TODAY IN JUDAISM: Sunday, May 13, 2012

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Iyar 21, 5772 * May 13, 2012

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Today is: Sunday, Iyar 21, 5772
Omer: Day 36 - Chessed sheb'Yesod

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

Tomorrow is the thirty-seventh 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-seven days, which are five weeks and two 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=0D236318744CEFBACB84B8A47612D6F1&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ], the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.

Tonight's Sefirah: Gevurah sheb'Yesod -- "Restraint 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=0278BCCDEC0435287531D97E93A6D888&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]
The deeper significance [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=9AB0E3B401DA1EEF9377A4F3B0E2B2BF&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] of the Omer Count

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Today in Jewish History
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· Frank Hanged in Prague (1946)

Karl Hermann Frank, the German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia during World War II, was hanged on this date in 1946.

Frank surrendered to the American army on May 9, 1945 and was extradited and tried in a court in Prague. Following his conviction for war crimes, Frank was sentenced to death and hanged in the courtyard of the Pankrac prison in Prague as 5,000 onlookers witnessed his death.

· Kfar Chabad Established (1949)

The Chabad-Lubavitch village in Israel, Kfar Chabad, was founded by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, on Iyar 21 of 1949. The first settlers were mostly recent immigrants from the Soviet Union, survivors of the terrors of World War II and Stalinist oppression. Kfar Chabad, which is located about five miles south of Tel Aviv and includes agricultural lands as well as numerous educational institutions, serves as the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement in the Holy Land.

Link: The Rebbe Who Saved a Village [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=718F9893D46D178826D6A969ABB7D160&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ]

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Daily Quote
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And Moses returned to Gâ€'d and said: “I beseech You: this nation has sinned a great sin, and have made themselves a god of gold. Now, if You will forgive their sinâ€"; and if You will not, erase me from the book that You have written.”

- Exodus 32:31â€"32


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Daily Study
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Chitas and Rambam for today:

Chumash: Behar-Bechukotai, 1st Portion Leviticus 25:1-25:18 with Rashi
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=EB917B0D41ECA919F191E18997F92D8C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· Video Class:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=628CD1BD9EEBFE85481927E3FBCBB539&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tehillim: Chapters 104 - 105
· Hebrew text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6367F56427E39F5955162629FFE402F5&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· English text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=618D3D9C9CB035BA0D26D1DCB170983C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 50
· Lesson in Tanya:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=31BBA5CC48CE0A698562756A1C55F4A7&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
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Rambam:
· Sefer Hamitzvos:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=A6C8BAF42B6F938329A2EC7D9031984E&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 1 Chapter: Tefilah and Birkat Kohanim Chapter Ten
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=118A53347401C72AE6793ED3F0E0A534&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2
· 3 Chapters: Ishut Chapter Eight, Ishut Chapter Nine, Ishut Chapter Ten
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=1C31F2653E7C7F689954FBBFB3F4CDA9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

Hayom Yom:
· English Text:
http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=88F0E60B7DA2D1C7DEBF2550EB79227D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2

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