B"H
Nissan 27, 5771 * May 1, 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: Sunday, Nissan 27, 5771
Omer: Day 12 - Hod sheb'Gevurah
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Today's Laws & Customs
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· Count "Thirteen Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the thirteenth 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 thirteen days, which are one week and six 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=31E1A461D28EC95066A4735A7900AFF1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
Tonight's Sefirah: Yesod sheb'Gevurah -- "Connection 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=3123AC606C122488B15FA0D59BF00408&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
The deeper significance [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A29D990425737E27367D46977EA85B61&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] of the Omer Count
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Today in Jewish History
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· Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943)
In the summer of 1942, about 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka. When reports of the mass murder in the killing center leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, an organized resistance began forming, which managed to smuggle a modest chache of arms into the ghetto. On the 14th of Nissan of 1943, the remaining 35,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (from an original 450,000) staged an organized uprising, and drove back the Nazis with a rain of bullets when they came to begin the final removal of all Jews. The Jewish resistance lasted 27 days. A heroic stand was made in an underground bunker under 18 Mila Street, where hundreds of fighters, including the 24-year-old leader of the uprising, Mordechai Anilevitch, met their death. Although the Ghetto was burned to the ground by Iyar 3, a few stray survivors hid in the rubble and fired at the Nazis for two months longer.
In tribute to the uprising, the Israeli government designated the 27th of Nissan as its official "Holocaust and Bravery Day," and in many Jewish communities the day is observed as an annual Holocaust [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=AD36A7451340982200C174688A435379&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] remembrance day. But because of the halachic prohibition to conduct eulogies and other mournful events in the festive month of Nissan, the chief rabbinate of Israel, and many Jewish communities, observe instead the 10th of Tevet [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=89BD2F60916784BA6D24F46CF785393C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] as a day to mourn and remember the six million, which include many whose yahrtzeit (date of passing) remains unknown.
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Daily Quote
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Our Sages greatly extolled the virtue of charity, declaring it equal to all the other mitzvot together; throughout the Jerusalem Talmud, charity is called simply "The Mitzvah"... Because in all other mitzvot, only one faculty of the vital soul is invested in the action, and only while the mitzvah is being performed. In the case of charity, however, which one gives from the proceeds of the toil of his hands, all the energy of his vital soul is invested in the effort of his labor, or in any other occupation by which he earned this money. Thus, when he gives to charity this money, his entire vital soul ascends to G d with this action. Also, even one who does not earn his livelihood from his labors, nevertheless, since he could have purchased with this money his life's sustenance, he is actually giving his soulâ?Ts life to G d...
- Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (Tanya ch. 37)
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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Emor, 1st Portion Leviticus 21:1-21:15 with Rashi
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D3414D0F13AA3C5974EA8A78850D994E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Tehillim: Chapters 120 - 134
· Hebrew text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=419B64DCBBA1BE660CDEB7C73FC9D0F5&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· English text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C829797C380B97A917E6BD37BA24A300&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, end of Chapter 43
· Lesson in Tanya:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8412DCE0937A70CFAB86B1674B074693&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
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Rambam:
· Sefer Hamitzvos:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=5F5DB5F4B23FCD82FA312BB7A55148DD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 1 Chapter: Kelim Chap. 26
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=09FA779068D652999C08789789C8A4F8&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 3 Chapters: Berachot Chapter Seven, Berachot Chapter Eight, Berachot Chapter Nine
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Hayom Yom:
· English Text:
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