CALENDAR REMINDERS
1 Tamuz (July 4) -- Second Day Rosh Chodesh Tamuz --
Official beginning of Summer at ASCENT!!
3 Tamuz (July 5-6) Shabbat Chukat (outside of Israel
parshat Korach) --Torah Reading: Numbers 19:1-22:1; Haftorah: Judges
11:1-23.
Twenty-fifth anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
10 Tamuz (July 12-13) --Shabbat Balak (outside of Israel
Chukat), Torah Reading: Numbers 22:2-25:9; Haftorah: Michah 5:6-6:8
12-13 Tamuz (July 15-16) Celebration of the miraculous delivery
from death, imprisonment and exile of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe
17 Tamuz (July 19-20) -- Shabbat Pinchas, (outside of
Israel Balak) --Torah Reading: Numbers 25:10-30:1; Haftorah: Kings
I 18:46 - 19:21.
18 Tamuz (July 21) - (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 Tamuz (July 26 -- 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 Tamuz (July 26-27) -- 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 Tamuz (Aug.1) -- Erev Rosh Chodesh Av
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MAY YOU HAVE A HEALTHY AND CONSTRUCTIVE MONTH OF TAMUZ!
