Tuesday, June 21, 2011

NEWS AND MIDRASH

o Today is: Yom Shlee´shee, Sivan 19, 5771 • 6 21, 2011




o Topics in the news



o ICANN votes for an expansion of the available generic top-level domains, allowing companies and organizations to choose their own suffixes.

o Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy (pictured) wins the U.S. Open with a record score of 16 under par.

o In response to ongoing protests in Morocco, King Mohammed VI announces constitutional reform proposals to be voted on in a referendum.

o Ongoing flooding in the People's Republic of China affects more than ten million people and causes more than US$3 billion in damage.

o Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati forms a new government.

o Ayman al-Zawahiri succeeds Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda's leader.

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o Current events

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o Armed conflicts and attacks



o At least twenty people are killed when a car bomb explodes outside a local governor's house in Al Diwaniyah in Iraq. (Reuters via MSNBC)



o Disasters



o Flights in Australia are again disrupted due to volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile. (WA Today)



o Today in Judaism



o Daily Quote





o G-d spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: "This month shall be to you the head of months; it shall be for you the first of the months of the year."



- Exodus 12:1-2







o Daily Study



o Chitas and Rambam for today:



o Chumash: Korach, 3rd Portion Numbers 16:20-17:8 with Rashi



o Tehillim: Chapters 90 - 96



o Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 6



o Rambam:

• Sefer Hamitzvos:

• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Fifteen

• 3 Chapters: Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Six, Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Seven, Yibbum vChalitzah Chapter Eight



o Hayom Yom:



o "Today's Day"



o Sivan 195703

o Torah lessons: Chumash: Sh'lach, Shlishi with Rashi.

o Tehillim: 90-96.

o Tanya: Therefore, it was (p. 305)...Hava'ye is Elokim. (p. 307).



o In the month of Marcheshvan 5613 (1852) the Tzemach Tzedek started an additional program of study with my grandfather,1 besides the Tzemach Tzedek's regular studies. This was for two and a half hours daily, starting at 10:00 p.m. winters, and at 4:00 a.m. summers. For two years they studied Kabala with chassidic interpretation. Thereafter, until Elul 5616 (1856), when this special program ceased, they studied the following philosophical works: Those of R. Saadya Gaon, and Moreh Nevuchim, Ikarim, Kuzari, etc. - according to Chassidic teachings.



o Today's Mitzvah



o A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"



o Negative Commandment 357



o Relations with a Widow who has not Performed Chalitzah



o "The wife of the dead man shall not be to an outsider"—Deuteronomy 25:5.



o It is forbidden for anyone – besides the deceased's brother – to engage in sexual relations with the widow of a childless man, unless she has performed chalitzah.



• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH



Genesis Chapter 1

• בְּרֵאשִׁית



Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day



• 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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