TODAY IN JUDAISM: Monday, May 16, 2011

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Iyar 12, 5771 * May 16, 2011

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Today is: Monday, Iyar 12, 5771
Omer: Day 27 - Yesod sheb'Netzach

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Today's Laws & Customs
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· Count "Twenty-Eight Days to the Omer" Tonight

Tomorrow is the twenty-eighth 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 twenty-eight days, which are four weeks, 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=6B83F07E6BCFA5A4D4BA79A4732AE1B9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.

Tonight's Sefirah: Malchut sheb'Netzach -- "Receptiveness in Ambition"

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=95D255ADE02DF0D60DE29F7253DB81C8&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
The deeper significance [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=51BA7F68B9491FF69E7549D2E2D1AFEF&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] of the Omer Count

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Today in Jewish History
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· Roman Jews Granted Privileges (1402)

On the 12th of Iyar, 1402, the Jews of Rome were granted "privileges" by Pope Boniface IX. They were given legal right to observe their Shabbat [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=AE5D155FE4E934ADEF7EF5037DBFC56C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], protection from local oppressive officials, their taxes were reduced and orders were given to treat Jews as full-fledged Roman citizens.

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Daily Quote
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If there be a prophet among you, I, G-d, make myself known to him in a vision, and speak to him in a dream. Not so My servant Moses; for he is the trusted one in all My house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, manifestly, and not in riddles; and the similitude of G-d does he behold. Why, then, were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

- Numbers 12:6-8

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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:

Chumash: Bechukotai, 2nd Portion Leviticus 26:6-26:9 with Rashi
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A2E053A095C3747D2A0BF3796A5CFC12&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tehillim: Chapters 66 - 68
· Hebrew text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1CACFC0CCC0550D5CB7FA0318DC0C5BF&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· English text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=9A601DF8DC9C79EC1867CE8F5FDEA7DC&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tanya: Likutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 48
· Lesson in Tanya:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=99B5CF70A42225D1CF4252485E151F7C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
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Rambam:
· Sefer Hamitzvos:
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· 1 Chapter: Hilchot Nizkei Mammon Chapter Two
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=4072FFB1343FF21224E03647FFB5DC42&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 3 Chapters: Eruvin Chapter Three, Eruvin Chapter Four, Eruvin Chapter Five
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=3899A434AD36F40DB3D137030784E289&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Hayom Yom:
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F0609CA1F8DFC445D51FC0DB937612E1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

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