• Today is: Yom Shleeshee, Tammuz 3, 5771 • July 5, 2011
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• Topics in the news
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• Otto von Habsburg, former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, dies at the age of 98.
• In the Thai general election, the Pheu Thai Party, led by Yingluck Shinawatra, wins a landslide majority against the Democrat Party, led by Abhisit Vejjajiva.
• In tennis, Petra Kvitova wins the women's singles and Novak Djokovic 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.
• Current events
•
• Armed conflict and attacks
•
• A F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force based in Naha Air Base on Okinawa goes missing on a training exercise on the East China Sea. (Kyodo News)
• At least 27 people are killed and 50 others are wounded during two explosions in Taji, Iraq. (BBC)
• Northern Province of Sri Lanka, severely affected by the civil war, is opened to foreigners and journalists who hold passports. (BBC)
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• Arts and culture
•
• Ghulam Nabi Azad, health minister of India, correctly describes same sex sex as "unnatural" and homosexuality as a "disease" which is "spreading fast" throughout the country. (BBC) (AP via The Washington Post) (The New Zealand Herald) (The Irish Times)
• Sony Music Ireland investigates a possible hacking incident after the early morning appearance of stories relating to R. Kelly, The X Factor and the hoax deaths of members of The Script on its website. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
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• Business and economy
•
• Christine Lagarde officially starts as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC)
•
• Trainmaker Bombardier Transportation cuts 1,400 jobs from its United Kingdom factory in the English city of Derby after missing out on the £1.4bn Thameslink project. (BBC)
•
• Disasters
•
• A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurs 30 kilometres west of Taupo in the Waikato Region of the North Island of New Zealand. (TV New Zealand)
• The Japanese media reports that Ryu Matsumoto will resign as Minister of State for Disaster Management after making insensitive remarks while touring areas hit by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (AP via ABC News America) (BBC)
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• Law and crime
•
• News of the World phone hacking affair:
•
• British tabloid News of the World faces fresh allegations linking it to hacking activities, this time after it emerges that the mobile phone of murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler was interfered with and messages left by relatives were deleted. This gave relatives the false impression that Milly Dowler was still alive when she was not. (BBC)
• Colin Stagg, the man who was falsely accused of Rachel Nickell's 1992 murder on Wimbledon Common, is informed that he too had his phone hacked by the News of the World tabloid, as many as six years after he was acquitted. Robert Napper later admitted responsibility. (The Guardian)
• 13 UK Uncut activists appear in court on charges of aggravated trespass after peacefully occupying the luxury London food retailer Fortnum & Mason during a protest against tax avoidance in March. More than 100 other activists are also expected to be put on trial later, with Labour MP John McDonnell claiming such a trial would be "outrageous" and "fly in the face of public opinion". (The Guardian)
• The Netherlands is held responsible for the deaths of three Bosniaks during the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, according to a court ruling in The Hague. (BBC)
• New South Wales police are given more powers to remove burqas as anyone refusing to do so faces fines of thousands of dollars or months behind bars. (BBC) (AFP via France 24)
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• Sport
•
• A United Kingdom House of Commons inquiry into allegations of corruption associated with bids for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup tournaments accuses FIFA of trying to dismiss the allegations and questions FIFA President Sepp Blatter's commitment to reform. (Reuters vis TV New Zealand)
• Yuri Ogorodonik is sacked as the coach of India's track and field squad after eight athletes were suspended within a week for failing doping tests. (AP via USA Today)
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• Today in Judaism
• Today's Laws & Customs
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• Yahrtzeit Observances
•
• Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidim observe the customs of the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the passing) in accordance with the customs instituted by the Rebbe for the yahrtzeit of his father-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), following his passing on the 10th of Shevat in 1950.
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• Today in Jewish History
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• Joshua Stops the Sun (1273 BCE)
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• On the third of Tammuz of the year 2488 from creation (1273 BCE), Joshua was leading the Jewish people in one of the battles to conquer the Land of Israel. Victory was imminent, but darkness was about to fall. "Sun," proclaimed Joshua, "be still at Giv'on; moon, at the Ayalon valley" (Joshua 10:12). The heavenly bodies acquiesced, halting their progress through the sky until Israel's armies brought the battle to its successful conclusion.
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• Lubavitch Fire (1851)
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• A great fire destroyed much of the town of Lubavitch, including the home of the third Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the "Tzemach Tzeddek", 1789-1826) and many invaluable manuscripts of Chassidic teaching.
