• Today is:YOM SHAYNEE, Sivan 18, 5771 • 6 20, 2011
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• Topics in the news
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• In response to ongoing protests in Morocco, King Mohammed VI (pictured) announces constitutional reform proposals to be voted on in a referendum.
• Ongoing flooding in the People's Republic of China affects more than ten million people and causes more than US$3 billion in damage.
• Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati forms a new government.
• Ayman al-Zawahiri succeeds Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda's leader.
• Let the Great World Spin, by Irish writer Colum McCann, wins the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
• In ice hockey, the Boston Bruins defeat the Vancouver Canucks in game seven to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1972.
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• Current events
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• Armed conflicts and attacks
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• General Walter L. Sharp, the Commander of United States Forces Korea, warns that North Korea is likely to launch more attacks but states that US and South Korean forces are prepared. (AFP via Inquirer)
• Two suspected militants are killed in Khar Dand in Pakistan as a result of a drone attack. (AP via WVEC)
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• Arts and culture
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• The Anglican Church in the United Kingdom considers guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops. (AFP via Google News)
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• Business and economy
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• Euro zone finance ministers agree to seek a voluntary rollover of Greek debt by private bondholders in order to meet a substantial part of Greek funding needs. (Reuters)
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• Disasters
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• Residents of Greer, a small town in the US state of Arizona, are allowed to return home after the Wallow Fire is slowly brought under control. (ABC Arizona)
• The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin warns that Australian travellers face more disruption from ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. (WA Today)
• The Korea Meteorological Administration issues a heatwave warning for inland South Korean cities including Seoul, Suwon and Chuncheon. (Yonhap)
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• International Relations
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• The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev practically rules out supporting a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning a crackdown by the Government of Syria on protestors. (Reuters)
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• Law and crime
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• New Zealand businessman Allan Hubbard will face fraud charges in relation to the collapse of his company Aorangi Securities Limited. (New Zealand Herald)
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• Politics
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• The President of Syria Bashar Assad is due to make a speech about "current circumstances" in Syria. (Los Angeles Times)
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• Science
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• The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers votes to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes by private companies. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
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• Music
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• Clarence Clemons, Springsteen’s E Street Band sax player, dies at 69
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• Today in Judaism
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• Today is:, Sivan 18, 5771 • 6 20, 2011
• Today in Jewish History
• Spanish Expulsion Decree Rescinded (1967)
• The Spanish cabinet approved a bill which granted religious freedom to Spain's Jews as well as other religious minorities. Since 1492 it had been officially forbidden to practice Judaism in Spain -- though this law had not been enforced for many years before its official abolishment.
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• Daily Quote
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• There are four types of people: One who says, "What is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine" is a boor. One who says "What is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours" -- this is a median characteristic; others say that this is the character of a Sodomite. One who says, "What is mine is yours, and what is yours is yours" is a chassid (pious person). And one who says "What is mine is mine, and what is yours is mine" is wicked.
- Ethics of the Fathers 5:10
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• Daily Study
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• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Korach, 2nd Portion Numbers 16:14-16:19 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 88 - 89
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 6
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Fourteen
• 3 Chapters: Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Three, Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Four, Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Five
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• Hayom Yom:
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• "Today's Day"
• Sivan 185703
• Torah lessons: Chumash: Sh'lach, Sheini with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 88-89.
• Tanya: From the inclusion (p. 303)...in the sun. (p. 305).
• This is the actual time of the "footsteps of Mashiach." 1 It is therefore imperative for every Jew to seek his fellow's welfare - whether old or young - to inspire the other to teshuva (return), so that he will not fall out - G-d forbid - of the community of Israel who will shortly be privileged, with G-d's help, to experience complete redemption.
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• Today's Mitzvah
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• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
• Positive Commandment 217
• Circumventing Levirate Marriage
• "And she shall remove his shoe off his foot"—Deuteronomy 25:9.
• If the brother of a married man who dies childless does not marry his widowed sister-in-law [See Positive Commandment 216], the widow is commanded to remove her brother-in-law's shoe [as part of the chalitzah ceremony described in the Torah, and she is then permitted to marry whomever she desires]. Our sages tell us that performing levirate marriage is preferable to employing chalitzah to release the widow and brother-in-law from their bond.
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• Yom Shaynee ............Second day
CREATION DAY THE HEAVENS EARTH, AND WATERS
ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם, וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל, בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם.
6And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'
ז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הָרָקִיעַ, וַיַּבְדֵּל בֵּין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתַּחַת לָרָקִיעַ, וּבֵין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מֵעַל לָרָקִיעַ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
ח וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָרָקִיעַ, שָׁמָיִם; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שֵׁנִי. {פ} 8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
•
• Topics in the news
•
• In response to ongoing protests in Morocco, King Mohammed VI (pictured) announces constitutional reform proposals to be voted on in a referendum.
