• Today is: , Tammuz 2, 5771 • 7 4, 2011
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• Topics in the news
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• In tennis, Petra Kvitová (pictured) wins the women's singles and Novak Đoković wins the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships.
• Former President of Brazil Itamar Franco dies at the age of 81.
• Treasure worth at least 25 billion rupees (€385 million) is found at Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India.
• The wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, 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.
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• Current events
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• Armed conflict and attacks
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• Saboteurs bomb an Egyptian pipeline at Nagah in the Sinai Peninsula delivering gas to Israel and Jordan. (AFP via Jakarta Post), (Al-Jazeera)
• A corporal in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps goes on a killing spree while on duty at a guard post on South Korea's Ganghwa Island killing three people and injuring two people. (Yonhap News), (BBC)
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• Disasters
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• At least two people are dead and four are missing after a landslide in a village in western Nepal. (AP via Washington Post)
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• Law and crime
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• Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is scheduled to enter a plea on charges of genocide in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war at a United Nations war crimes court. (Reuters via France 24)
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• Politics
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• Thai politics
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• Abhisit Vejjajiva, the outgoing Prime Minister of Thailand, resigns as the leader of the Democrat Party following a heavy defeat in yesterday's general election. (Bangkok Post)
• The presumptive Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra announces a five party coalition led by her Puea Thai Party which will have a membership of sixty per cent of the Thai parliament. (Reuters)
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• Today in Judaism
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• Today in Jewish History
• Passing of Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka (Gorodenka) (1765)
• Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka was a close colleague of the Baal Shem Tov. His son, Rabbi Simcha, married the Baal Shem Tov's daughter, Udel. Their son, the famed Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, became the founder of Breslov Chassidism. The Baal Shem Tov once asked Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka to deliver a letter to Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch (who later became known as the Mezritcher Maggid) in which he attempted to persuade Rabbi Dov Ber to become his disciple. Upon receiving the letter, Rabbi Dov Ber said, "I see an auspicious sign in the student who bears this letter. If Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka is such a holy tzaddik, how much more so is his teacher-the Baal Shem Tov." Rabbi Dov Ber then agreed to meet with the Baal Shem Tov and later to join the Chassidic movement.
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• Daily Quote
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• A person is obligated to say: The entire world was created for my sake
- Talmud, Kiddushin 82b
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• Daily Study
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• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Balak, 2nd Portion Numbers 22:13-22:20 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 10 - 17
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 9
• Rambam:
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• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter Two
• 3 Chapters: MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 8, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 9, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 10
• Hayom Yom:
• "Today's Day"
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• The Alter Rebbe writes in his Siddur1: It is proper to say before prayer, I hereby take upon myself to fulfill the mitzva - "Love your fellowman as yourself." This means that the precept of ahavat yisrael2 is the entry-gate through which man can pass to stand before G-d to daven. By merit of that love the worshipper's prayer is accepted.
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• Today's Mitzvah
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• Negative Commandment 179
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• Creeping Creatures or Insects
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• "You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them"—Leviticus 11:43.
• It is forbidden to eat any creeping creature or insect.
• Though there are other prohibitions regarding specific types of insects and creeping creatures (e.g., flying ones, ones that creep on the ground), this prohibition adds a second "encompassing" prohibition on all sorts of creeping creatures, so that one who eats a specific type of creeping creature has transgressed two commandments.
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• Negative Commandment 180
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• Creatures that were not Properly Slaughtered
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• "You shall not eat any carcass "—Deuteronomy 14:21.
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• It is forbidden to eat any [kosher animal, beast or bird] that has died [without being ritually slaughtered].
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• Negative Commandment 188
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• The Flesh of a Condemned Ox
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• "And his flesh shall not be eaten"—Exodus 21:28.
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• It is forbidden to eat of the flesh of an ox [or any other animal] condemned to death by the courts [e.g., for killing a human]. This prohibition holds even if the ox was properly slaughtered before the sentence was carried out.
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• Yom Shaynee ............Second day
• CREATION DAY THE HEAVENS EARTH, AND WATERS
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• ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם, וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל, בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם.
• 6And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'
• ז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הָרָקִיעַ, וַיַּבְדֵּל בֵּין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתַּחַת לָרָקִיעַ, וּבֵין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מֵעַל לָרָקִיעַ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 7
• And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
• ח וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָרָקִיעַ, שָׁמָיִם; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שֵׁנִי. {פ} 8
• And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
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• Topics in the news
•
• In tennis, Petra Kvitová (pictured) wins the women's singles and Novak Đoković wins the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships.