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• R. Yosef Yitzchak Released from Prison (1927)
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• The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), who was arrested on Sivan 15 of 1927 by agents of the GPU (soviet secret police) and the Yevsektzia ("Jewish section" of the Communist Party) for his work to preserve and disseminate Jewish learning and observance throughout the Soviet Empire. Held in the notorious Spalerno prison in Leningrad, he was repeatedly interrogated and beaten. Initially sentenced to death, international pressure compelled the Soviet regime to first commute the sentence to ten years hard labor in Siberia, and then to a three-year term of exile in Kostrama, a town in the interior of Russia.
• On the 3rd of Tammuz, 18 days after his arrest, he was released from prison and allowed six hours at home before reporting to the Leningrad train station to embark on his exile. Many gathered at the station to see him off. Though he knew that there were GPU agents present, he spoke to the assembled crowd, encouraging all to persist in the very activities for which he had been arrested. "This," he proclaimed "all the nations of the world must know: Only our bodies were sent into exile and subjugated to alien rule; our souls were not given over into captivity and foreign rule. We must proclaim openly and before all that any matter affecting the Jewish religion, Torah, and its mitzvot and customs is not subject to the coercion of others. No one can impose his belief upon us, nor coerce us to conduct ourselves contrary to our beliefs!"
• (On the 12th of Tammuz, after serving only nine days of his three year term, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak was informed that he was free to return home. Shortly thereafter, he was allowed to leave the Soviet Union and resettled in Riga, Latvia.)
• Rebbe's Yahrtzeit (1994)
• The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory (b. 1902) passed away in the early morning hours of the 3rd of Tammuz, of the year 5754 from creation (1994). See today's Laws & Customs.
• Links
• The Ohel (the Rebbe's resting place)
• Portal commemorating the Rebbe’s anniversary of passing
• More on the 3rd of Tammuz
• A brief biography of the Rebbe
• Daily Quote
• Rabbi Elazar of Bartosa would say: Give Him what is His, for you, and whatever is yours, are His. As David says (I Chronicles 29:14): "For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we give to You..."
- Ethics of the Fathers 3:7
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Balak, 3rd Portion Numbers 22:21-22:38 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 18 - 22
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 9
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter Three
• 3 Chapters: MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 11, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 12, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 13
• Hayom Yom:
• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
• Negative Commandment 181
• The Injured Animal
• "You shall not eat any meat that is torn in the field"—Exodus 22:30.
• It is forbidden to consume the flesh of an animal that has been attacked by another animal and sustained life-threatening injuries, or an animal that has sustained such injuries in another manner, even if it has been ritually slaughtered.
• The fact that the Torah employs the words "in the field" when issuing this prohibition teaches us that certain other meats that have "left their natural borders" are also forbidden. This includes flesh of a sacrifice that has left its confines (e.g., the flesh of a "holy of holies" sacrifice that left the Temple Courtyard), and the fetus that has extended an arm [or leg outside his mother's womb and then its mother was slaughtered before it was born—this limb is forever forbidden for consumption].
• This prohibition also includes any flesh torn from a living animal.
• Negative Commandment 182
• The Limb of a Living Animal
• "And you may not eat the life with the meat"—Deuteronomy 12:23.
• It is forbidden to eat a complete limb removed from a living animal.
• Negative Commandment 184
• Consuming Blood
• "You shall not eat any blood"—Leviticus 7:26.
• It is forbidden to consume [a kosher mammal or bird's] blood. This prohibition is repeated several times in the Torah.
• Negative Commandment 185
• Forbidden Fats
• "You shall eat no fat of an ox, sheep, or goat"—Leviticus 7:23.
• It is forbidden to consume [certain] fats [that were offered on the Temple Altar] of kosher domesticated animals.
• Negative Commandment 183
• The Sciatic Nerve
• "Therefore the children of Israel shall not eat the sciatic nerve"—Genesis 32:33.
• It is forbidden to consume an animal's sciatic nerve.
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
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• Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day
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• וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶל-מָקוֹם אֶחָד, וְתֵרָאֶה, הַיַּבָּשָׁה; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 9 And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.
• י וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לַיַּבָּשָׁה אֶרֶץ, וּלְמִקְוֵה הַמַּיִם קָרָא יַמִּים; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 10
• And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.
• יא וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, תַּדְשֵׁא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, עֵץ פְּרִי עֹשֶׂה פְּרִי לְמִינוֹ, אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 11
• And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
• יב וַתּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, לְמִינֵהוּ, וְעֵץ עֹשֶׂה-פְּרִי אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ, לְמִינֵהוּ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 12
• And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
• יג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי. {פ} 13
• And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. {P}
•
• Topics in the news
•
• Otto von Habsburg, former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, dies at the age of 98.
• In the Thai general election, the Pheu Thai Party, led by Yingluck Shinawatra, wins a landslide majority against the Democrat Party, led by Abhisit Vejjajiva.
