• Today is: YOM REE’VEE, Sivan 27, 5771 • 6 29, 2011
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• Topics in the news
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• Christine Lagarde is appointed as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, effective 5 July.
• The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity during the ongoing civil war in Libya.
• New York becomes the sixth and most-populous U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
• Mario Draghi 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.
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• Current events
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• Armed conflicts and attacks
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• In Egypt, at least 66 people are injured in violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (McClatchy via Sacramento Bee)
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• Arts and culture
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• Pope Benedict XVI launches a new Vatican website, news.va, and performs the first tweet by a pope. (AFP via Herald-Sun)
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• International relations
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• North Korea accuses South Korea of slander and threatens "a retaliatory sacred war". (AFP via Channel News Asia)
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• Politics
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• The Greek parliament is due to vote today on austerity measures with financial markets anticipating that they will be passed narrowly. (The Guardian)
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• Sport
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• Choi Sung-Kuk, a former forward with the South Korea national football team, admits involvement in a K-League match fixing scheme. (AFP via France 24)
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• Science
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• Debris narrowly misses International Space Station
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• Today in Judaism
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• Today in Jewish History
• R. Chananya ben Tradyon Killed (2nd century CE)
• Rabbi Chananya ben Tradyon, one of the "Ten Martyrs" (see entry for Sivan 25) was killed on this date. When the Romans discovered him teaching the outlawed Torah they wrapped him in a Torah scroll, piled bundles of twigs around him, and before setting him afire they placed damp woolen cloths on him to prolong the agony of being burned to death.
• As the flames engulfed him, his disciples asked him, "Master, what do you see?" Rabbi Chananya replied: "I see a scroll burning, but the letters flying up to Heaven."
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• Daily Quote
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• And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of a shofar exceeding loud... Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with G-d; and they stood under the mountain...
• And G-d spoke all these words, saying: "I am G-d your G-d, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods beside Me..."
- Exodus 19:16-20:3
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• Daily Study
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• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Chukat, 4th Portion Numbers 20:14-20:21 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 120 - 134
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 7
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Chovel uMazzik Chapter Five
• 3 Chapters: Issurei Biah Chapter Fifteen, Issurei Biah Chapter Sixteen, Issurei Biah Chapter Seventeen
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• Hayom Yom:
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• "Today's Day"
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• Sivan 275703
• Torah lessons:Chumash: Korach, Revi'i with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 120-134.
• Tanya: And "He fills (p. 317)...finite and limited. (p. 317).
• "G-d will bless you in whatever you do."
• Man needs but to make a receptacle for his livelihood and to endeavor with all his power that the receptacle be pure of any impurity or dross of cheating others and the like. This means that whatever he does conforms to Torah laws. Thus he becomes a "vessel" worthy of G-d's blessing, in two ways: His livelihood will be ample and his earnings will be directed to desirable ends
• Today's Mitzvah
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• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
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• Negative Commandment 52
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• Intermarriage
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• "You shall not make marriages with them"—Deuteronomy 7:3.
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• It is forbidden to marry a non-Jew.
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• Negative Commandment 53
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• Marriage with an Ammonite or Moabite
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• "An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the congregation of G‑d"—Deuteronomy 23:4.
• It is forbidden to marry a male Ammonite or Moabite, even after they convert to Judaism.
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• Negative Commandment 55
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• Rejecting an Egyptian
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• "Do not reject an Egyptian"—Deuteronomy 23:8.
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• It is forbidden to utterly distance an Egyptian convert. A third generation Egyptian convert must be allowed to marry among the Jewish people.
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• Negative Commandment 54
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• Rejecting an Edomite
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• "Do not reject the Edomite, since he is your brother"—Deuteronomy 23:8.
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• It is forbidden to utterly distance an Edomite convert. A third generation Edomite convert must be allowed to marry among the Jewish people.
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• Negative Commandment 354
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• Marrying a Bastard
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• "A mamzer shall not enter into the assembly of G‑d"—Deuteronomy 23:3.
• A child born of certain illicit relationships is called a mamzer. Such an individual may not marry a non-mamzer.
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• Negative Commandment 360
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• A Castrated Man
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• "A man with injured testicles or whose member is cut may not enter the assembly of G‑d"—Deuteronomy 23:2.
• A man whose genitals have been damaged to the point that he is incapable of fathering a child may not marry a Jewish woman.
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• Negative Commandment 361
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• Castration
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• "...neither shall you do this in your land"—Leviticus 22:24.
• It is forbidden to cause castration to a male – whether human or animal – by damaging his genitals. It is forbidden even to further damage the genitals of a male who has already been castrated.
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• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
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• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
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• Yom Revee´ee............Fourth day The Day The True Stars were created
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• יד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי מְאֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הַיּוֹם וּבֵין הַלָּיְלָה; וְהָיוּ לְאֹתֹת וּלְמוֹעֲדִים, וּלְיָמִים וְשָׁנִים. 14
• And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
• טו וְהָיוּ לִמְאוֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהָאִיר עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 15
• and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so.
• טז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-שְׁנֵי הַמְּאֹרֹת הַגְּדֹלִים: אֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַגָּדֹל, לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַיּוֹם, וְאֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַקָּטֹן לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַלַּיְלָה, וְאֵת הַכּוֹכָבִים. 16
• And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.
• יז וַיִּתֵּן אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם, לְהָאִיר, עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 17
• And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
• יח וְלִמְשֹׁל, בַּיּוֹם וּבַלַּיְלָה, וּלְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 18
• and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
• יט וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם רְבִיעִי. {פ} 19
• And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. {P}
•
• Topics in the news
•
• Christine Lagarde is appointed as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, effective 5 July.
