• Today is: Yom Rishone, Tammuz 1, 5771 • 7 3, 2011
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• Topics in the news
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• Treasure worth at least 2,500 crore is found at Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India.
• The wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco (pictured), and Charlene Wittstock takes place at the Prince's Palace in Monaco.
• Astronomers announce the discovery of ULAS J1120+0641, the most distant quasar yet found.
• The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, the world's longest cross-sea bridge, opens in Shandong, People's Republic of China.
• The 1,318 km (819 mi) Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway opens after 39 months of construction.
• Amid heavy protests, the Greek parliament passes austerity measures to obtain the latest tranche of a €110 billion EFSF loan.
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• Current events
•
• Disasters
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• Mount Soputan, a volcano in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province erupts. (AFP via France 24)
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• International relations
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• South Korea has announced plans to submit a claim to the United Nations to a larger portion of the East China Sea in a move which is likely to be disputed by the People's Republic of China and Japan. (Yonhap)
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• Politics and elections
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• Thailand votes in its 26th general election with exit polls showing the Pheu Thai Party loyal to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra likely to win a majority. (Thai News Agency) (BBC), (Bangkok Post), (Bloomberg)
• In Lebanon, Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah rejects the indictment and arrest warrants served by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon three days earlier against the party's four senior members. (BBC), (Al Jazeera)
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• Sport
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• An executive and her director boyfriend working with the Olympic Park Legacy Company are reportedly suspended following claims that they were paid by West Ham United F.C. to secure the use of the 2012 Summer Olympics stadium after the games. (Sky News)
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• Today in Judaism
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• Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
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• Today's Laws & Customs
• Rosh Chodesh Observances
•
• Today is the second of the two Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") days for the Hebrew month of "Tammuz" (when a month has 30 days, both the last day of the month and the first day of the following month serve as the following month's Rosh Chodesh).
• Special portions are added to the daily prayers: Hallel (Psalms 113-118) is recited -- in its "partial" form -- following the Shacharit morning prayer, and the Yaaleh V'yavo prayer is added to the Amidah and to Grace After Meals; the additional Musaf prayer is said (when Rosh Chodesh is Shabbat, special additions are made to the Shabbat Musaf). Tachnun (confession of sins) and similar prayers are omitted.
• Many have the custom to mark Rosh Chodesh with a festive meal and reduced work activity. The latter custom is prevalent amongst women, who have a special affinity with Rosh Chodesh -- the month being the feminine aspect of the Jewish Calendar.
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• Today in Jewish History
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• Birth and Passing of Joseph (1562 and 1452 BCE)
• Joseph, the son of the patriarch Jacob, was born in Charan (Mesopotamia) on the 1st of Tammuz of the year 2199 from creation (1562 BCE), the first child of Jacob's most beloved wife, Rachel, born after 7 childless years of marriage. He passed away on the same date 110 years later, in Egypt.
• When Joseph was six years old, Jacob and his family returned to the Holy Land, eventually settling in Hebron. Though younger than 10 of his 11 brothers, he was his father's favorite, and a great rivalry existed between him and his brothers, whose animosity toward him increased when he related two dreams he had forecasting that he is destined to rule over them.
• When Joseph was 17, he was sold into slavery by his brothers and taken to Egypt; when he refused the advances of his master's wife, she had him placed in prison, where he languished for 12 years. At age 30, he interpreted a pair of mysterious dreams dreamt by Pharaoh, and was appointed viceroy of Egypt to oversee the gathering and storage of grain in preparation for the seven years of famine that Pharaoh's dreams had predicted. He married Asnat, and had two children, Menasseh and Ephraim.
• The great famine brought his brothers to Egypt to purchase grain; after subjecting them to a series of trials to test their loyalty to each other and their remorse over what they had done to him, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, was reconciled with them, and settled his father and entire family -- 70 souls in all -- in Egypt.
• Joseph passed away in Egypt on his 110th birthday. The first of his brothers to die, he transmitted to them the divine promise to Jacob that his children will be taken out of Egypt and restored to their homeland, and made them promise to take his remains with them when they go.