• In tennis, Petra Kvitova wins the women's singles and Novak Djokovic 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.
• Current events
•
• Armed conflict and attacks
•
• A F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force based in Naha Air Base on Okinawa goes missing on a training exercise on the East China Sea. (Kyodo News)
• At least 27 people are killed and 50 others are wounded during two explosions in Taji, Iraq. (BBC)
• Northern Province of Sri Lanka, severely affected by the civil war, is opened to foreigners and journalists who hold passports. (BBC)
•
• Arts and culture
•
• Ghulam Nabi Azad, health minister of India, correctly describes same sex sex as "unnatural" and homosexuality as a "disease" which is "spreading fast" throughout the country. (BBC) (AP via The Washington Post) (The New Zealand Herald) (The Irish Times)
• Sony Music Ireland investigates a possible hacking incident after the early morning appearance of stories relating to R. Kelly, The X Factor and the hoax deaths of members of The Script on its website. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
•
• Business and economy
•
• Christine Lagarde officially starts as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC)
•
• Trainmaker Bombardier Transportation cuts 1,400 jobs from its United Kingdom factory in the English city of Derby after missing out on the £1.4bn Thameslink project. (BBC)
•
• Disasters
•
• A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurs 30 kilometres west of Taupo in the Waikato Region of the North Island of New Zealand. (TV New Zealand)
• The Japanese media reports that Ryu Matsumoto will resign as Minister of State for Disaster Management after making insensitive remarks while touring areas hit by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (AP via ABC News America) (BBC)
•
• Law and crime
•
• News of the World phone hacking affair:
•
• British tabloid News of the World faces fresh allegations linking it to hacking activities, this time after it emerges that the mobile phone of murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler was interfered with and messages left by relatives were deleted. This gave relatives the false impression that Milly Dowler was still alive when she was not. (BBC)
• Colin Stagg, the man who was falsely accused of Rachel Nickell's 1992 murder on Wimbledon Common, is informed that he too had his phone hacked by the News of the World tabloid, as many as six years after he was acquitted. Robert Napper later admitted responsibility. (The Guardian)
• 13 UK Uncut activists appear in court on charges of aggravated trespass after peacefully occupying the luxury London food retailer Fortnum & Mason during a protest against tax avoidance in March. More than 100 other activists are also expected to be put on trial later, with Labour MP John McDonnell claiming such a trial would be "outrageous" and "fly in the face of public opinion". (The Guardian)
• The Netherlands is held responsible for the deaths of three Bosniaks during the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, according to a court ruling in The Hague. (BBC)
• New South Wales police are given more powers to remove burqas as anyone refusing to do so faces fines of thousands of dollars or months behind bars. (BBC) (AFP via France 24)
•
• Sport
•
• A United Kingdom House of Commons inquiry into allegations of corruption associated with bids for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup tournaments accuses FIFA of trying to dismiss the allegations and questions FIFA President Sepp Blatter's commitment to reform. (Reuters vis TV New Zealand)
• Yuri Ogorodonik is sacked as the coach of India's track and field squad after eight athletes were suspended within a week for failing doping tests. (AP via USA Today)
•
• Today in Judaism
• Today's Laws & Customs
•
• Yahrtzeit Observances
•
• Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidim observe the customs of the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the passing) in accordance with the customs instituted by the Rebbe for the yahrtzeit of his father-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), following his passing on the 10th of Shevat in 1950.
•
• Today in Jewish History
•
•
• Joshua Stops the Sun (1273 BCE)
•
• On the third of Tammuz of the year 2488 from creation (1273 BCE), Joshua was leading the Jewish people in one of the battles to conquer the Land of Israel. Victory was imminent, but darkness was about to fall. "Sun," proclaimed Joshua, "be still at Giv'on; moon, at the Ayalon valley" (Joshua 10:12). The heavenly bodies acquiesced, halting their progress through the sky until Israel's armies brought the battle to its successful conclusion.
•
• Lubavitch Fire (1851)
•
• A great fire destroyed much of the town of Lubavitch, including the home of the third Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the "Tzemach Tzeddek", 1789-1826) and many invaluable manuscripts of Chassidic teaching.
•
• R. Yosef Yitzchak Released from Prison (1927)
•
• The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), who was arrested on Sivan 15 of 1927 by agents of the GPU (soviet secret police) and the Yevsektzia ("Jewish section" of the Communist Party) for his work to preserve and disseminate Jewish learning and observance throughout the Soviet Empire. Held in the notorious Spalerno prison in Leningrad, he was repeatedly interrogated and beaten. Initially sentenced to death, international pressure compelled the Soviet regime to first commute the sentence to ten years hard labor in Siberia, and then to a three-year term of exile in Kostrama, a town in the interior of Russia.
