TODAY IN JUDAISM: Shabbat, May 26, 2012

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Sivan 5, 5772 * May 26, 2012

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

Today is: Shabbat, Sivan 5, 5772
Omer: Day 49 - Malchut sheb'Malchut

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Today's Laws & Customs
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· Ethics of the Fathers: Chapter 6

In preparation for the festival of Shavuot [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=793668F7726F5AA280AD00546F8236E5&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 Shabbat being the Shabbat before Shhavuot, we study Chapter Six. (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 6 [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=D56CF6F1C28DA1544CA01071DD7F076D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]

· All-Night Learning

The Talmud relates that when G-d came to give the Torah to the People of Israel in the early morning of Sivan 6 (see "Today in Jewish History [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=757AA74A71DACF6B30FAC25984FCFC5C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]" for tomorrow), He found them sleeping. (The Chassidic masters explain that this was an attempt to connect to their subconscious, transcendent self in preparation for their reception of the divine wisdom.) To rectify this lapse, we spend the entire first night of Shavuot (which begins at nightfall tonight) studying Torah. The traditional Tikkun Leil Shavout ("Rectification for Shavuot Night") study program includes the opening and closing verses of each book of the Written Torah (Tanach), as well as of each Parshah; the entire Book of Ruth (see "Laws and Customs [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=284857375EE0543CF76574A946BA944D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]" for tomorrow); the opening and closing sections of each tractate of the Talmud; a list of the 613 mitzvot; and selected readings from the Zohar and other Kabbalistic works.

· More on Shavuot

Visit our Shavuot megasite [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=96F63A3C23C1088E97D9EFAF0C1ED9A0&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]

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Today in Jewish History
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· Reuben Finds Mandrakes (1568 BCE)

The incident involving the mandrakes (dudaim) which Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob, found in the field "during the time of the wheat harvest"--recounted in Genesis 30:14-18 [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=67E8419D1FB7000D85EB4BF54C793536&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]--occurred on the fifth of Sivan of the year 2197 from creation (1568 BCE).

· Jews Accept Torah (1313 BCE)

On this day, Moses made a covenant with the Jewish people at the foot of Mount Sinai at which the people declared, "All that G-d has spoken, we shall do and hear" (Exodus 24:7) committing themselves to observe the Torah's commandments ("do") and strive to comprehend them ("hear"), while pledging to "do" also before they "hear."

Links:
A Jew in a Jeep [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=3C3ECCD0F96BAA0A7FFA086EBABA13D7&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
Reasoning the Stone [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=9C367759990D6FDD88A47D6891F52A59&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
Spiritual Modality for Behavior Modification [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=90614C192E74A163DE12B9705C78C372&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
An Easy Life [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=E1B8A5ED06F31DFFB091A0829119CC03&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]

· Rabbis Burnt at Stake (1728)

On this day Rabbis Chayim and Yehoshua Reitzes were tortured and burned in Lvov, Poland after they were accused of having attempted to convince an apostate to return to Judaism.

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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:

Chumash: Bamidbar, 7th Portion Numbers 4:1-4:20 with Rashi
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=34DE3DE2474327725F378990158537CD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Video Class:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C83641513292092C712618D91370CCF4&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tehillim: Chapters 29 - 34
· Hebrew text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6606C5E1C03C8D3A54E5734A61FEFD61&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· English text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=14977B4FD5BF5E94560D485BAB654E9E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tanya: Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, middle of Introduction
· Lesson in Tanya:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=16F1783AE5A847187AB0D327012640DC&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Hebrew Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=5646CED296285E63FBB0C11E3B8240CF&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Tanya Audio Class:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A1FCCCA9AF44E3F61F839736B9B19821&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Live Video Class:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=4200EAC8F73F86A493AA11D30C251FAE&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Rambam:
· Sefer Hamitzvos:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=E67C7378CD6B0A91682A9C1068CCCA6A&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 1 Chapter: Tefillin, Mezuzah, v'Sefer Torah Chapter Eight
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=001C4FD2D2A0B9478D195E59130633C5&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 3 Chapters: Naarah Besulah Chapter One, Naarah Besulah Chapter Two, Naarah Besulah Chapter Three
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=C553C66EF914E23D7D73EB288DF92615&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Hayom Yom:
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=608FA5EFAD0664BBA30C6976BD0B7BB2&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

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