• Ongoing flooding in the People's Republic of China affects more than ten million people and causes more than US$3 billion in damage.
• Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati forms a new government.
• Ayman al-Zawahiri succeeds Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda's leader.
• Let the Great World Spin, by Irish writer Colum McCann, wins the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
• In ice hockey, the Boston Bruins defeat the Vancouver Canucks in game seven to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1972.
•
• Current events
•
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
•
• General Walter L. Sharp, the Commander of United States Forces Korea, warns that North Korea is likely to launch more attacks but states that US and South Korean forces are prepared. (AFP via Inquirer)
• Two suspected militants are killed in Khar Dand in Pakistan as a result of a drone attack. (AP via WVEC)
•
• Arts and culture
•
• The Anglican Church in the United Kingdom considers guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops. (AFP via Google News)
•
• Business and economy
•
• Euro zone finance ministers agree to seek a voluntary rollover of Greek debt by private bondholders in order to meet a substantial part of Greek funding needs. (Reuters)
•
• Disasters
•
• Residents of Greer, a small town in the US state of Arizona, are allowed to return home after the Wallow Fire is slowly brought under control. (ABC Arizona)
• The Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin warns that Australian travellers face more disruption from ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. (WA Today)
• The Korea Meteorological Administration issues a heatwave warning for inland South Korean cities including Seoul, Suwon and Chuncheon. (Yonhap)
•
• International Relations
•
• The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev practically rules out supporting a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning a crackdown by the Government of Syria on protestors. (Reuters)
•
• Law and crime
•
• New Zealand businessman Allan Hubbard will face fraud charges in relation to the collapse of his company Aorangi Securities Limited. (New Zealand Herald)
•
• Politics
•
• The President of Syria Bashar Assad is due to make a speech about "current circumstances" in Syria. (Los Angeles Times)
•
• Science
•
• The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers votes to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes by private companies. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
•
• Music
•
• Clarence Clemons, Springsteen’s E Street Band sax player, dies at 69
•
• Today in Judaism
•
• Today is:, Sivan 18, 5771 • 6 20, 2011
• Today in Jewish History
• Spanish Expulsion Decree Rescinded (1967)
• The Spanish cabinet approved a bill which granted religious freedom to Spain's Jews as well as other religious minorities. Since 1492 it had been officially forbidden to practice Judaism in Spain -- though this law had not been enforced for many years before its official abolishment.
•
•
• Daily Quote
•
• There are four types of people: One who says, "What is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine" is a boor. One who says "What is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours" -- this is a median characteristic; others say that this is the character of a Sodomite. One who says, "What is mine is yours, and what is yours is yours" is a chassid (pious person). And one who says "What is mine is mine, and what is yours is mine" is wicked.
- Ethics of the Fathers 5:10
•
• Daily Study
•
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Korach, 2nd Portion Numbers 16:14-16:19 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 88 - 89
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 6
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Fourteen
• 3 Chapters: Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Three, Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Four, Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Five
•
• Hayom Yom:
•
• "Today's Day"
• Sivan 185703
• Torah lessons: Chumash: Sh'lach, Sheini with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 88-89.
• Tanya: From the inclusion (p. 303)...in the sun. (p. 305).
• This is the actual time of the "footsteps of Mashiach." 1 It is therefore imperative for every Jew to seek his fellow's welfare - whether old or young - to inspire the other to teshuva (return), so that he will not fall out - G-d forbid - of the community of Israel who will shortly be privileged, with G-d's help, to experience complete redemption.
•
• Today's Mitzvah
•
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
• Positive Commandment 217
• Circumventing Levirate Marriage
• "And she shall remove his shoe off his foot"—Deuteronomy 25:9.
• If the brother of a married man who dies childless does not marry his widowed sister-in-law [See Positive Commandment 216], the widow is commanded to remove her brother-in-law's shoe [as part of the chalitzah ceremony described in the Torah, and she is then permitted to marry whomever she desires]. Our sages tell us that performing levirate marriage is preferable to employing chalitzah to release the widow and brother-in-law from their bond.
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• Yom Shaynee ............Second day
CREATION DAY THE HEAVENS EARTH, AND WATERS
ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם, וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל, בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם.
6And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'
ז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הָרָקִיעַ, וַיַּבְדֵּל בֵּין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתַּחַת לָרָקִיעַ, וּבֵין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מֵעַל לָרָקִיעַ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
ח וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָרָקִיעַ, שָׁמָיִם; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שֵׁנִי. {פ} 8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
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