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Today is:YOM SHLEESHEE, Sivan 12, 5771 • 6 14, 2011
FOUR MORE DAYS TO SHABBAT!
In basketball, the Dallas Mavericks defeat the Miami Heat to win their first NBA championship (Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki pictured).
A Gay Girl In Damascus, a popular opposition blog about the 2011 Syrian uprising, is revealed to be a hoax.
The Book of Mormon wins Best Musical and War Horse wins Best Play at the 65th Tony Awards.
In the Turkish general election, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is elected for a third term and the AK Party retains its majority in parliament.
In sports car racing, Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Senior al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is killed by Somali soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
Current events of 14 June 2011 (2011-06-14) (Tuesday) edit history watch
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• Armed conflicts and attacks
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• Iraq
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Time Magazine reports that a Federal Grand Jury is investigating claims of war crimes and torture by the US Central Intelligence Agency at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. (Time Magazine)
A series of attacks on the central Iraq town of Baquba results in at least seven deaths and 17 injuries. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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• Business and economy
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Gaza's unemployment rate was among the world's highest, at 45.2% in late 2010, the UN has found, as Israel's blockade of the territory enters its fifth year. (BBC)
Air Canada services face disruption as customer service agents affiliated with the Canadian Auto Workers start a strike. (Financial Post)
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• Disasters
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An elderly man dies following aftershocks to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand with additional buildings to be demolished. (New Zealand Herald), (TV New Zealand)
At least two people die as a building collapses in Nairobi, Kenya. (Capital FM)
• Today in Judaism
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• Today's Laws & Customs
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• End of Shavuot "fulfillment" days
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When the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, and all Jews would come there for the three annual "pilgrimage festivals" (Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot), Sivan 12 was the last of the seven days allotted for the offerings brought in conjunction with the Shavuot pilgrimage (unlike the festivals of Passover and Sukkot, which have seven biblically mandated days, Shavuot consists only of one day; hence the additional six days of tashlumin or "fulfillment").
Thus we do not recite the tachnun (confession and penitential suplication), and the other prayers omitted on a festival or joyous commemoration, from the 1st of Sivan until and including the 12th, as all these days bear a connection with the festival of Shavuot (see last week's calendar entries for Sivan 1 through 6).
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• Daily Quote
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"Let me tell you what I try to do. Imagine that you're looking at a candle. What you're really seeing is a lump of wax with a thread down its middle. So when do the thread and wax become a candle? Or, in other words, when do they fulfill the purpose for which they were created? When you put a flame to the thread, then the candle becomes a candle.
"The wax is the body, and the wick the soul. Ignite the soul with the fire of Torah and a person will then fulfill the purpose for which he or she was created. And that is what I try to do -- to ignite the soul of our people with the fire of Torah."
"My candle," I asked, "has the Rebbe lit it?"
"I have given you the match," he said. "Only you can light your candle."
- From a conversation between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Yehudah Avner
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• Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Shlach, 3rd Portion Numbers 14:8-14:25 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 66 - 68
Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 3
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Eight
• 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Twenty Three, Ishut Chapter Twenty Four, Ishut Chapter Twenty Five
• Hayom Yom:
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• "Today's Day"
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Sivan 125703
Torah lessons:Chumash: Beha'alotecha, Shlishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 66-68.
Tanya: The exact parallel (p. 295)...remarks are necessary. (p. 295).
In the b'racha shehakol: The yud of nih'yoh has a kamatz vowel, not a segol vowel.
My father wrote in a letter: Cherish criticism, for it will place you on the true heights.
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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 212
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• Reproduction
• "Be fruitful and multiply"—Genesis 1:28.
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We are commanded to reproduce in order to perpetuate the human species. For this reason, a groom on the night of his wedding is exempt from the biblical obligation to recite the Shema, for his mind is presumably preoccupied with the impending mitzvah that he will perform.
This mitzvah is only mandatory for males.
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• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
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Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day-CREATION DAY FOR LAND, SEA AND GROWING GREEN THINGS
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 SHLEESHEE, Sivan 12, 5771 • 6 14, 2011
FOUR MORE DAYS TO SHABBAT!
