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• Today is:YOM SHLEE’SHEE, Sivan 5, 5771 • 6 7, 2011
• HAPPY AND JOYOUS SHAVUOT!
• Topics in the news
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Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, is re-elected for a third consecutive term in office.
Israeli forces shoot at demonstrators along the Syrian–Golan Heights border, producing the deadliest clash in the Golan since 1973.
NATO begins employing attack helicopters for the first time in air operations over Libya.
In tennis, Li Na wins the women's singles and Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles at the French Open.
Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, forcing 3,500 people to evacuate.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is injured in an attack on the presidential palace and transported to a Saudi Arabia hospital for treatment.
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• Current events
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• Armed conflict and attacks
•
• 2011 Yemeni uprising
•
Fighting resumes in the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula held city of Zinjibar with at least 15 people dead. (Reuters)
Royal Marines are on standby off the coast of Yemen to evacuate British citizens as violent protests continue. (Sky News)
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• Disasters
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European Union Agriculture Ministers meet in Luxembourg to discuss the continuing 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak that has so far killed 23 and for which no cause has yet been found. (BBC)
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• International relations
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Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, the Libyan Foreign Minister, commences a visit to the People's Republic of China. (AP via Washington Post)
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• Politics
•
Students at four South Korean universities Korea University, Sogang University, Sookmyung Women's University and Ewha Womans University go on strike for a day in favour of reduced tuition fees.(Yonhap News)
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• *Today in Judaism
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• Today is:, Sivan 5, 5771 • 6 7, 2011
Omer: Day 49 - Malchut sheb'Malchut
• Today's Laws & Customs
• All-Night Learning
The Talmud relates that when G-d came to give the Torah to the People of Israel in the early morning of Sivan 6 (see "Today in Jewish History" for tomorrow), He found them sleeping. (The Chassidic masters explain that this was an attempt to connect to their subconscious, transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom.) To rectify this lapse, we spend the entire first night of Shavuot (which begins at nightfall tonight) studying Torah. The traditional Tikkun Leil Shavout ("Rectification for Shavuot Night") study program includes the opening and closing verses of each book of the Written Torah (Tanach), as well as of each Parshah; the entire Book of Ruth (see "Laws and Customs" for tomorrow); the opening and closing sections of each tractate of the Talmud; a list of the 613 mitzvot; and selected readings from the Zohar and other Kabbalistic works.
• Today in Jewish History
• Reuben Finds Mandrakes (1568 BCE)
The incident involving the mandrakes (dudaim) which Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob, found in the field "during the time of the wheat harvest"--recounted in Genesis 30:14-18--occurred on the fifth of Sivan of the year 2197 from creation (1568 BCE).
• Jews Accept Torah (1313 BCE)
On this day, Moses made a covenant with the Jewish people at the foot of Mount Sinai at which the people declared, "All that G-d has spoken, we shall do and hear" (Exodus 24:7) committing themselves to observe the Torah's commandments ("do") and strive to comprehend them ("hear"), while pledging to "do" also before they "hear."
• An Easy Life
• Rabbis Burnt at Stake (1728)
On this day Rabbis Chayim and Yehoshua Reitzes were tortured and burned in Lvov, Poland after they were accused of having attempted to convince an apostate to return to Judaism.
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• Daily Quote
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"The voice is the voice of Jacob"--no prayer is effective unless the seed of Jacob has a part in it. "The hands are the hands of Esau"--no war is successful unless the seed of Esau has a share in it.
- Talmud
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• Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Behaalotecha, 3rd Portion Numbers 9:1-9:14 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 29 - 34
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, end of Chapter 53
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter One
• 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Two, Ishut Chapter Three, Ishut Chapter Four
• Hayom Yom:
"Today's Day"
TuesdaySivan 5, Erev Shavuot, 49th day of the omer5703
Torah lessons: Chumash: Nasso, Shlishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 29-34.
Tanya: And this is (p. 279)...BLESSED AND EXALTED. (p. 281).
On the eve of Shavuot 5557 (1797) the Alter Rebbe taught:
Sanctify them today and tomorrow and they shall cleanse their garments.1 "Sanctify them today and tomorrow," is done from Above, but "they shall cleanse their garments" - one must do himself. This was the entire teaching.
The Tzemach Tzedek elaborated: "Sanctify them" was said by G-d to Moshe. The extension of Moshe is in every generation2 and they3 are able to sanctify the "today" and the "tomorrow"; but for this is needed "..and they shall cleanse their garments" - the garments of thought, speech and deed. This must be done by each person on his own.
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• Today's Mitzvah
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A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
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• Positive Commandment 213
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Marriage
"When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her"—Deuteronomy 24:1.
It is a mitzvah for a man to marry a woman through kiddushin. Kiddushin is accomplished through one of three methods: a) The man giving the women an object of value [for the purpose of marriage]. b) The man giving the woman a marriage contract [a document upon which is written, "With this document I am marrying you"]. c) Through the man being intimate with the woman.
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day CREATION DAY OF EARTH, SEAS, AND THE GROWINGS THINGS OF THE FEILDS
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}
• Today is:YOM SHLEE’SHEE, Sivan 5, 5771 • 6 7, 2011
• HAPPY AND JOYOUS SHAVUOT!
