• Today is: Erev Shabbat, Sivan 29, 5771 • 7 1, 2011
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• News
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• Armed conflicts and attacks
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• The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights claims the Congo government troops raped 121 women between June 11 and 13 then pillaged their villages. (AP via Washington Post)
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• Libyan rebels withdraw from the town of Bir al-Ghanam, 80km south of Tripoli after coming under rocket attack from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. (Reuters)
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• Bahrainis living overseas are required to spy on each other and not to support the 2011 Bahraini uprising. (MSNBC)
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• Business and economy
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• A Bank of Japan survey shows that business confidence has fallen markedly since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (Washington Post)
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• Manufacturing activity in the People's Republic of China is at its lowest level in more than two years after three successive months of falls indicating a continued slowdown. (Wall Street Journal), (Financial Times)
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• International relations
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• The Yonhap News Agency reports that North Korea is tightening border controls with South Korea to stop defections. (Yonhap News)
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• Poland takes over the Presidency of the European Union for six months. (BBC)
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• Law and crime
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• A Moscow court declares books and brochures by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as "extremist", banning them from distribution in Russia. (The Moscow Times) (AP)
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• The Australian Federal Police charges six senior executives, all former employees of two companies owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia, Securency and Note Printing Australia, in relation to alleged bribery of officials in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. (Sydney Morning Herald), (Herald-Sun)
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• The New York Times reports that the sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse due to concerns over the credibility of the alleged victim's testimony. (The New York Times)
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• The Chosunilbo newspaper in South Korea reports that Kim Pyong-il, the half-brother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is under house arrest in Pyongyang. (Kyodo News)
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• Italian police arrest the Mafia boss of Corleone in Sicily. (AFP via France 24)
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• Danish drug company Lundbeck restricts use of its Nembutal drug to stop its use in lethal injections in some US states. (AFP via France 24)
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• Politics
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• The government of the US state of Minnesota will shut down as a result of a budget dispute between Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and the Republican Legislature. Star-Tribune), (AP via Google News), (Politico)
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• The British Labour Party's Iain McKenzie wins the Inverclyde by-election with a majority reduced from 14,416 in 2010 to 5,838. (BBC)
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• Sport
• Owners in the North American National Basketball Association commence a lockout after failing to reach a collective bargaining agreement with players. (The Wall Street Journal)
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• Today in Jewish History
• Spies Dispatched (1312 BCE)
• Moses dispatched 12 spies to tour the Holy Land in preparation for its conquest by the people of Israel.
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• Daily Quote
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• "I will make your descendents like the dust of the earth" (Genesis 13:17). As the dust of the earth is everywhere, so, too, will the people of Israel be scattered from one end of the world to the other. As dust is treaded upon by all, so, too, will Israel be treaded upon by all. As dust erodes all metals while it itself lasts forever, so is it with Israel: all nations disintegrate, while they persist.
- Midrash Rabbah
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• Daily Study
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• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Chukat, 6th Portion Numbers 21:10-21:20 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 140 - 144
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 7
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• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Chovel uMazzik Chapter Seven
• 3 Chapters: Issurei Biah Chapter Twenty One, Issurei Biah Chapter Twenty Two, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 1
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• Hayom Yom:
• "Today's Day"
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• Man's avoda according to Chassidus: To accustom himself to perceive individual Divine Providence (hashgacha p'ratit), how G-d, in His goodness, renews the universe and all creatures every moment with His particular Divine Providence, which constitutes - to the exclusion of all else - the reality, life-force and sustained existence1 of all creatures.
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• FOOTNOTES
• For the distinction between "reality" (metzi'ut) and "sustained existence" (kiyum), see Sefer Hamaamarim 5711 p. 31.
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• Today's Mitzvah
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• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
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• Negative Commandment 353
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• Provocative Behavior
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• "No man shall come near to any of his relatives, to uncover [their] nakedness"—Leviticus 18:6.
• It is forbidden to derive pleasure from any of the women whom the Torah forbids us from marrying, by kissing, embracing and the like. For such behavior leads to actualizing the forbidden relationship.
