waṭanī al-lībī) is an organisation affiliated with the National Transitional Council, which was constituted during the 2011 Libyan civil war by defected military members and civilian volunteers, in order to engage in battle against both remaining members of the Libyan Armed Forces and paramilitia loyal to the rule of Muammar Gaddafi. They are the heroicfreedom fighters who will end decades of tyranny in that troubled land. It is currently preparing in portions of Eastern Libya controlled by the Anti-Gaddafi forces for eventual full-on combat in Western Libya against pro-Gaddafi militants.[] They have battled for control of Benghazi, Misratah, Brega, Ajdabiya, Bin Jawad, and Ras Lanuf amongst other towns and there are claims that there are 8,000 soldiers in Benghazi equipped with a substantial amount of weapons captured from abandoned Libyan army depots, these include AK-47 and FN FAL rifles, RPGs, SPGs, anti-aircraft guns and even some tanks.[
• SYRIAN UNREST IN MAY
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• Alleged Iranian involvementU.S. president Barack Obama accused Iran of secretly aiding Bashar al-Assad in his efforts to quell the protests.[156] U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice has stated that there is evidence of active Iranian support for the Syrian government's crackdown on demonstrators.[157] Iran has denied any involvement in suppressing the protests.[158]
• Baniyas was divided on 1 May into zones of de facto control, with protesters largely controlling the south and security forces enforcing the laws of the government in the north.
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• On 5 6 2011, after Friday noon prayers, demonstrators rose in cities and towns across Syria to protest the regime. Video and audio of security forces responding, in some cases with lethal force, appeared online within an hour of protests beginning. 11 members of the Syrian army were killed by an armed group in Homs, as a result of an armed attack on a military checkpoint.[159] At least three dead and 20 injured were reported in Homs alone, with a total of 12 dead between Homs and Hama, and opposition leaders Mouaz al-Khatib and Riad Seif were detained allegedly by secret police. Tens of thousands reportedly marched in Damascus and its suburbs, and about 7,000 protesters wearing funeral shrouds and carrying olive branches and flowers gathered in Baniyas, vowing to "meet the army peacefully", according to Al Jazeera, whose Arabic-language channel broadcast live from the city for some minutes. Several thousand Syrians participated in a protest march to the vicinity of Deraa, but security forces maintaining a siege of the city refused to let them enter with supplies for its inhabitants.
• Following this "Day of Defiance", Amnesty International reported that activists Razan Zaitouneh, Wa’el Hammada, Haytham al-Maleh, Hind al-Labwani, Omar al-Labwani, Jwan Yousef Khorshid, Walid al-Bunni and Suheir al-Atassi had been forced to go into hiding
• One child, a 12-year-old boy, was killed during a government crackdown in Homs on 8 May, and another child, a 10-year-old boy, was arrested, anti-government activists claimed.
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• Current events of 10 5 2011 (2011-05-10)
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• Arts and culture
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• THE GOVERNATOR GETS HIS BUTT DUMPED! Former Governor of California and actor Arnold “THE GOVERNATOR “ Schwarzenegger and journalist Maria Shriver announced their separation after 25 years of marriage. (Washington Post)
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• Business and economy
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• Wayne Swan, the Treasurer of Australia, will deliver his fourth budget. (The Australian)
• Google launches Google Music, an application that will enable users to upload their music libraries to company servers. (CNet)
• Microsoft will announce that it is purchasing Internet phone service Skype for $US8.5 billion. (All Things Digital)
• Exports for the People's Republic of China for April reach a record level, attaining a total monthly value of $155.69 billion. (New York Times)
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• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
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• Iyar 6, 5771 • 5 10, 2011Today's Mitzvah
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
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• Negative Commandment 322
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• Administering the Death Penalty on Shabbat
• "You shall not kindle fire throughout your settlements on the Shabbat day"—Exodus 35:3.
• It is forbidden for the courts to administer punishments on Shabbat. The Sages interpreted the above verse as an injunction against executing a criminal via burning (one of the four methods of capital punishment employed by the courts) on Shabbat—and the same rule applies to all other forms of capital punishment. From this verse the Sages also extrapolated the prohibition against holding any court proceedings on Shabbat.
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• Today in Judaism
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• Omer: Day 21 - Malchut sheb'Tifferet
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• Today's Laws & Customs
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• Count "Twenty-Two Days to the Omer" Tonight
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• Tomorrow is the twenty-second 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 twenty-two days, which are three weeks and one day, 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.
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• Tonight's Sefirah: Chessed sheb'Netzach -- "Kindness in Ambition"
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• 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."
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• Anti-Jewish Riots in Russia (1881)
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• Following the assassination a month earlier of Tzar Alexander II of Russia, and the subsequent rumors that the Jews were behind the assassination, anti-Jewish riots broke out on the 6th of Iyar. The riots and pogroms lasted for four years, during which time thousands of Jewish homes and synagogues were destroyed, and countless Jews were injured and impoverished. The unrest started out in Southern Russia, and quickly spread throughout the entire country.
