Today is: Yom Khameeshee, Tammuz 26, 5771 • 7 28, 2011
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NEWS
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Armed conflict and attacks
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At least seven Philippine Army soldiers are killed and 21 injured in a confrontation with Abu Sayyaf militants on Jolo Island. DPA via Monsters and Critics)
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Business and economy
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Swiss bank Credit Suisse announces plans to cut 2,000 jobs due to poor profit results. (Reuters)
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Japanese electronics company Sony reduces sales and profit forecasts due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a computer hacking attack and slowing demand in the US and Europe. (Bloomberg)
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Disasters
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At least 36 people are dead and dozens missing in South Korea due to landslides caused by heavy rain. (News Limited)
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At least 17 people are killed and 30 injured after a truck collides with a bus in the Bogra District of Bangladesh. (Xinhua)
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International relations
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South Korea resumes sending food aid to North Korea to assist with chronic food shortages. (Yonhap News)
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Today in Jewish History
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• Passing of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (1886)
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Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (1804-1886) was born in Uzhhorod (Ungvar) in the Carpathian region of the Habsburg Empire (now Ukraine). When he was eight years old, Shlomo's father, Rabbi Yosef, passed way, and Ungvar's chief rabbi, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Heller, assumed legal guardianship of Shlomo. In 1830, he abandoned his work as a wine merchant and accepted the position of Rabbi of Brezovica (Brezevitz). In 1849, he returned to Ungvar to serve as a rabbinical judge. Realizing that the average Jew required a basic knowledge of practical halachah, Rabbi Ganzfried compiled the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, an abbreviated digest of Jewish law. To this day, the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch remains a classic halachic work, and it has been translated into many languages.
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In addition to the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, he authored many works including Kesset HaSofer, a halachic primer for scribes, and Pnei Shlomo, a commentary on the Talmud.
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Daily Quote
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When a person walks along without a thought of Torah in his head, the very ground under his feet cries out: "Clod! What makes you any better than me? By what rights do you step on me?"
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- Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Massei, 5th Portion Numbers 35:1-35:8 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapter 119, Verses 97-176
Tanya: Igeret HaTeshuva , middle of Chapter 7
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Mechirah Chapter Thirteen
• 3 Chapters: Kilaayim Chapter 6, Kilaayim Chapter 7, Kilaayim Chapter 8
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Hayom Yom: "Today's Day"
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In Torah-study the person is devoted to the subject that he wishes to understand and comes to understand. In davening the devotion is directed to what surpasses understanding.
In learning Torah the Jew feels like a pupil with his master; in davening - like a child with his father.
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Today's Mitzvah
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Negative Commandment 217
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Interbreeding Animals
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"You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind"—Leviticus 19:19.
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It is forbidden to breed together two different animal species.
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Negative Commandment 218
Working with Two Animal Species
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"You shall not plow with an ox and donkey together"—Deuteronomy 22:10.
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It is forbidden to cause animals of two species to work together, e.g., to have them jointly plow, thresh or pull a wagon.
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Biblically, this prohibition only applies if one of the animals is kosher (e.g., an ox) and the other of a non-kosher species (e.g., a donkey). The Sages, however, extended this prohibition to apply to any two species.
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THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
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Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
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Yom Khah´mee´shee.. Fifth day
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כ וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים--יִשְׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם, שֶׁרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה; וְעוֹף יְעוֹפֵף עַל-הָאָרֶץ, עַל-פְּנֵי רְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם. 20
And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.'
כא וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הַתַּנִּינִם הַגְּדֹלִים; וְאֵת כָּל-נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת אֲשֶׁר שָׁרְצוּ הַמַּיִם לְמִינֵהֶם, וְאֵת כָּל-עוֹף כָּנָף לְמִינֵהוּ, וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. 21
And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
כב וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, לֵאמֹר: פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ, וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הַמַּיִם בַּיַּמִּים, וְהָעוֹף, יִרֶב בָּאָרֶץ. 22 And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'
כג וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי. {פ} 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. {P}
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