Monday, July 18, 2011

NEWS AND MIDRASH

Topics in the news


Tammuz 16, yom shaynee, 7-18-2011

1290 – Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England.

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The FIFA Women's World Cup concludes with Japan defeating the United States to become the first Asian team to ever win the tournament.

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Dawn (artist's impression pictured), a robotic spacecraft, enters orbit around the asteroid 4 Vesta, four years after being launched.

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As the News International phone hacking scandal continues, Rebekah Brooks is arrested and Sir Paul Stephenson resigns as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

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A triple bombing in Mumbai kills at least 19 people and injures 130 others.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seeks worldwide assistance in the Horn of Africa drought, which has left ten million people in need of food aid.

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Ahmed Wali Karzai, Afghan politician and half-brother of President Hamid Karzai, is assassinated.

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Current events of 7 18 2011

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Armed conflicts and attacks

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Arab Spring

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2011 Libyan civil war:

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Rebels claim victory in the eastern town of Brega. (Reuters)

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Former foreign minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham says that the Libyan government was responsible for the bombing of UTA Flight 772 in 1989 over Niger. (Al Arabiya)

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2011 Syrian uprising:

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50 protesters arrested in the city of Hama are released. (BBC)

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Qatar suspends operations at its embassy in Syria, after it was attacked by government supporters. (Gulf News)

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US General David Petraeus hands over command of NATO forces in Afghanistan to United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General John R. Allen. (CNN)

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Arts and culture

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Nine months after a goodwill gesture Japan and South Korea will commence negotiations in August on the return of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean royal archives taken during Japanese .rule between 1910 and 1945. (Yonhap News)

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Disasters

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The eastern United States will have a heat wave this week which has already commenced in the Plains States and Midw.est. (USA Today)

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International relations

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Iran claims to have taken control of three Iranian Kurdish PJAK camps inside Iraq. (Al Arabiya)

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The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev commences a two-day visit to Germany. (RIA Novosti)

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The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton arrives in India for two days of talks with the Indian government. (IBN Live)

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Law and crime

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The trial of five bloggers in the United Arab Emirates for advocating democratic reforms resumes. (Al-Jazeera)

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Politics and elections

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A new Cabinet is sworn in in Egypt with half the former members being replaced due to ongoing protests since the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (Al-Jazeera)

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Sky News reports that Liam Fox, the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, will announce plans to reduce the British Army to its smallest size since the start of the Boer War. (Sky News)

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News International scandal

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David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, cuts short a tour of Africa due to the News of the World phone hacking affair inquiry. (The Guardian)

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Assistant Commissioner John Yates is called in for questioning for his links with former News executive Neil Wallis. (The Telegraph)

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Sports

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Iranian athlete and Iran's Strongest Man, Rouhollah Dadashi were killed in a fight which started as an argument with another driver and his passengers. Two of them were arrested by police. (Blogspot)

Today is:Yom Shaynee , Tammuz 16, 5771 • 7 18, 2011


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Today in Judaism

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Today in Jewish History



Golden Calf Made; Hur Killed (1313 BCE)

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In the year 2448 from Creation (1313 BCE), Tammuz 16 was the 40th day following the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, and the people of Israel wrongly expected Moses' return from the mountain (he would actually return on the following day). When their leader failed to return, they demanded from Aaron: "Make us a god that shall go before us". Hur (Moses' nephew, the son of Miriam and Caleb) tried to stop them and was killed by the mob. Aaron fashioned a calf of molten gold.

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Daily Quote

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When one is connected above, one does not fall below

- Rabbi Meir of Premishlan

Daily Study

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Chitas and Rambam for today:

Chumash: Matot, 2nd Portion Numbers 31:1-31:12 with Rashi

Tehillim: Chapters 79 - 82

Tanya: Igeret HaTeshuva , middle of Chapter 3

Rambam:

• Sefer Hamitzvos:

• 1 Chapter: Mechirah Chapter Three

• 3 Chapters: Nedarim Chapter 7, Nedarim Chapter 8, Nedarim Chapter 9

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Hayom Yom: "Today's Day"

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The Baal Shem Tov's ahavat yisrael (love of fellow Jew) was beyond imagination. The Maggid said: If only we could kiss a sefer-Torah with the same love that my Master kissed the children when he took them to cheder as a teacher's assistant!

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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 157

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Reneging on Verbal Obligations

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"He shall not profane his word; he shall do according to all that issues from his mouth"—Numbers 30:3.

It is forbidden to violate one's verbal pledge, whether that pledge was worded as an oath or not.

Examples of such pledges:

"If so-and-so occurs, or if I do this-and-this, all fruit – or fruit from this city – will become forbidden for me."

"Wine/milk/fish are forbidden for me."

The pleasure of my wife's [intimate company] is forbidden for me."

Any pledge to bring a sacrifice or give an amount of money to charity or to a synagogue.

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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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