• Tzar Alexander III actually blamed the riots on the Jews(!) and punished them by enacting new laws which further restricted their freedoms. Among these devastating laws were legislation which restricted Jews from residing in towns with fewer than 10,000 citizens, and limiting their professional employment and education opportunities.
• These oppressive laws, known as the "May Laws," compelled many Jews to emigrate. They are said to have caused more than two million Jews to leave Russia, many of them opting to move to the United States of America, and the freedoms it offered.
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• Arab Countries Declare War on Israel (1948)
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• One day after the State of Israel was proclaimed (see Jewish History for the 5th of Iyar), the surrounding Arab nations -- Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq --declared war on the fledgling state, with the objective of "driving the Jews into the sea." Tel Aviv was bombed on that very first day of the War of Independence.
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• Daily Quote
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• One who locks the doors of his courtyard and feasts and drinks with his children and wife on the festivals, but does not feed the poor and the embittered -- this is not the joy of mitzvah but the joy of his stomach
- Maimonides
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Behar, 3rd Portion Leviticus 25:19-25:24 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 35 - 38
• Tanya: Likutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 46
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Mikvot Chap. 7
• 3 Chapters: Shabbos Chapter Fifteen, Shabbos Chapter Sixteen, Shabbos Chapter Seventeen
• Hayom Yom:
Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day
ט וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶל-מָקוֹם אֶחָד, וְתֵרָאֶה, הַיַּבָּשָׁה; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 9 And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.
י וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לַיַּבָּשָׁה אֶרֶץ, וּלְמִקְוֵה הַמַּיִם קָרָא יַמִּים; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 10
And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.
יא וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, תַּדְשֵׁא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, עֵץ פְּרִי עֹשֶׂה פְּרִי לְמִינוֹ, אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 11
And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
יב וַתּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, לְמִינֵהוּ, וְעֵץ עֹשֶׂה-פְּרִי אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ, לְמִינֵהוּ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 12
And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
יג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי. {פ} 13
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. {P}
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• Topics in the news
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• In the Singaporean general election, the People's Action Party (leader Lee Hsien Loong pictured) is returned to power, while the opposition wins its first Group Representation Constituency.
• In basketball, the Euroleague 2010–11 season concludes with Panathinaikos defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final.
• Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao retains his WBO Welterweight championship after defeating American Shane Mosley.
• Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros dies after a three-year battle with cancer.
• Voters in the United Kingdom reject the alternative vote system for future parliamentary elections.
• Established same-sex couples in Brazil are awarded the same legal rights as married heterosexual couples.
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• LIBYAN UNREST The Free Libyan Army
•
• The Free Libyan Army, (Arabic: جيش التحرير الوطني الليبي jaysh al-taḥrīr al-waṭanī al-lībī) is an organisation affiliated with the National Transitional Council, which was constituted during the 2011 Libyan civil war by defected military members and civilian volunteers, in order to engage in battle against both remaining members of the Libyan Armed Forces and paramilitia loyal to the rule of Muammar Gaddafi. They are the heroicfreedom fighters who will end decades of tyranny in that troubled land. It is currently preparing in portions of Eastern Libya controlled by the Anti-Gaddafi forces for eventual full-on combat in Western Libya against pro-Gaddafi militants.[] They have battled for control of Benghazi, Misratah, Brega, Ajdabiya, Bin Jawad, and Ras Lanuf amongst other towns and there are claims that there are 8,000 soldiers in Benghazi equipped with a substantial amount of weapons captured from abandoned Libyan army depots, these include AK-47 and FN FAL rifles, RPGs, SPGs, anti-aircraft guns and even some tanks.[
• SYRIAN UNREST IN MAY
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• Alleged Iranian involvementU.S. president Barack Obama accused Iran of secretly aiding Bashar al-Assad in his efforts to quell the protests.[156] U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice has stated that there is evidence of active Iranian support for the Syrian government's crackdown on demonstrators.[157] Iran has denied any involvement in suppressing the protests.[158]
• Baniyas was divided on 1 May into zones of de facto control, with protesters largely controlling the south and security forces enforcing the laws of the government in the north.
•
• On 5 6 2011, after Friday noon prayers, demonstrators rose in cities and towns across Syria to protest the regime. Video and audio of security forces responding, in some cases with lethal force, appeared online within an hour of protests beginning. 11 members of the Syrian army were killed by an armed group in Homs, as a result of an armed attack on a military checkpoint.[159] At least three dead and 20 injured were reported in Homs alone, with a total of 12 dead between Homs and Hama, and opposition leaders Mouaz al-Khatib and Riad Seif were detained allegedly by secret police. Tens of thousands reportedly marched in Damascus and its suburbs, and about 7,000 protesters wearing funeral shrouds and carrying olive branches and flowers gathered in Baniyas, vowing to "meet the army peacefully", according to Al Jazeera, whose Arabic-language channel broadcast live from the city for some minutes. Several thousand Syrians participated in a protest march to the vicinity of Deraa, but security forces maintaining a siege of the city refused to let them enter with supplies for its inhabitants.