• The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity during the ongoing civil war in Libya.
• New York becomes the sixth and most-populous U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
• Mario Draghi 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.
•
• Current events
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
•
• In Egypt, at least 66 people are injured in violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (McClatchy via Sacramento Bee)
•
• Arts and culture
•
• Pope Benedict XVI launches a new Vatican website, news.va, and performs the first tweet by a pope. (AFP via Herald-Sun)
•
• International relations
•
• North Korea accuses South Korea of slander and threatens "a retaliatory sacred war". (AFP via Channel News Asia)
•
• Politics
•
• The Greek parliament is due to vote today on austerity measures with financial markets anticipating that they will be passed narrowly. (The Guardian)
•
• Sport
•
• Choi Sung-Kuk, a former forward with the South Korea national football team, admits involvement in a K-League match fixing scheme. (AFP via France 24)
•
• Science
•
• Debris narrowly misses International Space Station
•
• Today in Judaism
•
• Today in Jewish History
• R. Chananya ben Tradyon Killed (2nd century CE)
• Rabbi Chananya ben Tradyon, one of the "Ten Martyrs" (see entry for Sivan 25) was killed on this date. When the Romans discovered him teaching the outlawed Torah they wrapped him in a Torah scroll, piled bundles of twigs around him, and before setting him afire they placed damp woolen cloths on him to prolong the agony of being burned to death.
• As the flames engulfed him, his disciples asked him, "Master, what do you see?" Rabbi Chananya replied: "I see a scroll burning, but the letters flying up to Heaven."
•
• Daily Quote
•
• And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of a shofar exceeding loud... Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with G-d; and they stood under the mountain...
• And G-d spoke all these words, saying: "I am G-d your G-d, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods beside Me..."
- Exodus 19:16-20:3
•
• Daily Study
•
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Chukat, 4th Portion Numbers 20:14-20:21 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 120 - 134
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 7
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Chovel uMazzik Chapter Five
• 3 Chapters: Issurei Biah Chapter Fifteen, Issurei Biah Chapter Sixteen, Issurei Biah Chapter Seventeen
•
• Hayom Yom:
•
• "Today's Day"
•
• Sivan 275703
• Torah lessons:Chumash: Korach, Revi'i with Rashi.
• Tehillim: 120-134.
• Tanya: And "He fills (p. 317)...finite and limited. (p. 317).
• "G-d will bless you in whatever you do."
• Man needs but to make a receptacle for his livelihood and to endeavor with all his power that the receptacle be pure of any impurity or dross of cheating others and the like. This means that whatever he does conforms to Torah laws. Thus he becomes a "vessel" worthy of G-d's blessing, in two ways: His livelihood will be ample and his earnings will be directed to desirable ends
• Today's Mitzvah
•
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
•
• Negative Commandment 52
•
• Intermarriage
•
• "You shall not make marriages with them"—Deuteronomy 7:3.
•
• It is forbidden to marry a non-Jew.
•
• Negative Commandment 53
•
• Marriage with an Ammonite or Moabite
•
• "An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter the congregation of G‑d"—Deuteronomy 23:4.
• It is forbidden to marry a male Ammonite or Moabite, even after they convert to Judaism.
•
• Negative Commandment 55
•
• Rejecting an Egyptian
•
• "Do not reject an Egyptian"—Deuteronomy 23:8.
•
• It is forbidden to utterly distance an Egyptian convert. A third generation Egyptian convert must be allowed to marry among the Jewish people.
•
• Negative Commandment 54
•
• Rejecting an Edomite
•
• "Do not reject the Edomite, since he is your brother"—Deuteronomy 23:8.
•
• It is forbidden to utterly distance an Edomite convert. A third generation Edomite convert must be allowed to marry among the Jewish people.
•
• Negative Commandment 354
•
• Marrying a Bastard
•
• "A mamzer shall not enter into the assembly of G‑d"—Deuteronomy 23:3.
• A child born of certain illicit relationships is called a mamzer. Such an individual may not marry a non-mamzer.
•
• Negative Commandment 360
•
• A Castrated Man
•
• "A man with injured testicles or whose member is cut may not enter the assembly of G‑d"—Deuteronomy 23:2.
• A man whose genitals have been damaged to the point that he is incapable of fathering a child may not marry a Jewish woman.
•
• Negative Commandment 361
•
• Castration
•
• "...neither shall you do this in your land"—Leviticus 22:24.
• It is forbidden to cause castration to a male – whether human or animal – by damaging his genitals. It is forbidden even to further damage the genitals of a male who has already been castrated.
•
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
•
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
•
• Yom Revee´ee............Fourth day The Day The True Stars were created
•
• יד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי מְאֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הַיּוֹם וּבֵין הַלָּיְלָה; וְהָיוּ לְאֹתֹת וּלְמוֹעֲדִים, וּלְיָמִים וְשָׁנִים. 14
• And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
• טו וְהָיוּ לִמְאוֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהָאִיר עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 15
• and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so.
• טז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-שְׁנֵי הַמְּאֹרֹת הַגְּדֹלִים: אֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַגָּדֹל, לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַיּוֹם, וְאֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַקָּטֹן לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַלַּיְלָה, וְאֵת הַכּוֹכָבִים. 16
• And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.
• יז וַיִּתֵּן אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם, לְהָאִיר, עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 17
• And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
• יח וְלִמְשֹׁל, בַּיּוֹם וּבַלַּיְלָה, וּלְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 18
• and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
• יט וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם רְבִיעִי. {פ} 19
• And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. {P}
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