NEWS AND MIDRASH

Today is: Yom Rishone, Tammuz 8, 5771 • 7 10, 2011




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• Topics in the news



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• During the Bersih 2.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, police arrest more than 1,600 people.

• Following a referendum, South Sudan secedes from Sudan, becoming a sovereign state.



• Space Shuttle Atlantis launches from Kennedy Space Center on flight STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.



• The closure of News of the World is announced amid allegations that the British newspaper engaged in phone hacking.



• The International Olympic Committee announces that Pyeongchang, South Korea, will host the 2018 Winter Olympics.



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• Current events



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• Armed conflicts and attacks



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• Bangladeshi police fire tear gas at Islamist activists trying to enforce a general strike in the town of Keraniganj with dozens hurt in the riots. (AP via Washington Post), (Reuters)



• Three NATO service members are killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan. (AP via Washington Post)



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• Arts and culture



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• The final edition of the News of the World is published in the United Kingdom. (The Guardian)



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• Disasters



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• A strong earthquake of 7.1 magnitude occurs off the coast of Honshu in Japan sparking a tsunami warning. (AP via Washington Post)



• A fire in a retirement home in the village of Beloye in the western Ukraine kills 16 people. (RIA Novosti)



• A hundred people are injured as the Kalka Mail is derailed near the town of Fathepur Malwa in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (IBN Live)



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• Politics



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• The Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard announces the details of a plan to introduce a carbon tax. (Sydney Morning Herald)



• Pro-Palestinian activists begin a week of protests on the West Bank. (Jerusalem Post)



• US government reports decline in teen birth rate and binge drinking, rise in poverty and drug abuse



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• Today in Judaism



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• Today in Jewish History



• Spanish Inquisition Abolished (1834)



• On July 15, 1834, the Office of the Spanish Inquisition was abolished by the Queen Mother Maria Christina, after nearly three and a half centuries. However, the right of public worship (including permission to mark places of worship and advertise religious services) was not granted to the Jews until 1967.



• Jews expelled from Genoa (1567)



• Having become a virtual vassal of Spain, the Republic of Genoa expelled the Jews at the behest of their Spanish overlords.



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• Daily Quote



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• Marriage is giving it your all, and appreciating that you are but a half.



- The Chassidic Masters



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• Daily Study



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• Chitas and Rambam for today:



• Chumash: Pinchas, 1st Portion Numbers 25:10-26:4 with Rashi



• Tehillim: Chapters 44 - 48



• Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 11

• Rambam:

• Sefer Hamitzvos:

• 1 Chapter: Rotseah uShmirat Nefesh Chapter Eight

• 3 Chapters: Shechitah Chapter 9, Shechitah Chapter 10, Shechitah Chapter 11



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• Hayom Yom:



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• "Today's Day"



• We find that G-d's love for our father Avraham was mainly because "...he will command (yetzaveh) his children and his household."1 Yetzaveh here connotes "bring into a communion (with G-d)." All of Avraham's towering avoda in the tests to which he was subjected,2 cannot be compared to his commanding others and bringing them into communion, i.e. to his bringing merit to others.



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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 306



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• Taking a Mother Bird together with Her Young



• "Do not take the mother [bird] together with the children"—Deuteronomy 22:6.



• When we encounter a bird's nest, it is forbidden to take the mother together with the chicks.



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• HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!

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• 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}