Haman died 19 May 2024
see article in Jerusalem POst
Fateful flight and wings of retribution: Was it an accident or a strateg - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-n...cle-801767
'We won't shed a tear': Israeli MKs react coldly to Raisi's death, as government mum | The Times of Israel
of course his legacy of hatred continues.....
Omer: Day 26 - Hod sheb'Netzach
Tonight Count 27
Jewish History
Jewish Books Confiscated (1510)
1,500 Jewish books were confiscated in Frankfurt am Main, Germany at the instigation of an apostate (Meshumad) on the 11th of Iyar.
Riots in Wasilkow and Konotop (1881)
Anti Jewish riots (pogroms) continue to escalate in Russia and break out on the 11th of Iyar in Waslikow and Konotop. The Jews were blamed for the assassination of Czar Alexander II, who was assassinated by revolutionaries. The riots continued for three years across the entire Russia.
The Battle at Deganya (1948)
The Israeli Army defeated the advancing Syrian Army, following the shelling at the entrance of Deganya, which began at sunrise and lasted nine hours. It is considered the first Israeli victory following the start of the War of Independence.
Passing of R. Naftali of Ropshitz (1827)
R. Naftali of Ropshitz, a leading disciple of R. Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz, the “Seer of Lublin,” was one of the prominent Rebbes in Galicia during the early nineteenth century. He passed away on 11 Iyar 5587 (1827).
Link: Resistance
Laws and Customs
Count "Twenty-Seven Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the twenty-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 twenty-seven days, which are three weeks and six 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, the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
Tonight's Sefirah: Yesod sheb'Netzach -- "Connection in Ambition"
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
The deeper significance of the Omer Count
Daily Study
Chumash Parshat Behar, 1st Portion (Vayikra (Leviticus) 25:1-25:13)
Psalms Chapters 60-65
Tanya Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 48
Rambam 3 Chapters, 1 Chapter, Sefer Hamitzvot
Hayom Yom Today's Hayom Yom
Daily Thought
Cosmic Fractals
It is a wondrous feature of the cosmos, how ideas repeat themselves at vastly different scales: As planets and stars move in grand systems about their orbits, so electrons move about a nucleus. So too the same pattern is found within the microcosm of the human being—and at every scale of every thing, from every frame of reference.
At each level there is a wholeness and a oneness, and yet each breaks down into yet more minute particles creating yet another realm of wholeness—and we have yet to find its end.
A perfect harmony of oneness from which comes an infinitude of beings. The Artist has left His signature within His masterpiece; His imprint within each and every detail.
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day...=5/19/2024