• Topics in the news
•
Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, is re-elected for a third consecutive term in office.
Israeli forces shoot at demonstrators along the Syrian–Golan Heights border, producing the deadliest clash in the Golan since 1973.
NATO begins employing attack helicopters for the first time in air operations over Libya.
In tennis, Li Na wins the women's singles and Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles at the French Open.
Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, forcing 3,500 people to evacuate.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is injured in an attack on the presidential palace and transported to a Saudi Arabia hospital for treatment.
•
• Current events
•
• Armed conflict and attacks
•
• 2011 Yemeni uprising
•
Fighting resumes in the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula held city of Zinjibar with at least 15 people dead. (Reuters)
Royal Marines are on standby off the coast of Yemen to evacuate British citizens as violent protests continue. (Sky News)
•
• Disasters
•
European Union Agriculture Ministers meet in Luxembourg to discuss the continuing 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak that has so far killed 23 and for which no cause has yet been found. (BBC)
•
• International relations
•
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, the Libyan Foreign Minister, commences a visit to the People's Republic of China. (AP via Washington Post)
•
• Politics
•
Students at four South Korean universities Korea University, Sogang University, Sookmyung Women's University and Ewha Womans University go on strike for a day in favour of reduced tuition fees.(Yonhap News)
•
• *Today in Judaism
•
• Today is:, Sivan 5, 5771 • 6 7, 2011
Omer: Day 49 - Malchut sheb'Malchut
• Today's Laws & Customs
• All-Night Learning
The Talmud relates that when G-d came to give the Torah to the People of Israel in the early morning of Sivan 6 (see "Today in Jewish History" for tomorrow), He found them sleeping. (The Chassidic masters explain that this was an attempt to connect to their subconscious, transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom.) To rectify this lapse, we spend the entire first night of Shavuot (which begins at nightfall tonight) studying Torah. The traditional Tikkun Leil Shavout ("Rectification for Shavuot Night") study program includes the opening and closing verses of each book of the Written Torah (Tanach), as well as of each Parshah; the entire Book of Ruth (see "Laws and Customs" for tomorrow); the opening and closing sections of each tractate of the Talmud; a list of the 613 mitzvot; and selected readings from the Zohar and other Kabbalistic works.
• Today in Jewish History
• Reuben Finds Mandrakes (1568 BCE)
The incident involving the mandrakes (dudaim) which Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob, found in the field "during the time of the wheat harvest"--recounted in Genesis 30:14-18--occurred on the fifth of Sivan of the year 2197 from creation (1568 BCE).
• Jews Accept Torah (1313 BCE)
On this day, Moses made a covenant with the Jewish people at the foot of Mount Sinai at which the people declared, "All that G-d has spoken, we shall do and hear" (Exodus 24:7) committing themselves to observe the Torah's commandments ("do") and strive to comprehend them ("hear"), while pledging to "do" also before they "hear."
• An Easy Life
• Rabbis Burnt at Stake (1728)
On this day Rabbis Chayim and Yehoshua Reitzes were tortured and burned in Lvov, Poland after they were accused of having attempted to convince an apostate to return to Judaism.
•
• Daily Quote
•
"The voice is the voice of Jacob"--no prayer is effective unless the seed of Jacob has a part in it. "The hands are the hands of Esau"--no war is successful unless the seed of Esau has a share in it.
- Talmud
•
• Daily Study
•
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Behaalotecha, 3rd Portion Numbers 9:1-9:14 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 29 - 34
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, end of Chapter 53
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter One
• 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Two, Ishut Chapter Three, Ishut Chapter Four
• Hayom Yom:
"Today's Day"
TuesdaySivan 5, Erev Shavuot, 49th day of the omer5703
Torah lessons: Chumash: Nasso, Shlishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 29-34.
Tanya: And this is (p. 279)...BLESSED AND EXALTED. (p. 281).
On the eve of Shavuot 5557 (1797) the Alter Rebbe taught:
Sanctify them today and tomorrow and they shall cleanse their garments.1 "Sanctify them today and tomorrow," is done from Above, but "they shall cleanse their garments" - one must do himself. This was the entire teaching.
The Tzemach Tzedek elaborated: "Sanctify them" was said by G-d to Moshe. The extension of Moshe is in every generation2 and they3 are able to sanctify the "today" and the "tomorrow"; but for this is needed "..and they shall cleanse their garments" - the garments of thought, speech and deed. This must be done by each person on his own.
•
• Today's Mitzvah
•
A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
•
• Positive Commandment 213
•
Marriage
"When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her"—Deuteronomy 24:1.
It is a mitzvah for a man to marry a woman through kiddushin. Kiddushin is accomplished through one of three methods: a) The man giving the women an object of value [for the purpose of marriage]. b) The man giving the woman a marriage contract [a document upon which is written, "With this document I am marrying you"]. c) Through the man being intimate with the woman.
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day CREATION DAY OF EARTH, SEAS, AND THE GROWINGS THINGS OF THE FEILDS
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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