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• Daily Quote
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• What is inscribed in G-d's tefillin? "Who is like Your people Israel, one nation in the earth" (Samuel II, 7:23)
- Talmud, Berachot 6a
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• Daily Study
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• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Balak, 1st Portion Numbers 22:2-22:12 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 1 - 9
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, beginning of Chapter 9
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter One
• 3 Chapters: MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 5, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 6, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 7
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• Hayom Yom:
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• "Today's Day"
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• Mesirat nefesh (self-sacrifice) for Torah-scholars means, "When a man dies in a tent,"1 as interpreted by our sages,2 to "put to death" all pleasure-taking in worldly matters - for even trivial wordly delights are obstacles to being thoroughly devoted and dedicated to the "tent" of Torah.
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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 173
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• Non-Kosher Fish
•
• "And they shall be a detestable thing to you, you shall not eat from their meat, and their
• carcasses you shall hold in abomination"—Leviticus 11:11.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any non-kosher fish.
•
• Negative Commandment 175
•
• Flying Insects
•
• "And every creeping flying thing is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten"—Deuteronomy 14:19.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any flying insect, such as flies, bees or hornets.
•
• Negative Commandment 176
•
• Creeping Land Creatures
•
• "And every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten"—Leviticus 11:41.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any creature that creeps on the ground, such as bugs or worms.
•
• Negative Commandment 177
•
• Insects that are Born from Decay
•
• "You shall not defile yourselves [by eating] any creeping creature that creeps upon the earth"—
• Leviticus 11:44.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any species of creature that is born from rotted matter (as opposed to creatures conceived from a male and female).
•
• Negative Commandment 178
•
• Insects that Develop inside Fruit or Seeds
•
• "Among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, you shall not eat them for they are an abomination"—Leviticus 11:42.
• It is forbidden to eat any living creature that is born within fruits or seeds—once they have exited the fruit or seed (even if they have now reentered).
• HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
• CHILDREN OF YISRA'EL: HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
• WHY REFUSE TO CALL THE DAYS BY THE NAME OF PAGAN DIETIES?
• YHWH CREATED THEM, AND DID WONDROUS THINGS ON EACH!! WHY IS EACH DAY TO BE HELD IN SACRED AWE, AND WHY MUST WE AMONG ALL THE BLESSINGS HE GIVES OFFER PRAISE UNTO THE MOST HIGH YHWH EACH AND EVERY DAY?
• ...
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• Hebrew Day's Names
• Hebrew......................Meaning
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• 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. {P
•
• Topics in the news
•
• Treasure worth at least 2,500 crore is found at Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India.
• The wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco (pictured), and Charlene Wittstock takes place at the Prince's Palace in Monaco.
• Astronomers announce the discovery of ULAS J1120+0641, the most distant quasar yet found.
• The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, the world's longest cross-sea bridge, opens in Shandong, People's Republic of China.
• The 1,318 km (819 mi) Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway opens after 39 months of construction.
• Amid heavy protests, the Greek parliament passes austerity measures to obtain the latest tranche of a €110 billion EFSF loan.
•
• Current events
•
• Disasters
•
• Mount Soputan, a volcano in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province erupts. (AFP via France 24)
•
• International relations
•
• South Korea has announced plans to submit a claim to the United Nations to a larger portion of the East China Sea in a move which is likely to be disputed by the People's Republic of China and Japan. (Yonhap)
•
• Politics and elections
•
• Thailand votes in its 26th general election with exit polls showing the Pheu Thai Party loyal to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra likely to win a majority. (Thai News Agency) (BBC), (Bangkok Post), (Bloomberg)
• In Lebanon, Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah rejects the indictment and arrest warrants served by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon three days earlier against the party's four senior members. (BBC), (Al Jazeera)
•
• Sport
•
• An executive and her director boyfriend working with the Olympic Park Legacy Company are reportedly suspended following claims that they were paid by West Ham United F.C. to secure the use of the 2012 Summer Olympics stadium after the games. (Sky News)
•
• Today in Judaism
•
• Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
•
• Today's Laws & Customs
• Rosh Chodesh Observances
•
• Today is the second of the two Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") days for the Hebrew month of "Tammuz" (when a month has 30 days, both the last day of the month and the first day of the following month serve as the following month's Rosh Chodesh).
• Special portions are added to the daily prayers: Hallel (Psalms 113-118) is recited -- in its "partial" form -- following the Shacharit morning prayer, and the Yaaleh V'yavo prayer is added to the Amidah and to Grace After Meals; the additional Musaf prayer is said (when Rosh Chodesh is Shabbat, special additions are made to the Shabbat Musaf). Tachnun (confession of sins) and similar prayers are omitted.
