• Today is:, Yom Khah´mee´shee.. Fifth day, TWO MORE DAYS TO SHABBAT!
• Sivan 21, 5771 • 6 23, 2011
• Current events
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• Armed conflict and attacks
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• 2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian forces mass along the Turkish border near where thousands of refugees are camped. (Reuters) (BBC)
• France announces plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in a similar timeframe to that announced for United States forces by President Barack Obama yesterday. (AAP via The Courier-Mail)
• Prominent Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders is acquited of all charges in the Geert Wilders trial. Because both the public prosecutor and the defense requested complete acquital, the verdict will most likely not be appealed.[1]
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• Arts and culture
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• J. K. Rowling's new project Pottermore is to be officially launched, with details of its identity to be revealed for the first time in an announcement by the writer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. (The Guardian)
• Business and economy
• Australia's National Broadband Network and telecommunications company Telstra reach an A$11 billion dollar deal to allow the network to use Telstra's existing network and infrastructure. (ABC News Australia)
• Disasters
• An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude occurs off the coast of Japan's Iwate prefecture. (Reuters)
• The fourth tropical storm of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season, Tropical Storm Haima (Egay), makes landfall in southern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. (Xinhua)
• A study finds that the 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak was a mix of two dangerous E. coli strains. (AP via USA Today)
• International relations
• The Japanese national broadcasting company NHK captures images of the Chinese Navy navigating the high seas between the islands of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. (NHK)
• The President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemns the beheading of an Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia and condemns the Saudi Government of breaking the "norms and manners" of international relations. (Straits Times)
• Law and crime
• A Dutch court acquits politician Geert Wilders of hate speech charges for statements against Islam. (AP via Huffington Post)
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• Topics in the news
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• Ban Ki-moon (pictured) is re-elected for a second term as the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is sentenced in absentia to 35 years in jail.
• RusAir Flight 9605 crashes in Petrozavodsk, Russia, killing 44 people.
• ICANN votes for an expansion of the available generic top-level domains, allowing owners to choose a suffix for the address of a website.
• Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo resigns from his position as Prime Minister of Somalia.
• Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy wins the U.S. Open with a record score of 16 under par.
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• Today in Judaism
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• Daily Quote
• Old age is a virtue and a blessing...It is true that a 20-year-old can dance the night away while his grandmother tires after a few minutes. But man was not created to dance for hours on end. Man was created to make life on earth purer, brighter and holier than it was before he came on the scene... In this regard, a person's value and productivity only increases with age... The instution of "retirement", which pushes million of men and women to the sidelines of society each year, is tragic waste of human life and resources
- The Lubavitcher Rebbe
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• Daily Study
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• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Korach, 5th Portion Numbers 17:16-17:24 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 104 - 105
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 7
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Seventeen
• 3 Chapters: Sotah Chapter One, Sotah Chapter Two, Sotah Chapter Three
• Hayom Yom:
• "Today's Day"
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• Sivan 215703
• Torah lessons: Chumash: Sh'lach, Chamishi with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 104-105.
• Tanya: The term "world" (p. 309)...in the four directions. (p. 309).
• The Alter Rebbe explains (in Tanya chapter 3) that the three faculties of intellect, chochma-bina-da'at, and the seven emotive powers, evolve from the ten supernal Sefirot. All this applies to nefesh, ruach, and neshama (three aspects of the soul) which are enclothed within the body of man. However, mesirat nefesh, the readiness for self-sacrifice for G-d (that a Jew neither desires nor is capable of being - G-d forbid - separated from G-dhood1 comes from the Essence of the En Sof (the Infinite One, may He be blessed) which transcends the Sefirot, the first of which is the Sefira of chochma.2
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• Today's Mitzvah
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• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
• Positive Commandment 223
• The Suspected Adulteress
• "Should any man's wife go astray"—Numbers 5:12.
• In the event that a woman is suspected of adultery [and there is significant circumstantial evidence pointing to her infidelity], we are commanded to follow the pertinent laws detailed in the Torah. This includes her bringing a special meal offering in the Holy Temple and drinking a special potion.
• Negative Commandment 104
• Oil on the Suspected Adulteress' Meal Offering
• "He shall pour no oil upon it"—Numbers 5:15.
• It is forbidden to mix oil into the suspected adulteress' meal offering [as is done by almost all other meal offerings].
