TODAY IN JUDAISM: Monday, May 14, 2012

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Iyar 22, 5772 * May 14, 2012

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

Today is: Monday, Iyar 22, 5772
Omer: Day 37 - Gevurah sheb'Yesod

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

Tomorrow is the thirty-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 thirty-eight days, which are five weeks and three 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=2FDB64C19255B299154A8DA01CE7B17E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.

Tonight's Sefirah: Tifferet sheb'Yesod -- "Harmony in Connection"

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=A417151EC871D3C8360EBC96DE960AB7&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
The deeper significance [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=184926DD39B81D89EC89D2976E3DFF7B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] of the Omer Count

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Today in Jewish History
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· Shabbat Commanded (1313 BCE)

Following the descent of the manna (the miraculous "Bread from Heaven" that sustained the Israelites in the desert), G-d commanded the Children of Israel to keep the Shabbat. This Shabbat was the 22nd of Iyar, of the year 2448 from Creation (1313 BCE) (see "Today in Jewish History [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=707BFFBA979370135D338242AE5A8127&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]" for Iyar 15).

On that Friday morning, enough manna fell for two days' worth of meals, as on the Shabbat it would be prohibited to gather the manna. The "Two Loaves" of challah bread (Lechem Mishneh) that form the foundation of our Shabbat meal are in commemoration of the double portion of manna.

Links:
A Brief History of Shabbat [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8E11101E7892F444CCD3C07627BC55AD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
Shabbat: an island in time [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=0C67A063D6E953A1146D504BF32D0B94&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
The Manna [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1610C455CA8637CCD97AF7C9916126C1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]

· Jewish Books Confiscated (1731)

Giovanni Antonio Costanzi, the Vatican librarian and author of a catalogue of the Vatican's Hebrew manuscripts, directed searches in all the Jewish quarters throughout the Papal States to confiscate Jewish holy books. The confiscation begun on the 22nd Iyar in 1731. More confiscations continued over the next twenty years.

· Hungarian Jews Deported (1944)

Two months after the Nazi occupation of Hungary, where the Jewish population prior to WWII was 725,000, the Nazis began deportation of the Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Eichmann personally oversaw the following day the start of the extermination process. Eight days later an estimated 100,000 had been murdered.

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Daily Quote
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"Love your fellow as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18). Said Rabbi Akiva: This is a great principle in the Torah

- Torat Kohanim 4:12


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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:

Chumash: Behar-Bechukotai, 2nd Portion Leviticus 25:19-25:28 with Rashi
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=7C8AA4949A68EBB40E9F33A1A509760D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Video Class:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C0FC405CBF618961B51EEBAE8C6AE6DA&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tehillim: Chapters 106 - 107
· Hebrew text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=FDECCDCAB634D5EC579EC035E519056D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· English text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6F1C2C8E0290D83F85442C32C032D333&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tanya: Likutei Amarim, end of Chapter 50
· Lesson in Tanya:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=3B4B91FD650AE471056DCDFD5742D083&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Hebrew Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=DA8D5382333FA894E53554EF89209C25&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Tanya Audio Class:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=550F358508435BC70A7BA31C28E732B4&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
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http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=24A67A0AE0BC4B2927F0C29F57259CDB&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Rambam:
· Sefer Hamitzvos:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=FFAAD1A18F2AB86781192710EC8326D0&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 1 Chapter: Tefilah and Birkat Kohanim Chapter Eleven
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F3C9885907617B92F77714E3C56A0093&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Eleven, Ishut Chapter Twelve, Ishut Chapter Thirteen
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C2EB799E23F97D42BCF70DEFE4D0D04D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Hayom Yom:
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1CBD3F72BE0A317775BA58F27F12528C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

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