• Today is: YOM RISHONE, Sivan 24, 5771 • 6 26, 2011
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• Topics in the news
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• Mario Draghi (pictured) is appointed for an eight-year term as President of the European Central Bank, effective 1 November.
• Pauline Nyiramasuhuko is convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
• The Nabro Volcano erupts, emitting the greatest quantity of sulfur dioxide ever recorded by satellite.
• AirAsia places the largest single order in commercial aviation history, purchasing 200 Airbus A320neo jetliners.
• Dutch politician Geert Wilders is acquitted of hate speech charges.
• For their role in the 2011 Bahraini uprising, eight activists are sentenced to life imprisonment.
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• Current events
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
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• French newspaper Le Figaro reports that Hezbollah has transferred hundreds of missiles from Syria to Lebanon, fearing the fall of the Syrian government in the ongoing Syrian uprising. (Haaretz)
• A bomb causes a large explosion near the United Nations compound in Gaza City on the Gaza Strip. (BBC)
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• Disasters
•
• Ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption continues to disrupt flights between Australia and New Zealand. (Sydney Morning Herald)
• The bodies of six mountaineers are found on Neige Cordier in the French Alps, (BBC)
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• International relations
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• Vietnamese protestors march in the capital Hanoi for the fourth successive week calling on the People's Republic of China to stop entering Vietnamese territorial waters on the South China Sea. (AP via MSNBC)
•
• Social News
•
• US actor Peter Falk dies aged 83
• New York legalizes same-sex marriage
•
• Today in Judaism
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• Daily Quote
• In heaven they sense the preciousness of this lowly world. Not only the ministering angels, but even the earliest divine emanations would forego everything for one Amein, y'hei sh'mei raba... said by a Jew with all his might...
- Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (quoted in Hayom Yom for 17 Adar I)
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Chukat, 1st Portion Numbers 19:1-19:17 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 113 - 118
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 7
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Chovel uMazzik Chapter Two
• 3 Chapters: Issurei Biah Chapter Six, Issurei Biah Chapter Seven, Issurei Biah Chapter Eight
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• Hayom Yom:
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• "Today's Day"
• Sivan 245703
• Torah lessons:Chumash: Korach, first parsha with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 113-118.
• Tanya: In the light of (p. 313)...are all one. (p. 315).
• "You ask how can you be bound (m'kushar)1 to me when I do not know you personally..."
• "...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my maamarim, read the sichot2 and associate with those dear to me - the chassidic community and the tmimim3 - in their studies and farbrengens, and you fulfill my request regarding saying Tehillim* and observing Torah-study times - in this is the bond."
• FOOTNOTES
• The bond between Chassid and Rebbe is termed hitkashrut (see Elul 10).
• Informal talks, as distinct from maamarim which are formal dissertations of chassidic philosophy.
• Present as well as former students in the Lubavitcher yeshivot are known as "Tmimim.
• *. "At the time this letter was written, it had not yet become widely known about the establishment of the practice to study Chumash with Rashi daily, and to study Tanya as apportioned for every day of the year." Footnote 4, Page 328, Sefer Hamaamarim Basi Legani.
• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
• Sivan 24, 5771 • June 26, 2011Today's Mitzvah
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
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• Negative Commandment 340
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• Incest with a Paternal Aunt
• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister"—Leviticus 18:12.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's father's sister.
•
• Negative Commandment 341
•
• Incest with a Maternal Aunt
•
• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister"—Leviticus 18:13.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's mother's sister.
•
• Negative Commandment 342
•
• Incest with an Uncle's Wife
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• "You shall not come near his wife; she is your aunt"—Leviticus 18:14.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's father's brother's wife.
•
• Negative Commandment 343
•
• Incest with a Daughter-in-Law
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• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law"—Leviticus 18:15.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's daughter-in-law.
•
• Negative Commandment 344
•
• Incest with a Brother's Wife
•
• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife"—Leviticus 18:16.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's brother's wife.
•
• Negative Commandment 345
• Incest with a Wife's Sister
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• "And you shall not take a woman with her sister"—Leviticus 18:18.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's wife's sister—as long as the wife is alive [i.e. after her death, it is permitted to marry her sister].
• Yom Reeshone........... First day CREATION OF LIGHT
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• א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. 1
• In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
• ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
• ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. 3
• And God said: 'Let there be light.’ And there was light.
• ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. 4
• And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
• ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד. {פ} 5
• And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
•
• Topics in the news
•
• Mario Draghi (pictured) is appointed for an eight-year term as President of the European Central Bank, effective 1 November.
• Pauline Nyiramasuhuko is convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
• The Nabro Volcano erupts, emitting the greatest quantity of sulfur dioxide ever recorded by satellite.
• AirAsia places the largest single order in commercial aviation history, purchasing 200 Airbus A320neo jetliners.
• Dutch politician Geert Wilders is acquitted of hate speech charges.
• For their role in the 2011 Bahraini uprising, eight activists are sentenced to life imprisonment.
•
• Current events
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
•
• French newspaper Le Figaro reports that Hezbollah has transferred hundreds of missiles from Syria to Lebanon, fearing the fall of the Syrian government in the ongoing Syrian uprising. (Haaretz)
• A bomb causes a large explosion near the United Nations compound in Gaza City on the Gaza Strip. (BBC)
•
• Disasters
•
• Ash cloud from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption continues to disrupt flights between Australia and New Zealand. (Sydney Morning Herald)
• The bodies of six mountaineers are found on Neige Cordier in the French Alps, (BBC)
•
• International relations
•
• Vietnamese protestors march in the capital Hanoi for the fourth successive week calling on the People's Republic of China to stop entering Vietnamese territorial waters on the South China Sea. (AP via MSNBC)
•
• Social News
•
• US actor Peter Falk dies aged 83
• New York legalizes same-sex marriage
•
• Today in Judaism
•
• Daily Quote
• In heaven they sense the preciousness of this lowly world. Not only the ministering angels, but even the earliest divine emanations would forego everything for one Amein, y'hei sh'mei raba... said by a Jew with all his might...
- Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (quoted in Hayom Yom for 17 Adar I)
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Chukat, 1st Portion Numbers 19:1-19:17 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 113 - 118
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 7
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Chovel uMazzik Chapter Two
• 3 Chapters: Issurei Biah Chapter Six, Issurei Biah Chapter Seven, Issurei Biah Chapter Eight
•
• Hayom Yom:
•
• "Today's Day"
• Sivan 245703
• Torah lessons:Chumash: Korach, first parsha with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 113-118.
• Tanya: In the light of (p. 313)...are all one. (p. 315).
• "You ask how can you be bound (m'kushar)1 to me when I do not know you personally..."
• "...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my maamarim, read the sichot2 and associate with those dear to me - the chassidic community and the tmimim3 - in their studies and farbrengens, and you fulfill my request regarding saying Tehillim* and observing Torah-study times - in this is the bond."
• FOOTNOTES
• The bond between Chassid and Rebbe is termed hitkashrut (see Elul 10).
• Informal talks, as distinct from maamarim which are formal dissertations of chassidic philosophy.
• Present as well as former students in the Lubavitcher yeshivot are known as "Tmimim.
• *. "At the time this letter was written, it had not yet become widely known about the establishment of the practice to study Chumash with Rashi daily, and to study Tanya as apportioned for every day of the year." Footnote 4, Page 328, Sefer Hamaamarim Basi Legani.
• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
• Sivan 24, 5771 • June 26, 2011Today's Mitzvah
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
•
• Negative Commandment 340
•
• Incest with a Paternal Aunt
• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister"—Leviticus 18:12.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's father's sister.
•
• Negative Commandment 341
•
• Incest with a Maternal Aunt
•
• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister"—Leviticus 18:13.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's mother's sister.
•
• Negative Commandment 342
•
• Incest with an Uncle's Wife
•
• "You shall not come near his wife; she is your aunt"—Leviticus 18:14.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's father's brother's wife.
•
• Negative Commandment 343
•
• Incest with a Daughter-in-Law
•
• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law"—Leviticus 18:15.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's daughter-in-law.
•
• Negative Commandment 344
•
• Incest with a Brother's Wife
•
• "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife"—Leviticus 18:16.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's brother's wife.
•
• Negative Commandment 345
• Incest with a Wife's Sister
•
• "And you shall not take a woman with her sister"—Leviticus 18:18.
• It is forbidden to have incestuous relations with one's wife's sister—as long as the wife is alive [i.e. after her death, it is permitted to marry her sister].
• Yom Reeshone........... First day CREATION OF LIGHT
•
• א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. 1
• In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
• ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
• ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. 3
• And God said: 'Let there be light.’ And there was light.
• ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. 4
• And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
• ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד. {פ} 5
• And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
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