Friday Tehillim (7/3/09)
By rachel-esther | July 3, 2009
Tehillim 5:1 For the Leader; upon the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.
Tehillim 5:2 Give ear to my words, O L-rd, consider my meditation.
Tehillim 5:3 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my G-d; for unto You do I pray.
Tehillim 5:4 O L-rd, in the morning shall You hear my voice; in the morning will I order my prayer unto You, and will look forward.
Tehillim 5:5 For You are not a G-d that has pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with You.
Tehillim 5:6 The boasters shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Tehillim 5:7 You destroy them that speak falsehood; the L-rd abhors the man of blood and of deceit.
Tehillim 5:8 But as for me, in the abundance of Your loving kindness will I come into Your house; I will bow down toward Your holy temple in the fear of You.
Tehillim 5:9 O L-rd, lead me in Your righteousness because of them that lie in wait for me; make Your way straight before my face.
Tehillim 5:10 For there is no sincerity in their mouth; their inward part is a yawning gulf, their throat is an open sepulchre; they make smooth their tongue.
Tehillim 5:11 Hold them guilty, O G-d, let them fall by their own counsels; cast them down in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against You.
Tehillim 5:12 So shall all those that take refuge in You rejoice, they shall ever shout for joy, and You shall shelter them; let them also that love Your name exult in You.
Tehillim 5:13 For You do bless the righteous; O L-rd, You do encompass him with favour as with a shield.
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Video Wednesdays - 7/1/09
By rachel-esther | July 1, 2009
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Shabbat - 7/4/09 (12 Tammuz 5769)
By rachel-esther | June 28, 2009
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This week’s reading is — Chukat-Balak (Numbers 19:1-25:9).
Torah Aliyot and Topics
Aliyah 1: Numbers 19:1-20:6
The Red Cow, Miriam’s death and the lack of water, The people protest, G-d commands Moses to bring water
Aliyah 2: Numbers 20:7-21
G-d commands Moses to bring water, Moses and Aaron err and are punished, Asking permission for travel from Edom
Aliyah 3: Numbers 20:22-21:20
Arrival at Mount Hor, Aaron’s death and Elazar’s ascension, Amalek attacks, A new challenge, The song in the Book of the Wars of Hashem
Aliyah 4: Numbers 21:21-22:12
The battle with Sihon, Og does battle, Balaam
Aliyah 5: Numbers 22:13-38
Balaam, G-d’s ambiguous permission, G-d impedes Balaam’s path, Balaam’s she-donkey speaks, Balaam sees the angel, Balak’s rebuke
Aliyah 6: Numbers 22:39-23:26
Balak’s rebuke, Balaam’s altar offerings, Balaam’s first blessing, Balak’s anger, Balaam’s second blessing, Balak’s anger and further request
Aliyah 7: Numbers 23:27-25:9
Balak’s anger and further request, Balaam’s third blessing, Balak’s renewed anger, Balaam’s last prophecy, Baalam’s plot, Phinehas’ zealotry
Maftir: Numbers 25:7-9
Phinehas’ zealotry
For more information about this week’s Parsha, please visit these sites.
Orthodox Union
Chabad
Aish HaTorah
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Union for Reform Judaism
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
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This Week in Jewish History (6/28-7/4)
By rachel-esther | June 28, 2009
June 28:
1941 - 1500 Jews were killed in Kovno
1942 - Minsk, Russia was captured by the Germans, trapping approximately 40,000 Jews
June 29:
1096 - Crusaders massacred the Jews of Mehr, Germany
1941 - Nazis murdered the male Jews of Drobian, Lithuania
1946 - British arrested 100 leaders of the Yishuv on the “Black Sabbath”
June 30:
1294 - The Jewish community of Berne, Switzerland forfeited all financial claims against non-Jews, and then were expelled from the country
1298 - The Jewish community of Morgentheim, Austria was massacred
1922 - The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the Reform movement’s professional organization, meeting in Cape May, N.J., debated a resolution declaring that “women cannot justly be denied the privilege of ordination [as rabbis].”
1927 - Henry Ford retracted and apologized for the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
1948 - The last British armed forces left Israel
July 1:
423bce - The Babylonian armies of King Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls of Jerusalem*
70ce - Titus set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
1388 - Jews of Lithuania received a Charter of Privilege
1776 - The first Jew to lose his life in the American Revolution
1862 - Russian Jews granted permission to print Jewish books
1920 - Sir Herbert Samuel became first British High-Commissioner of Palestine
1941 - Pogrom in Jassy, Romania claimed 5000 Jewish lives
1993 - Anne Lapidus Lerner Named Vice Chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary
2000 - Haviva Ner-David’s book, Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Toward Traditional Rabbinic Ordination, was published
July 2:
1490 - Chumash with Ramban first published
1941 - Nazi-instigated pogrom claimed many Jewish lives in Lvov, Poland
July 3:
1903 - Pogrom in Bialystock, Poland
July 4:
1453 - 41 Jews were burned at the stake in Brelau, Poland and the remainder of the Jewish population was expelled
1632 - The non-Jewish owner of a building used as a shul was burned at the stake
1794 - Catherine II of Russia restricted the area where Jews were permitted to trade
1880 - Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch born*
1946 - Pogrom in Kielce, Poland, first post Nazi massacre of the Jews
1976 - Raid at Entebbe
Sources:
Jewish Women’s Archive
Chabad
Orthodox Union
*Hebrew Calendar Date
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Friday Tehillim (6/26/09)
By rachel-esther | June 26, 2009
Tehillim 4:1 For the Leader; with string-music. A Psalm of David.