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• Positive Commandment 149
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• Inspecting Animals for Kosher Signs
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• "These are the beasts which you shall eat"—Leviticus 11:2.
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• We are commanded to inspect wild or domesticated mammals before consuming them, to ascertain whether they possess the kosher signs—i.e. split hooves and cud chewing.
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• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
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• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
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• Yom Ha´shee´shee ....Sixth day THE MOST HIGH CREATES MAN
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• כד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, תּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה לְמִינָהּ, בְּהֵמָה וָרֶמֶשׂ וְחַיְתוֹ-אֶרֶץ, לְמִינָהּ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 24 And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so.
• כה וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים אֶת-חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ לְמִינָהּ, וְאֶת-הַבְּהֵמָה לְמִינָהּ, וְאֵת כָּל-רֶמֶשׂ הָאֲדָמָה, לְמִינֵהוּ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
• כו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ; וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל-הָאָרֶץ, וּבְכָל-הָרֶמֶשׂ, הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 26 And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
• כז וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ, בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ: זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, בָּרָא אֹתָם. 27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
• כח וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם, אֱלֹהִים, וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אֱלֹהִים פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, וְכִבְשֻׁהָ; וּרְדוּ בִּדְגַת הַיָּם, וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבְכָל-חַיָּה, הָרֹמֶשֶׂת עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 28 And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
• כט וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי לָכֶם אֶת-כָּל-עֵשֶׂב זֹרֵעַ זֶרַע אֲשֶׁר עַל-פְּנֵי כָל-הָאָרֶץ, וְאֶת-כָּל-הָעֵץ אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ פְרִי-עֵץ, זֹרֵעַ זָרַע: לָכֶם יִהְיֶה, לְאָכְלָה. 29 And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;
• ל וּלְכָל-חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ וּלְכָל-עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל רוֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה, אֶת-כָּל-יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב, לְאָכְלָה; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, [I have given] every green herb for food.' And it was so.
• לא וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-כָּל-אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה, וְהִנֵּה-טוֹב מְאֹד; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי. {פ} 31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
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• News
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
•
• The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights claims the Congo government troops raped 121 women between June 11 and 13 then pillaged their villages. (AP via Washington Post)
•
• Libyan rebels withdraw from the town of Bir al-Ghanam, 80km south of Tripoli after coming under rocket attack from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. (Reuters)
•
• Bahrainis living overseas are required to spy on each other and not to support the 2011 Bahraini uprising. (MSNBC)
•
• Business and economy
•
• A Bank of Japan survey shows that business confidence has fallen markedly since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (Washington Post)
•
• Manufacturing activity in the People's Republic of China is at its lowest level in more than two years after three successive months of falls indicating a continued slowdown. (Wall Street Journal), (Financial Times)
•
• International relations
•
• The Yonhap News Agency reports that North Korea is tightening border controls with South Korea to stop defections. (Yonhap News)
•
• Poland takes over the Presidency of the European Union for six months. (BBC)
•
• Law and crime
•
• A Moscow court declares books and brochures by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as "extremist", banning them from distribution in Russia. (The Moscow Times) (AP)
•
• The Australian Federal Police charges six senior executives, all former employees of two companies owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia, Securency and Note Printing Australia, in relation to alleged bribery of officials in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. (Sydney Morning Herald), (Herald-Sun)
•
• The New York Times reports that the sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse due to concerns over the credibility of the alleged victim's testimony. (The New York Times)
•
• The Chosunilbo newspaper in South Korea reports that Kim Pyong-il, the half-brother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is under house arrest in Pyongyang. (Kyodo News)
•
• Italian police arrest the Mafia boss of Corleone in Sicily. (AFP via France 24)
•
• Danish drug company Lundbeck restricts use of its Nembutal drug to stop its use in lethal injections in some US states. (AFP via France 24)
•
• Politics
•
• The government of the US state of Minnesota will shut down as a result of a budget dispute between Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and the Republican Legislature. Star-Tribune), (AP via Google News), (Politico)
•
• The British Labour Party's Iain McKenzie wins the Inverclyde by-election with a majority reduced from 14,416 in 2010 to 5,838. (BBC)
•
• Sport
• Owners in the North American National Basketball Association commence a lockout after failing to reach a collective bargaining agreement with players. (The Wall Street Journal)
•
• Today in Jewish History
• Spies Dispatched (1312 BCE)
• Moses dispatched 12 spies to tour the Holy Land in preparation for its conquest by the people of Israel.