• Former President of Brazil Itamar Franco dies at the age of 81.
• Treasure worth at least 25 billion rupees (€385 million) is found at Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India.
• The wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, 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.
•
• Current events
•
• Armed conflict and attacks
•
• Saboteurs bomb an Egyptian pipeline at Nagah in the Sinai Peninsula delivering gas to Israel and Jordan. (AFP via Jakarta Post), (Al-Jazeera)
• A corporal in the Republic of Korea Marine Corps goes on a killing spree while on duty at a guard post on South Korea's Ganghwa Island killing three people and injuring two people. (Yonhap News), (BBC)
•
• Disasters
•
• At least two people are dead and four are missing after a landslide in a village in western Nepal. (AP via Washington Post)
•
• Law and crime
•
• Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is scheduled to enter a plea on charges of genocide in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war at a United Nations war crimes court. (Reuters via France 24)
•
• Politics
•
• Thai politics
•
• Abhisit Vejjajiva, the outgoing Prime Minister of Thailand, resigns as the leader of the Democrat Party following a heavy defeat in yesterday's general election. (Bangkok Post)
• The presumptive Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra announces a five party coalition led by her Puea Thai Party which will have a membership of sixty per cent of the Thai parliament. (Reuters)
•
• Today in Judaism
•
• Today in Jewish History
• Passing of Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka (Gorodenka) (1765)
• Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka was a close colleague of the Baal Shem Tov. His son, Rabbi Simcha, married the Baal Shem Tov's daughter, Udel. Their son, the famed Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, became the founder of Breslov Chassidism. The Baal Shem Tov once asked Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka to deliver a letter to Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch (who later became known as the Mezritcher Maggid) in which he attempted to persuade Rabbi Dov Ber to become his disciple. Upon receiving the letter, Rabbi Dov Ber said, "I see an auspicious sign in the student who bears this letter. If Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka is such a holy tzaddik, how much more so is his teacher-the Baal Shem Tov." Rabbi Dov Ber then agreed to meet with the Baal Shem Tov and later to join the Chassidic movement.
•
• Daily Quote
•
• A person is obligated to say: The entire world was created for my sake
- Talmud, Kiddushin 82b
•
• Daily Study
•
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Balak, 2nd Portion Numbers 22:13-22:20 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 10 - 17
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Chapter 9
• Rambam:
•
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter Two
• 3 Chapters: MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 8, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 9, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 10
• Hayom Yom:
• "Today's Day"
•
• The Alter Rebbe writes in his Siddur1: It is proper to say before prayer, I hereby take upon myself to fulfill the mitzva - "Love your fellowman as yourself." This means that the precept of ahavat yisrael2 is the entry-gate through which man can pass to stand before G-d to daven. By merit of that love the worshipper's prayer is accepted.
•
• Today's Mitzvah
•
• Negative Commandment 179
•
• Creeping Creatures or Insects
•
• "You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them"—Leviticus 11:43.
• It is forbidden to eat any creeping creature or insect.
• Though there are other prohibitions regarding specific types of insects and creeping creatures (e.g., flying ones, ones that creep on the ground), this prohibition adds a second "encompassing" prohibition on all sorts of creeping creatures, so that one who eats a specific type of creeping creature has transgressed two commandments.
•
• Negative Commandment 180
•
• Creatures that were not Properly Slaughtered
•
• "You shall not eat any carcass "—Deuteronomy 14:21.
•
• It is forbidden to eat any [kosher animal, beast or bird] that has died [without being ritually slaughtered].
•
• Negative Commandment 188
•
• The Flesh of a Condemned Ox
•
• "And his flesh shall not be eaten"—Exodus 21:28.
•
• It is forbidden to eat of the flesh of an ox [or any other animal] condemned to death by the courts [e.g., for killing a human]. This prohibition holds even if the ox was properly slaughtered before the sentence was carried out.
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
• Yom Shaynee ............Second day
• CREATION DAY THE HEAVENS EARTH, AND WATERS
•
• ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם, וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל, בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם.
• 6And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'
• ז וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הָרָקִיעַ, וַיַּבְדֵּל בֵּין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מִתַּחַת לָרָקִיעַ, וּבֵין הַמַּיִם אֲשֶׁר מֵעַל לָרָקִיעַ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 7
• And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
• ח וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָרָקִיעַ, שָׁמָיִם; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שֵׁנִי. {פ} 8
• And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
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