The Mystical Month To Come

2) CALENDAR REMINDERS

1 Iyar (April 18) Torah: Leviticus 12:1-15:33 (Tazria-Metzora); Num. 28:9-15; Haftora: Isaiah 66:1-12, 66:23 (for Rosh Chodesh); Pirkei Avot Chapter 2

2 Iyar (April 19) Tiferet sh'b'tiferet - Birthday of the Rebbe MaHaRash, the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe

5 Iyar (April 22) The 78th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel

8 Iyar (April 25) Shabbat Achrei Mot/Kedoshim -Torah Reading: Leviticus 16:1-20:27; Pirkei Avot - Chapter 3

13 Iyar (April 30) Yahrzeit of Yisroel Aryeh Leib Schneerson (brother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe), buried in Zefat.

14 Iyar (May 1) A biblical Holiday. You don't know which one? Look it up! - Numbers 9:1-14
The Yahrzeit celebrations of the great Mishnaic Sages, Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes (Tiberias) and of Rabbi Yehuda bar Ila'ie (Safed)

15 Iyar (May 2) Shabbat Emor, Torah Reading: Lev. 21:1-24:23, Haftorah: Ezek. 44:15-31; Pirkei Avot - Chapter 4

18 Iyar (May 5) Lag B'Omer, Hod sh'b'hod- the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the seminal kabbalist and sage of the Mishna, buried in Meron, whose mystical teachings are the basis of the Zohar. Also the day on which the plague ceased that took the lives of 24,000 of the students of Rabbi Akiva. A day of great rejoicing and the day of which three year old boys get their first haircut and peyot shaping, preferably at Meron.

22 Iyar (May 9) Shabbat Behar/ Bechukotai, Torah Reading: Lev.25:1-27:34; Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14; Pirkei Avot - Chapter 5; Shabbat Mevarchim (Blessing the New Month)

28 Iyar (May 15) "Day of Jerusalem", the liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967

MAY YOU HAVE A HEALING MONTH OF IYAR!