• Following this "Day of Defiance", Amnesty International reported that activists Razan Zaitouneh, Wa’el Hammada, Haytham al-Maleh, Hind al-Labwani, Omar al-Labwani, Jwan Yousef Khorshid, Walid al-Bunni and Suheir al-Atassi had been forced to go into hiding
• One child, a 12-year-old boy, was killed during a government crackdown in Homs on 8 May, and another child, a 10-year-old boy, was arrested, anti-government activists claimed.
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• Current events of 10 5 2011 (2011-05-10)
•
• Arts and culture
•
• THE GOVERNATOR GETS HIS BUTT DUMPED! Former Governor of California and actor Arnold “THE GOVERNATOR “ Schwarzenegger and journalist Maria Shriver announced their separation after 25 years of marriage. (Washington Post)
•
• Business and economy
•
• Wayne Swan, the Treasurer of Australia, will deliver his fourth budget. (The Australian)
• Google launches Google Music, an application that will enable users to upload their music libraries to company servers. (CNet)
• Microsoft will announce that it is purchasing Internet phone service Skype for $US8.5 billion. (All Things Digital)
• Exports for the People's Republic of China for April reach a record level, attaining a total monthly value of $155.69 billion. (New York Times)
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• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
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• Iyar 6, 5771 • 5 10, 2011Today's Mitzvah
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
•
• Negative Commandment 322
•
• Administering the Death Penalty on Shabbat
• "You shall not kindle fire throughout your settlements on the Shabbat day"—Exodus 35:3.
• It is forbidden for the courts to administer punishments on Shabbat. The Sages interpreted the above verse as an injunction against executing a criminal via burning (one of the four methods of capital punishment employed by the courts) on Shabbat—and the same rule applies to all other forms of capital punishment. From this verse the Sages also extrapolated the prohibition against holding any court proceedings on Shabbat.
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• Today in Judaism
•
• Omer: Day 21 - Malchut sheb'Tifferet
•
• Today's Laws & Customs
•
• Count "Twenty-Two Days to the Omer" Tonight
•
• Tomorrow is the twenty-second 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 twenty-two days, which are three weeks and one day, 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: Chessed sheb'Netzach -- "Kindness in Ambition"
•
• 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."
•
• Anti-Jewish Riots in Russia (1881)
•
• Following the assassination a month earlier of Tzar Alexander II of Russia, and the subsequent rumors that the Jews were behind the assassination, anti-Jewish riots broke out on the 6th of Iyar. The riots and pogroms lasted for four years, during which time thousands of Jewish homes and synagogues were destroyed, and countless Jews were injured and impoverished. The unrest started out in Southern Russia, and quickly spread throughout the entire country.
• Tzar Alexander III actually blamed the riots on the Jews(!) and punished them by enacting new laws which further restricted their freedoms. Among these devastating laws were legislation which restricted Jews from residing in towns with fewer than 10,000 citizens, and limiting their professional employment and education opportunities.
• These oppressive laws, known as the "May Laws," compelled many Jews to emigrate. They are said to have caused more than two million Jews to leave Russia, many of them opting to move to the United States of America, and the freedoms it offered.
•
• Arab Countries Declare War on Israel (1948)
•
• One day after the State of Israel was proclaimed (see Jewish History for the 5th of Iyar), the surrounding Arab nations -- Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq --declared war on the fledgling state, with the objective of "driving the Jews into the sea." Tel Aviv was bombed on that very first day of the War of Independence.
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• Daily Quote
•
• One who locks the doors of his courtyard and feasts and drinks with his children and wife on the festivals, but does not feed the poor and the embittered -- this is not the joy of mitzvah but the joy of his stomach
- Maimonides
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Behar, 3rd Portion Leviticus 25:19-25:24 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 35 - 38
• Tanya: Likutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 46
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Mikvot Chap. 7
• 3 Chapters: Shabbos Chapter Fifteen, Shabbos Chapter Sixteen, Shabbos Chapter Seventeen
• Hayom Yom:
Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day
ט וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶל-מָקוֹם אֶחָד, וְתֵרָאֶה, הַיַּבָּשָׁה; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 9 And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.
י וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לַיַּבָּשָׁה אֶרֶץ, וּלְמִקְוֵה הַמַּיִם קָרָא יַמִּים; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 10
And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.
יא וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, תַּדְשֵׁא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, עֵץ פְּרִי עֹשֶׂה פְּרִי לְמִינוֹ, אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 11
And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
יב וַתּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, לְמִינֵהוּ, וְעֵץ עֹשֶׂה-פְּרִי אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ, לְמִינֵהוּ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 12
And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
יג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי. {פ} 13
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. {P}
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