•
• Daily Quote
•
• "I will make your descendents like the dust of the earth" (Genesis 13:17). As the dust of the earth is everywhere, so, too, will the people of Israel be scattered from one end of the world to the other. As dust is treaded upon by all, so, too, will Israel be treaded upon by all. As dust erodes all metals while it itself lasts forever, so is it with Israel: all nations disintegrate, while they persist.
- Midrash Rabbah
•
• Daily Study
•
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Chukat, 6th Portion Numbers 21:10-21:20 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 140 - 144
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 7
• •
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Chovel uMazzik Chapter Seven
• 3 Chapters: Issurei Biah Chapter Twenty One, Issurei Biah Chapter Twenty Two, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 1
•
• Hayom Yom:
• "Today's Day"
•
• Man's avoda according to Chassidus: To accustom himself to perceive individual Divine Providence (hashgacha p'ratit), how G-d, in His goodness, renews the universe and all creatures every moment with His particular Divine Providence, which constitutes - to the exclusion of all else - the reality, life-force and sustained existence1 of all creatures.
•
• FOOTNOTES
• For the distinction between "reality" (metzi'ut) and "sustained existence" (kiyum), see Sefer Hamaamarim 5711 p. 31.
•
• Today's Mitzvah
•
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
•
• Negative Commandment 353
•
• Provocative Behavior
•
• "No man shall come near to any of his relatives, to uncover [their] nakedness"—Leviticus 18:6.
• It is forbidden to derive pleasure from any of the women whom the Torah forbids us from marrying, by kissing, embracing and the like. For such behavior leads to actualizing the forbidden relationship.
•
• Positive Commandment 149
•
• Inspecting Animals for Kosher Signs
•
• "These are the beasts which you shall eat"—Leviticus 11:2.
•
• We are commanded to inspect wild or domesticated mammals before consuming them, to ascertain whether they possess the kosher signs—i.e. split hooves and cud chewing.
•
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
•
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
•
• Yom Ha´shee´shee ....Sixth day THE MOST HIGH CREATES MAN
•
• כד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, תּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה לְמִינָהּ, בְּהֵמָה וָרֶמֶשׂ וְחַיְתוֹ-אֶרֶץ, לְמִינָהּ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 24 And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so.
• כה וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים אֶת-חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ לְמִינָהּ, וְאֶת-הַבְּהֵמָה לְמִינָהּ, וְאֵת כָּל-רֶמֶשׂ הָאֲדָמָה, לְמִינֵהוּ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
• כו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ; וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל-הָאָרֶץ, וּבְכָל-הָרֶמֶשׂ, הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 26 And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
• כז וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ, בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ: זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, בָּרָא אֹתָם. 27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
• כח וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם, אֱלֹהִים, וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אֱלֹהִים פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, וְכִבְשֻׁהָ; וּרְדוּ בִּדְגַת הַיָּם, וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבְכָל-חַיָּה, הָרֹמֶשֶׂת עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 28 And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
• כט וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי לָכֶם אֶת-כָּל-עֵשֶׂב זֹרֵעַ זֶרַע אֲשֶׁר עַל-פְּנֵי כָל-הָאָרֶץ, וְאֶת-כָּל-הָעֵץ אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ פְרִי-עֵץ, זֹרֵעַ זָרַע: לָכֶם יִהְיֶה, לְאָכְלָה. 29 And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;
• ל וּלְכָל-חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ וּלְכָל-עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל רוֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה, אֶת-כָּל-יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב, לְאָכְלָה; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, [I have given] every green herb for food.' And it was so.
• לא וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-כָּל-אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה, וְהִנֵּה-טוֹב מְאֹד; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי. {פ} 31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
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