• On the 3rd of Tammuz, 18 days after his arrest, he was released from prison and allowed six hours at home before reporting to the Leningrad train station to embark on his exile. Many gathered at the station to see him off. Though he knew that there were GPU agents present, he spoke to the assembled crowd, encouraging all to persist in the very activities for which he had been arrested. "This," he proclaimed "all the nations of the world must know: Only our bodies were sent into exile and subjugated to alien rule; our souls were not given over into captivity and foreign rule. We must proclaim openly and before all that any matter affecting the Jewish religion, Torah, and its mitzvot and customs is not subject to the coercion of others. No one can impose his belief upon us, nor coerce us to conduct ourselves contrary to our beliefs!"
• (On the 12th of Tammuz, after serving only nine days of his three year term, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak was informed that he was free to return home. Shortly thereafter, he was allowed to leave the Soviet Union and resettled in Riga, Latvia.)
• Rebbe's Yahrtzeit (1994)
• The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory (b. 1902) passed away in the early morning hours of the 3rd of Tammuz, of the year 5754 from creation (1994). See today's Laws & Customs.
• Links
• The Ohel (the Rebbe's resting place)
• Portal commemorating the Rebbe’s anniversary of passing
• More on the 3rd of Tammuz
• A brief biography of the Rebbe
• Daily Quote
• Rabbi Elazar of Bartosa would say: Give Him what is His, for you, and whatever is yours, are His. As David says (I Chronicles 29:14): "For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we give to You..."
- Ethics of the Fathers 3:7
• Daily Study
• Chitas and Rambam for today:
• Chumash: Balak, 3rd Portion Numbers 22:21-22:38 with Rashi
• Tehillim: Chapters 18 - 22
• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 9
• Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter Three
• 3 Chapters: MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 11, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 12, MaAchalot Assurot Chapter 13
• Hayom Yom:
• Daily Mitzvah (Maimonides)
• Negative Commandment 181
• The Injured Animal
• "You shall not eat any meat that is torn in the field"—Exodus 22:30.
• It is forbidden to consume the flesh of an animal that has been attacked by another animal and sustained life-threatening injuries, or an animal that has sustained such injuries in another manner, even if it has been ritually slaughtered.
• The fact that the Torah employs the words "in the field" when issuing this prohibition teaches us that certain other meats that have "left their natural borders" are also forbidden. This includes flesh of a sacrifice that has left its confines (e.g., the flesh of a "holy of holies" sacrifice that left the Temple Courtyard), and the fetus that has extended an arm [or leg outside his mother's womb and then its mother was slaughtered before it was born—this limb is forever forbidden for consumption].
• This prohibition also includes any flesh torn from a living animal.
• Negative Commandment 182
• The Limb of a Living Animal
• "And you may not eat the life with the meat"—Deuteronomy 12:23.
• It is forbidden to eat a complete limb removed from a living animal.
• Negative Commandment 184
• Consuming Blood
• "You shall not eat any blood"—Leviticus 7:26.
• It is forbidden to consume [a kosher mammal or bird's] blood. This prohibition is repeated several times in the Torah.
• Negative Commandment 185
• Forbidden Fats
• "You shall eat no fat of an ox, sheep, or goat"—Leviticus 7:23.
• It is forbidden to consume [certain] fats [that were offered on the Temple Altar] of kosher domesticated animals.
• Negative Commandment 183
• The Sciatic Nerve
• "Therefore the children of Israel shall not eat the sciatic nerve"—Genesis 32:33.
• It is forbidden to consume an animal's sciatic nerve.
• THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
• Genesis Chapter 1
• בְּרֵאשִׁית
•
• Yom Shlee´shee.........Third day
•
• וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶל-מָקוֹם אֶחָד, וְתֵרָאֶה, הַיַּבָּשָׁה; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 9 And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.
• י וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לַיַּבָּשָׁה אֶרֶץ, וּלְמִקְוֵה הַמַּיִם קָרָא יַמִּים; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 10
• And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.
• יא וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, תַּדְשֵׁא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, עֵץ פְּרִי עֹשֶׂה פְּרִי לְמִינוֹ, אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. 11
• And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
• יב וַתּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ דֶּשֶׁא עֵשֶׂב מַזְרִיעַ זֶרַע, לְמִינֵהוּ, וְעֵץ עֹשֶׂה-פְּרִי אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ-בוֹ, לְמִינֵהוּ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 12
• And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
• יג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי. {פ} 13
• And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. {P}
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