2) CALENDAR
REMINDERS
1 Tammuz (June 30) -- Second Day Rosh Chodesh Tammuz -- Official
beginning of Summer at ASCENT!!
3 Tammuz (July 1-2) Shabbat Chukat (outside of Israel parshat
Korach) --Torah Reading: Numbers 19:1-22:1; Haftorah: Judges 11:1-23.
Twenty-Eight anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
10 Tammuz (July 8-9) --Shabbat Balak (outside of Israel Chukat),
Torah Reading: Numbers 22:2-25:9; Haftorah: Michah 5:6-6:8
12-13 Tammuz (July 11-12) Celebration of the miraculous delivery
from death, imprisonment and exile of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe
17 Tammuz (July 15-16) -- Shabbat Pinchas, (outside of Israel
Balak) --Torah Reading: Numbers 25:10-30:1; Haftorah: Kings I 18:46
- 19:21.
18 Tammuz (July 17) - (Postponed from Shabbat) Fast day commemorating
the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem and the beginning of the period
of mourning over the destruction of the Temple, called "Bein
HaMetzarim" or "The three weeks". An appropriate time
for the learning of the laws concerning the building of the Temple,
in anticipation of the imminent Redemption.
23 Tammuz (July 22) -- The Yahrzeit of the Ramak, Rabbi Moshe
Cordevero (1522-1570) the leader of the Kabbalists of Safed until
his death within a year after the arrival of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria
(the "Ari").
24 Tammuz (July 22-23) -- Shabbat Mattot, (outside of Israel
Pinchas) Shabbat Mevarchim, (blessing of the New
Month) --Torah Reading: Num.30:2-32:42; Haftorah: Jeremiah 1:1-2:3,
the first of the three "Haftorot of Affliction"
29 Tammuz (July 28) -- Erev Rosh Chodesh Av
3) For Ascent Seminars & Shabbatons go to http://www.myascent.org/
HAVE A HEALTHY AND CONSTRUCTIVE MONTH OF TAMMUZ!!
