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Sefaria Jewish Calendar Thursday, August 10, 2023 23 Av, 5783

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 Sefaria Jewish Calendar Thursday, August 10, 2023 23 Av, 5783 Torah Reading Re'eh: Deuteronomy 11:26 - 12:10 Daily Study Chumash Parshat Re'eh, 5th Portion (Devarim (Deuteronomy) 14:22-14:29) Psalms Chapters 108-112 Tanya Iggeret HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 7 Rambam 3 Chapters ,  1 Chapter ,  Sefer Hamitzvot Hayom Yom Today's Hayom Yom Daily Thought See From Within See that I am giving to you today a blessing and a curse. (Deuteronomy 11:26) Why “see?” Blessings and curses are not seen. They are heard or understood. Rather, it means to see with a vision that is not swayed by the illusions of physical sensation. It means to see beyond this moment now. Beyond the hard, prickly shell of your pain and sorrows. Beyond your restrictive concept of self. Beyond ego or expectation. See with the spark of G‑d within you and you will discover the spark of divine light within each of your troubles. Look yet deeper, and you will see within every challenge unimaginable blessings. Even th

Sefaria Jewish Calendar Thursday, 2 Av, 5783 July 20, 2023

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 Sefaria Jewish Calendar Thursday, 2 Av, 5783 July 20, 2023 Nine Days Torah Reading Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1-11 Jewish History Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (1942) On the 2nd and 3rd of Av in the year 5702 from creation (1942 CE), more than 13,000 Jews were rounded up by French police and interred in the Vel' d'Hiv, an indoor bicycle stadium in the center of Paris. They were later transported to Auschwitz to be killed. Within days, the Vel' d'Hiv was cleaned up and ready for recreation. R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn Arrives in Israel (1929) In the summer of 1929,  R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn , sixth Rebbe of Chabad, visited the  Land of Israel  (the only Chabad Rebbe to do so—see link below). The stated purpose of the trip was to pray at the gravesites of the righteous individuals interred there. Among the cities he visited during his two-week-long stay were  Jerusalem ,  Safed ,  Meron ,  Tiberias ,  Hebron , and Tel Aviv. The Rebbe departed the Holy Land two days befor