TODAY IN JUDAISM: Friday, April 27, 2012

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Iyar 5, 5772 * April 27, 2012

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* Laws * Customs * Jewish History * Daily Quote * Daily Study *

Today is: Friday, Iyar 5, 5772
Omer: Day 20 - Yesod sheb'Tifferet

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Today's Laws & Customs
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· Preparation for Shavuot Begins

“The Sages of old instituted, yet in the times of the Holy Temple, that thirty days before the onset of a holiday the teachers should begin publicly instructing the masses regarding the laws of the holiday; e.g. from Purim and onwards to teach the laws of Passover, and from the 5th of Iyar and onwards to teach the laws of Shavuot” (Shulchan Aruch Harav 429:1).

· Count "Twenty-One Days to the Omer" Tonight

Tomorrow is the twenty-first 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-one days, which are three 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=602F06EF63C0609BE240D6B9DC97E07F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.

Tonight's Sefirah: Malchut sheb'Tifferet -- "Receptiveness in Harmony"

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=94045E5D8557D3541FEDBF3A5F1221B2&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
The deeper significance [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8BA6A283FED833072B91C3D33F5DF803&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] of the Omer Count

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Today in Jewish History
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· State of Israel Proclaimed (1948)

The British mandate to govern the Holy Land expired on Friday, May 14, 1948. A United Nations resolution passed six months earlier endorsed the establishment of a Jewish state in the biblical homeland of the Jewish people. That afternoon, the state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. The date -- Iyar 5 on the Jewish calendar -- is celebrated in Israel as the Israeli "Independence Day."

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Daily Quote
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Say little and do much

- Ethics of the Fathers 1:15


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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:

Chumash: Tazria-Metzora, 6th Portion Leviticus 14:33-15:15 with Rashi
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=86541FACEF75BCA21D635135ACB07628&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
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Tehillim: Chapters 29 - 34
· Hebrew text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1983C0035A79AF2BD55D722FB1E58F7F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· English text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=FBB779EA32F369586BFB94A0EE012B50&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tanya: Likutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 44
· Lesson in Tanya:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=261C8B2E9B2E12AFC58C69C5337F6B4D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Hebrew Text:
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Rambam:
· Sefer Hamitzvos:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6493F5E2AA1C15E017BBC3048B5949F9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 1 Chapter: Teshuvah Chapter Eight
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1BA7A81F5BF1FFA3F728AA6DA54BE410&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 3 Chapters: Chometz U'Matzah Chapter Eight, Chometz U'Matzah Text of The Haggadah, Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter One, Shofar, Sukkah, vLulav Chapter Two
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=416186EE70FEE0940A47DE680964DDAD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Hayom Yom:
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CA3C97AE4A944D6771C5EF05F58F2208&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

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