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
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• Yom Khah´mee´shee.. Fifth day
•
• כ וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים--יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם, שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה; וְעוֹף יְעוֹפֵף עַל-הָאָרֶץ, עַל-פְּנֵי רְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם. 20
• And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'
• כא וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הַתַּנִּינִם הַגְּדֹלִים; וְאֵת כָּל-נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת אֲשֶׁר שָׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם לְמִינֵהֶם, וְאֵת כָּל-עוֹף כָּנָף לְמִינֵהוּ, וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 21
• And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
• כב וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, לֵאמֹר: פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ, וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הַמַּיִם בַּיַּמִּים, וְהָעוֹף, יִרֶב בָּאָרֶץ. 22 And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'
• כג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי. {פ} 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. {P}
• Sivan 21, 5771 • 6 23, 2011
• Current events
•
• Armed conflict and attacks
•
• 2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian forces mass along the Turkish border near where thousands of refugees are camped. (Reuters) (BBC)
• France announces plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in a similar timeframe to that announced for United States forces by President Barack Obama yesterday. (AAP via The Courier-Mail)
• Prominent Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders is acquited of all charges in the Geert Wilders trial. Because both the public prosecutor and the defense requested complete acquital, the verdict will most likely not be appealed.[1]
•
• Arts and culture
•
• J. K. Rowling's new project Pottermore is to be officially launched, with details of its identity to be revealed for the first time in an announcement by the writer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. (The Guardian)
• Business and economy
• Australia's National Broadband Network and telecommunications company Telstra reach an A$11 billion dollar deal to allow the network to use Telstra's existing network and infrastructure. (ABC News Australia)
• Disasters
• An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude occurs off the coast of Japan's Iwate prefecture. (Reuters)
• The fourth tropical storm of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season, Tropical Storm Haima (Egay), makes landfall in southern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. (Xinhua)
• A study finds that the 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak was a mix of two dangerous E. coli strains. (AP via USA Today)
• International relations
• The Japanese national broadcasting company NHK captures images of the Chinese Navy navigating the high seas between the islands of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. (NHK)
• The President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemns the beheading of an Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia and condemns the Saudi Government of breaking the "norms and manners" of international relations. (Straits Times)
• Law and crime
• A Dutch court acquits politician Geert Wilders of hate speech charges for statements against Islam. (AP via Huffington Post)
•
• Topics in the news
•
• Ban Ki-moon (pictured) is re-elected for a second term as the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is sentenced in absentia to 35 years in jail.
• RusAir Flight 9605 crashes in Petrozavodsk, Russia, killing 44 people.
• ICANN votes for an expansion of the available generic top-level domains, allowing owners to choose a suffix for the address of a website.
• Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo resigns from his position as Prime Minister of Somalia.
• Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy wins the U.S. Open with a record score of 16 under par.
•
• Today in Judaism
•
• Daily Quote
• Old age is a virtue and a blessing...It is true that a 20-year-old can dance the night away while his grandmother tires after a few minutes. But man was not created to dance for hours on end. Man was created to make life on earth purer, brighter and holier than it was before he came on the scene... In this regard, a person's value and productivity only increases with age... The instution of "retirement", which pushes million of men and women to the sidelines of society each year, is tragic waste of human life and resources
- The Lubavitcher Rebbe
•
• Daily Study
•
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Korach, 5th Portion Numbers 17:16-17:24 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 104 - 105
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 7
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Gezelah va'Avedah Chapter Seventeen
• 3 Chapters: Sotah Chapter One, Sotah Chapter Two, Sotah Chapter Three
• Hayom Yom:
• "Today's Day"
•
• Sivan 215703
• Torah lessons: Chumash: Sh'lach, Chamishi with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 104-105.
• Tanya: The term "world" (p. 309)...in the four directions. (p. 309).
• The Alter Rebbe explains (in Tanya chapter 3) that the three faculties of intellect, chochma-bina-da'at, and the seven emotive powers, evolve from the ten supernal Sefirot. All this applies to nefesh, ruach, and neshama (three aspects of the soul) which are enclothed within the body of man. However, mesirat nefesh, the readiness for self-sacrifice for G-d (that a Jew neither desires nor is capable of being - G-d forbid - separated from G-dhood1 comes from the Essence of the En Sof (the Infinite One, may He be blessed) which transcends the Sefirot, the first of which is the Sefira of chochma.2
•
• Today's Mitzvah
•
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
• Positive Commandment 223
• The Suspected Adulteress
• "Should any man's wife go astray"—Numbers 5:12.
• In the event that a woman is suspected of adultery [and there is significant circumstantial evidence pointing to her infidelity], we are commanded to follow the pertinent laws detailed in the Torah. This includes her bringing a special meal offering in the Holy Temple and drinking a special potion.
• Negative Commandment 104
• Oil on the Suspected Adulteress' Meal Offering
• "He shall pour no oil upon it"—Numbers 5:15.
• It is forbidden to mix oil into the suspected adulteress' meal offering [as is done by almost all other meal offerings].
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
•
• Yom Khah´mee´shee.. Fifth day
•
• כ וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים--יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם, שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה; וְעוֹף יְעוֹפֵף עַל-הָאָרֶץ, עַל-פְּנֵי רְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם. 20
• And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'
• כא וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הַתַּנִּינִם הַגְּדֹלִים; וְאֵת כָּל-נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת אֲשֶׁר שָׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם לְמִינֵהֶם, וְאֵת כָּל-עוֹף כָּנָף לְמִינֵהוּ, וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 21
• And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
• כב וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, לֵאמֹר: פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ, וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הַמַּיִם בַּיַּמִּים, וְהָעוֹף, יִרֶב בָּאָרֶץ. 22 And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'
• כג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי. {פ} 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. {P}
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