Tehillim 4:2 Answer me when I call, O G-d of my righteousness, You who did set me free when I was in distress; be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer.
Tehillim 4:3 O you sons of men, how long shall my glory be put to shame, in that you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah
Tehillim 4:4 But know that the L-rd has set apart the godly man as His own; the L-rd will hear when I call unto Him.
Tehillim 4:5 Tremble, and sin not; commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah
Tehillim 4:6 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the L-rd.
Tehillim 4:7 Many there are that say: ‘Oh that we could see some good!’ L-rd, lift Thou up the light of Your countenance upon us.
Tehillim 4:8 You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their corn and their wine increase.
Tehillim 4:9 In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; for You, L-rd, makes me dwell alone in safety.
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Video Wednesdays - 6/24/09
By rachel-esther | June 24, 2009
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Shabbat - 6/27/09 (5 Tammuz 5769)
By rachel-esther | June 21, 2009
For your local Shabbat Candle-lighting times, please go here.
This week’s reading is — Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32).
Torah Aliyot and Topics
Aliyah 1: Numbers 16:1-13
Rebellion in the Wilderness, Moses summons Dathan and Abiram
Aliyah 2: Numbers 16:14-19
Moses summons Dathan and Abiram
Aliyah 3: Numbers 16:20-17:8
G-d responds, G-d creates a phenomenon, Protest and confirmation
Aliyah 4: Numbers 17:9-15
Moses intervenes again, A new proof of Aaron’s greatness
Aliyah 5: Numbers 17:16-24
A new proof of Aaron’s greatness
Aliyah 6: Numbers 17:25-18:20
A new proof of Aaron’s greatness, The fears remain, Aaron’s duty reiterated, Gifts to the Kohanim
Aliyah 7: Numbers 18:21-32
Tithes to the Levites
Maftir: Numbers 18:30-32
Tithes to the Levites
For more information about this week’s Parsha, please visit these sites.
Orthodox Union
Chabad
Aish HaTorah
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Union for Reform Judaism
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
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This Week in Jewish History (6/21-6/27)
By rachel-esther | June 21, 2009
June 21:
1312bce - Moses dispatched 12 spies to tour the Holy Land*
1498 - Citizens of Nuremberg, Bavaria received permission to expel its Jews
1943 - Himmler ordered the destruction of all Russian ghettos
1948 - The Rhodes Conference on the Israeli-Arab war opened
2004 - Felice Gaer gave a speech entitled “Unlearning Intolerance: Anti-Semitic Incidents Are Not Hooliganism—They Are Human Rights Abuses; The United Nations Should Address Them As Such” at the United Nations Conference on Anti-Semitism
June 22:
1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague was burned and looted
1942 - The Jewish Brigade was formed
June 23:
1562bce - Joseph was born*
1452bce - Joseph died*
1295 - Pope Boniface VIII entered Rome and spurned the Torah scrolls offered to him by the Jewish community
1298 - Massacre of the Jews of Wiener-Neustadt, Austria
1794 - Jews were granted permission by Empress Catherine II to settle in Kiev
1992 - Biochemist Maxine Frank Singer receives National Medal of Science
June 24:
1298 - Massacre of the Jews of Ifhauben, Austria
1322 - Expulsion of Jews from France
1648 - 1000 Jews of Tulchin, Poland were tortured and massacred by Cossacks
1843 - The Inquisitor of Ancona, Italy decreed that Jews may not live in any municipality where there was no ghetto
1873 - First public warning of rising anti-Semitism in the U.S. was given in a sermon by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
1903 - Russia prohibited Zionist meetings
1941 - Germany occupied Kovno and Vilna, Lithuania and killed the Jews of Gorzhdy, Lithuania
June 25:
1273bce - Joshua stops the sun*
1656 - Rabbi Menashe ben Yisrael applied for official permission to practice Judaism in England
1941 - Many Jews were killed in a pogrom at Jassy, Romania
1994 - Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson died*
June 26:
1523 - First printed edition of the Sefer Hachinuch
1629 - Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was imprisoned
1941 - Lithuanian facists massacred 2300 Jews in Kovno
1967 - Spain granted Jews and Protestants the right of public worship for the first time since Ferdinand and Isabella proclaimed Catholicism as Spain’s only religion
June 27:
429bce - Ezekiel had his vision of the chariot*
1918 - The volunteers of the Jewish Battalion in World War I were sent to the front
Sources:
Jewish Women’s Archive
Chabad
Orthodox Union
*Hebrew Calendar Date
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Friday Tehillim (6/19/09)
By rachel-esther | June 19, 2009
Tehillim 3:1 A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
Tehillim 3:2 L-rd, how many are my adversaries become! Many are they that rise up against me.
Tehillim 3:3 Many there are that say of my soul: ‘There is no salvation for him in G-d.’ Selah!
Tehillim 3:4 But you, O L-rd, are a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
Tehillim 3:5 With my voice I call unto the L-rd, and He answers me out of His holy mountain. Selah.
Tehillim 3:6 I lay me down, and I sleep; I awake, for the L-rd sustains me.
Tehillim 3:7 I am not afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Tehillim 3:8 Arise, O L-rd; save me, O my G-d; for You have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek, You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
Tehillim 3:9 Salvation belongs unto the L-rd; Your blessing be upon Your people. Selah.
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Video Wednesdays - 6/17/09
By rachel-esther | June 17, 2009
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