In basketball, the Dallas Mavericks defeat the Miami Heat to win their first NBA championship (Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki pictured).
A Gay Girl In Damascus, a popular opposition blog about the 2011 Syrian uprising, is revealed to be a hoax.
The Book of Mormon wins Best Musical and War Horse wins Best Play at the 65th Tony Awards.
In the Turkish general election, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is elected for a third term and the AK Party retains its majority in parliament.
In sports car racing, Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Senior al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is killed by Somali soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
Current events of 14 June 2011 (2011-06-14) (Tuesday) edit history watch
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
•
• Iraq
•
Time Magazine reports that a Federal Grand Jury is investigating claims of war crimes and torture by the US Central Intelligence Agency at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. (Time Magazine)
A series of attacks on the central Iraq town of Baquba results in at least seven deaths and 17 injuries. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
•
• Business and economy
•
Gaza's unemployment rate was among the world's highest, at 45.2% in late 2010, the UN has found, as Israel's blockade of the territory enters its fifth year. (BBC)
Air Canada services face disruption as customer service agents affiliated with the Canadian Auto Workers start a strike. (Financial Post)
•
• Disasters
•
An elderly man dies following aftershocks to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand with additional buildings to be demolished. (New Zealand Herald), (TV New Zealand)
At least two people die as a building collapses in Nairobi, Kenya. (Capital FM)
• Today in Judaism
•
• Today's Laws & Customs
•
•
• End of Shavuot "fulfillment" days
•
When the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, and all Jews would come there for the three annual "pilgrimage festivals" (Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot), Sivan 12 was the last of the seven days allotted for the offerings brought in conjunction with the Shavuot pilgrimage (unlike the festivals of Passover and Sukkot, which have seven biblically mandated days, Shavuot consists only of one day; hence the additional six days of tashlumin or "fulfillment").
Thus we do not recite the tachnun (confession and penitential suplication), and the other prayers omitted on a festival or joyous commemoration, from the 1st of Sivan until and including the 12th, as all these days bear a connection with the festival of Shavuot (see last week's calendar entries for Sivan 1 through 6).
•
• Daily Quote
•
"Let me tell you what I try to do. Imagine that you're looking at a candle. What you're really seeing is a lump of wax with a thread down its middle. So when do the thread and wax become a candle? Or, in other words, when do they fulfill the purpose for which they were created? When you put a flame to the thread, then the candle becomes a candle.
"The wax is the body, and the wick the soul. Ignite the soul with the fire of Torah and a person will then fulfill the purpose for which he or she was created. And that is what I try to do -- to ignite the soul of our people with the fire of Torah."
"My candle," I asked, "has the Rebbe lit it?"
"I have given you the match," he said. "Only you can light your candle."
- From a conversation between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Yehudah Avner
•
• Daily Study
•
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Shlach, 3rd Portion Numbers 14:8-14:25 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 66 - 68
Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 3
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Eight
• 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Twenty Three, Ishut Chapter Twenty Four, Ishut Chapter Twenty Five
• Hayom Yom:
•
• "Today's Day"
•
Sivan 125703
Torah lessons:Chumash: Beha'alotecha, Shlishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 66-68.
Tanya: The exact parallel (p. 295)...remarks are necessary. (p. 295).
In the b'racha shehakol: The yud of nih'yoh has a kamatz vowel, not a segol vowel.
My father wrote in a letter: Cherish criticism, for it will place you on the true heights.
•
• Today's Mitzvah
•
A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
•
• Positive Commandment 212
•
• Reproduction
• "Be fruitful and multiply"—Genesis 1:28.
•
We are commanded to reproduce in order to perpetuate the human species. For this reason, a groom on the night of his wedding is exempt from the biblical obligation to recite the Shema, for his mind is presumably preoccupied with the impending mitzvah that he will perform.
This mitzvah is only mandatory for males.
•
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
•
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day-CREATION DAY FOR LAND, SEA AND GROWING GREEN THINGS
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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