• Many have the custom to mark Rosh Chodesh with a festive meal and reduced work activity. The latter custom is prevalent amongst women, who have a special affinity with Rosh Chodesh -- the month being the feminine aspect of the Jewish Calendar.
•
•
• Today in Jewish History
•
• Birth and Passing of Joseph (1562 and 1452 BCE)
• Joseph, the son of the patriarch Jacob, was born in Charan (Mesopotamia) on the 1st of Tammuz of the year 2199 from creation (1562 BCE), the first child of Jacob's most beloved wife, Rachel, born after 7 childless years of marriage. He passed away on the same date 110 years later, in Egypt.
• When Joseph was six years old, Jacob and his family returned to the Holy Land, eventually settling in Hebron. Though younger than 10 of his 11 brothers, he was his father's favorite, and a great rivalry existed between him and his brothers, whose animosity toward him increased when he related two dreams he had forecasting that he is destined to rule over them.
• When Joseph was 17, he was sold into slavery by his brothers and taken to Egypt; when he refused the advances of his master's wife, she had him placed in prison, where he languished for 12 years. At age 30, he interpreted a pair of mysterious dreams dreamt by Pharaoh, and was appointed viceroy of Egypt to oversee the gathering and storage of grain in preparation for the seven years of famine that Pharaoh's dreams had predicted. He married Asnat, and had two children, Menasseh and Ephraim.
• The great famine brought his brothers to Egypt to purchase grain; after subjecting them to a series of trials to test their loyalty to each other and their remorse over what they had done to him, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, was reconciled with them, and settled his father and entire family -- 70 souls in all -- in Egypt.
• Joseph passed away in Egypt on his 110th birthday. The first of his brothers to die, he transmitted to them the divine promise to Jacob that his children will be taken out of Egypt and restored to their homeland, and made them promise to take his remains with them when they go.
•
• Daily Quote
•
• What is inscribed in G-d's tefillin? "Who is like Your people Israel, one nation in the earth" (Samuel II, 7:23)
- Talmud, Berachot 6a
•
• Daily Study
•
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Balak, 1st Portion Numbers 22:2-22:12 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 1 - 9
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, beginning of Chapter 9
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter One
• 3 Chapters: MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 5, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 6, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 7
•
• Hayom Yom:
•
• "Today's Day"
•
• Mesirat nefesh (self-sacrifice) for Torah-scholars means, "When a man dies in a tent,"1 as interpreted by our sages,2 to "put to death" all pleasure-taking in worldly matters - for even trivial wordly delights are obstacles to being thoroughly devoted and dedicated to the "tent" of Torah.
•
• Today's Mitzvah
•
• A daily digest of Maimonides’ classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"
•
• Negative Commandment 173
•
• Non-Kosher Fish
•
• "And they shall be a detestable thing to you, you shall not eat from their meat, and their
• carcasses you shall hold in abomination"—Leviticus 11:11.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any non-kosher fish.
•
• Negative Commandment 175
•
• Flying Insects
•
• "And every creeping flying thing is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten"—Deuteronomy 14:19.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any flying insect, such as flies, bees or hornets.
•
• Negative Commandment 176
•
• Creeping Land Creatures
•
• "And every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten"—Leviticus 11:41.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any creature that creeps on the ground, such as bugs or worms.
•
• Negative Commandment 177
•
• Insects that are Born from Decay
•
• "You shall not defile yourselves [by eating] any creeping creature that creeps upon the earth"—
• Leviticus 11:44.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any species of creature that is born from rotted matter (as opposed to creatures conceived from a male and female).
•
• Negative Commandment 178
•
• Insects that Develop inside Fruit or Seeds
•
• "Among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, you shall not eat them for they are an abomination"—Leviticus 11:42.
• It is forbidden to eat any living creature that is born within fruits or seeds—once they have exited the fruit or seed (even if they have now reentered).
• HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
• CHILDREN OF YISRA'EL: HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
• WHY REFUSE TO CALL THE DAYS BY THE NAME OF PAGAN DIETIES?
• YHWH CREATED THEM, AND DID WONDROUS THINGS ON EACH!! WHY IS EACH DAY TO BE HELD IN SACRED AWE, AND WHY MUST WE AMONG ALL THE BLESSINGS HE GIVES OFFER PRAISE UNTO THE MOST HIGH YHWH EACH AND EVERY DAY?
• ...
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• Hebrew Day's Names
• Hebrew......................Meaning
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• 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. {P
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