Today is: YOM RISHONE, Sivan 3, 5771 • 6 5, 2011
*Topics in the news
1. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh goes to Saudi Arabia for treatment on an injury obtained during an attack on the presidential palace.
2. In tennis, Li Na (pictured) defeats Francesca Schiavone to win the French Open title in women's singles.
3. Senior Al-Qaeda member Ilyas Kashmiri is killed by an American drone strike in South Waziristan, Pakistan.
4. Jack Kevorkian, a right-to-die activist and physician, dies at the age of 83.
5. The discovery of Halicephalobus mephisto, the deepest-living land multicellular organism, is announced.
6. Sepp Blatter is re-elected President of FIFA amid corruption allegations within association football's world governing body.
*Current events
•
• Armed conflict and attacks
•
1. 2011 Yemeni uprising
2. Two people are killed and fifteen injured in a hand grenade attack on a pro-opposition military facility in Sanaa, Yemen. (Sky News)
3. Gunmen attack the Presidential palace in Taiz resulting in the death of four soldiers. (AP via Yahoo News)
4. Israeli forces fire on a Palestinian protest on the Syrian border commemorating Naksa Day killing at least two people. (Al-Jazeera)
A NATO helicopter crashes in eastern Afghanistan resulting in at least two deaths with the Taliban claiming to have shot it down. (Reuters)
• *
• Politics and elections
•
1. Voters in Portugal go to the polls for the Portuguese legislative election. (AFP via France24)
2. Voters in Macedonia go to the polls for parliamentary elections. (AFP via Manilla Bulletin)
3. Voters in Peru go to the polls for the second round of the Peruvian general election. (Washington Post)
4. Shops and schools are closed in Bangladesh due to an anti-government strike. (AP via MSNBC)
•
• *Today in Judaism
•
Omer: Day 47 - Hod sheb'Malchut
*Today's Laws & Customs
• Three Days of "Hagbalah" Begin
*Today begin the three days of preparation for the festival of Shavuot known as the "Three Days of Hagbalah" (see today's "Today in Jewish History"); in the custom of certain communities, the mourning practices of the Omer period, such as not to hold weddings or get a haircut, are now suspended.
• Count "Forty-Eight Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the forty-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 forty-eight days, which are six weeks and six 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: Yesod sheb'Malchut -- "Connection in Receptiveness"
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
• Jews Prepare to Receive Torah (1313 BCE)
On Sivan 3, G-d instructed Moses to "set boundaries for the people around, saying, 'Beware of ascending the mountain or touching its edge...'" (Exodus 19:10-12) in preparation for the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai three days later. To this day, we mark the "Three Days of Hagbalah ('Boundaries')" leading to the Giving of the Torah on Sivan 6.
The Giving of the Torah
• Vespasian Captures Jericho (68 CE)
In his advance towards the destruction of Jerusalem, Rome Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus ("Vespasian") captures Jericho and massacres all its inhabitants.
*Daily Quote
One father can feed ten sons, but ten sons can't feed one father
- Nofet Tzufim
*Daily Study
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Behaalotecha, 1st Portion Numbers 8:1-8:14 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 18 - 22
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 53
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Genevah Chapter Eight
• 3 Chapters: Ta'aniyot Chapter Five, Megillah vChanukah Chapter One, Megillah vChanukah Chapter Two
*Hayom Yom:
• Today's Day"
Haircutting during the Three Days of Preparation, before Erev Shavuot, was displeasing to my father.
Whoever ponders the approach of Tosafot in his comment beginning "Torah etc..." (Shabbat 89a) will understand that the festival of Shavuot is an auspicious time Above. On that day G-d confounds the "supernal accuser" of Israel, similar to His confounding the accuser during Shofar-sounding on Rosh Hashana and on the holy day of the Fast of Yom Kippur.
Today's Mitzvah
A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
*Positive Commandment 59
*Blowing Trumpets
"On the day of your joy, on your holidays and on the heads of your months you shall blow with trumpets"—Numbers 10:10.
We are commanded to blow trumpets while the sacrifices offered on special dates were being offered in the Holy Temple.
We are also commanded to blow trumpets during times of distress, to accompany our prayer to G‑d.
*Laws of Megillah and Chanukah Chapters 1 & 2
We now continue with Maimonides' Laws of Megillah and Chanukah, chapters one and two.
(The Daily Mitzvah schedule runs parallel to the daily study of three chapters of Maimonides' 14-volume code, which today studies these laws. Because these two mitzvot are rabbinic, not biblical, they have no counterpart in Sefer Hamitzvot.)
• CHILDREN OF YISRA'EL: HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
WHY REFUSE TO CALL THE DAYS BY THE NAME OF PAGAN DIETIES?
YHWH CREATED THEM, AND DID WONDROUS THINGS ON EACH!! WHY IS EACH DAY TO BE HELD IN SACRED AWE, AND WHY MUST WE AMONG ALL THE BLESSINGS HE GIVES OFFER PRAISE UNTO THE MOST HIGH YHWH EACH AND EVERY DAY?
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Hebrew Day's Names
Hebrew......................Meaning
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Reeshone........... First day
א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. 1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. 3
And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.
ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. 4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד. {פ} 5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. {P}
*Topics in the news
1. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh goes to Saudi Arabia for treatment on an injury obtained during an attack on the presidential palace.
2. In tennis, Li Na (pictured) defeats Francesca Schiavone to win the French Open title in women's singles.
3. Senior Al-Qaeda member Ilyas Kashmiri is killed by an American drone strike in South Waziristan, Pakistan.
4. Jack Kevorkian, a right-to-die activist and physician, dies at the age of 83.
5. The discovery of Halicephalobus mephisto, the deepest-living land multicellular organism, is announced.
6. Sepp Blatter is re-elected President of FIFA amid corruption allegations within association football's world governing body.
*Current events
•
• Armed conflict and attacks
•
1. 2011 Yemeni uprising
2. Two people are killed and fifteen injured in a hand grenade attack on a pro-opposition military facility in Sanaa, Yemen. (Sky News)
3. Gunmen attack the Presidential palace in Taiz resulting in the death of four soldiers. (AP via Yahoo News)
4. Israeli forces fire on a Palestinian protest on the Syrian border commemorating Naksa Day killing at least two people. (Al-Jazeera)
A NATO helicopter crashes in eastern Afghanistan resulting in at least two deaths with the Taliban claiming to have shot it down. (Reuters)
• *
• Politics and elections
•
1. Voters in Portugal go to the polls for the Portuguese legislative election. (AFP via France24)
2. Voters in Macedonia go to the polls for parliamentary elections. (AFP via Manilla Bulletin)
3. Voters in Peru go to the polls for the second round of the Peruvian general election. (Washington Post)
4. Shops and schools are closed in Bangladesh due to an anti-government strike. (AP via MSNBC)
•
• *Today in Judaism
•
Omer: Day 47 - Hod sheb'Malchut
*Today's Laws & Customs
• Three Days of "Hagbalah" Begin
*Today begin the three days of preparation for the festival of Shavuot known as the "Three Days of Hagbalah" (see today's "Today in Jewish History"); in the custom of certain communities, the mourning practices of the Omer period, such as not to hold weddings or get a haircut, are now suspended.
• Count "Forty-Eight Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the forty-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 forty-eight days, which are six weeks and six 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: Yesod sheb'Malchut -- "Connection in Receptiveness"
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
• Jews Prepare to Receive Torah (1313 BCE)
On Sivan 3, G-d instructed Moses to "set boundaries for the people around, saying, 'Beware of ascending the mountain or touching its edge...'" (Exodus 19:10-12) in preparation for the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai three days later. To this day, we mark the "Three Days of Hagbalah ('Boundaries')" leading to the Giving of the Torah on Sivan 6.
The Giving of the Torah
• Vespasian Captures Jericho (68 CE)
In his advance towards the destruction of Jerusalem, Rome Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus ("Vespasian") captures Jericho and massacres all its inhabitants.
*Daily Quote
One father can feed ten sons, but ten sons can't feed one father
- Nofet Tzufim
*Daily Study
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Behaalotecha, 1st Portion Numbers 8:1-8:14 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 18 - 22
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 53
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Genevah Chapter Eight
• 3 Chapters: Ta'aniyot Chapter Five, Megillah vChanukah Chapter One, Megillah vChanukah Chapter Two
*Hayom Yom:
• Today's Day"
Haircutting during the Three Days of Preparation, before Erev Shavuot, was displeasing to my father.
Whoever ponders the approach of Tosafot in his comment beginning "Torah etc..." (Shabbat 89a) will understand that the festival of Shavuot is an auspicious time Above. On that day G-d confounds the "supernal accuser" of Israel, similar to His confounding the accuser during Shofar-sounding on Rosh Hashana and on the holy day of the Fast of Yom Kippur.
Today's Mitzvah
A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
*Positive Commandment 59
*Blowing Trumpets
"On the day of your joy, on your holidays and on the heads of your months you shall blow with trumpets"—Numbers 10:10.
We are commanded to blow trumpets while the sacrifices offered on special dates were being offered in the Holy Temple.
We are also commanded to blow trumpets during times of distress, to accompany our prayer to G‑d.
*Laws of Megillah and Chanukah Chapters 1 & 2
We now continue with Maimonides' Laws of Megillah and Chanukah, chapters one and two.
(The Daily Mitzvah schedule runs parallel to the daily study of three chapters of Maimonides' 14-volume code, which today studies these laws. Because these two mitzvot are rabbinic, not biblical, they have no counterpart in Sefer Hamitzvot.)
• CHILDREN OF YISRA'EL: HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
WHY REFUSE TO CALL THE DAYS BY THE NAME OF PAGAN DIETIES?
YHWH CREATED THEM, AND DID WONDROUS THINGS ON EACH!! WHY IS EACH DAY TO BE HELD IN SACRED AWE, AND WHY MUST WE AMONG ALL THE BLESSINGS HE GIVES OFFER PRAISE UNTO THE MOST HIGH YHWH EACH AND EVERY DAY?
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Hebrew Day's Names
Hebrew......................Meaning
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Reeshone........... First day
א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. 1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. 3
And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.
ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. 4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד. {פ} 5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. {P}
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