Nissan 26, 5771 * April 30, 2011
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T O D A Y I N J U D A I S M
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* Laws * Customs * Jewish History * Daily Quote * Daily Study *
Today is: Shabbat, Nissan 26, 5771
Omer: Day 11 - Netzach sheb'Gevurah
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Today's Laws & Customs
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· Blessing the New Month
This Shabbat is Shabbat Mevarchim ("the Shabbat that blesses" the new month): a special prayer is recited blessing the Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") of upcoming month of Iyar [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=2C5281B3AC65187722D772CDC6DAAF73&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], which falls on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Prior to the blessing, we announce the precise time of the molad, the "birth" of the new moon. Click here [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A15C1A5870B1A2327A29F8B7355428D1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] for molad times.
It is a Chabad custom to recite the entire book of Psalms before morning prayers, and to conduct farbrengens (chassidic gatherings) in the course of the Shabbat.
Links: On the Significance of Shabbat Mevarchim [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F95EE6F07B924A8C921C8C657B6370DB&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]; Tehillim [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=7596206589C68CDD4E1EF4CED1C4BAE9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] (the Book of Psalms); The Farbrengen [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=E98931E52667F308518864099C766769&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
· Ethics of the Fathers: Chapter 1
In preparation for the festival of Shavuot [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CEC6099E5363379EE5BE426BEB84B067&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], we study one of the six chapters of the Talmud's Ethics of the Fathers ("Avot") on the afternoon of each of the six Shabbatot between Passover and Shavuot; this week, being the first Shabbat after Passover, we study Chapter One. (In many communities -- and such is the Chabad custom -- the study cycle is repeated through the summer, until the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah.)
Link: Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 1 [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=E039EA46906F51332EB4BB8E45CEFAE2&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
· Count "Twelve Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the twelvth day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall of the previous evening, we count the omer for tomorrow's date tonight, after nightfall: "Today is twelve days, which are one week and five days, to the Omer." (If you miss the count tonight, you can count the omer all day tomorrow, but without the preceding blessing).
The 49-day "Counting of the Omer" retraces our ancestors' seven-week spiritual journey from the Exodus to Sinai. Each evening we recite a special blessing and count the days and weeks that have passed since the Omer; the 50th day is Shavuot [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CEC6099E5363379EE5BE426BEB84B067&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
Tonight's Sefirah: Hod sheb'Gevurah -- "Humility in Restraint"
The teachings of Kabbalah explain that there are seven "Divine Attributes" -- Sefirot -- that G-d assumes through which to relate to our existence: Chessed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut ("Love", "Strength", "Beauty", "Victory", "Splendor", "Foundation" and "Sovereignty"). In the human being, created in the "image of G-d," the seven sefirot are mirrored in the seven "emotional attributes" of the human soul: Kindness, Restraint, Harmony, Ambition, Humility, Connection and Receptiveness. Each of the seven attributes contain elements of all seven--i.e., "Kindness in Kindness", "Restraint in Kindness", "Harmony in Kindness", etc.--making for a total of forty-nine traits. The 49-day Omer Count is thus a 49-step process of self-refinement, with each day devoted to the "rectification" and perfection of one the forty-nine "sefirot."
Links:
How to count the Omer [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=94C9ABC16184C68FEA18D55DD9C09250&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
The deeper significance [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=50305900661F9FEBD66B533F676A44D0&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] of the Omer Count
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Today in Jewish History
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· Passing of Joshua (1245 BCE)
Joshua (1355-1245 BCE), who assumed the leadership of the people of Israel after Moses' [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D49BE773D73AE9D79A18F67DD4C14B74&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] passing (see Jewish History for the 5th of Adar [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=878031097616B9E1B0F846302EE1E808&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]) and led them into the Holy Land (see Jewish History for the 10th of Nissan [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=FE55CEF636F53AECB8E4FB428CCC9F77&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]), passed away on Nissan 26. He passed away at the age of 110, in the 28th year of his leadership. He was buried in his own estate in Timnat-Serach, in Mount Ephraim.
Links:
Brief Biography of Joshua [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F68453E6D71F46E17C1ED6BE5DC89C26&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
More on Joshuah [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A091A850B37E2DF5102F6046DBA73A61&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Kedoshim, 7th Portion Leviticus 20:23-20:27 with Rashi
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=7A51E63E8E3F1B210BC56F6A416303B9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Tehillim: Chapter 119, Verses 97-176
· Hebrew text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F784832C36BC7A31754AA884B4E178AF&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· English text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=507A002096BA4784FA61FFDC0ED185DE&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 43
· Lesson in Tanya:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1AD01C2C61208C0A6262F3299669DAC6&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Tanya Audio Class:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=2EC95D7F346D54843D7BAD51AFBFD2C8&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Rambam:
· Sefer Hamitzvos:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=541A5E1C8CE29FA72C2E902AB2A724B3&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 1 Chapter: Kelim Chap. 25
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=EA68FDB029BD2ABF231AFA2A1C49961A&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 3 Chapters: Berachot Chapter Four, Berachot Chapter Five, Berachot Chapter Six
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=12EE304A5C225AA045EAB7781D177D52&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Hayom Yom:
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=61F719BE31582B034DBDEC6C026B8D81&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
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