Oct 26, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 444 B.C.E. that Ezra and Nehemiah convened the Jewish community in Jerusalem in order to purge a contingent of pagan strangers from their midst, and to renew the ancient covenant. This is recorded in Nehemiah 9:1-2: “Now on the...
Oct 26, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. (Psalm 12:6) In sharp contrast to the words of those with wicked motives — words that are worthless and unreliable — the sayings of God are free of...
Oct 25, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today, the 23rd day of Tishri, is called Simchat Torah or “Rejoicing in the Torah.” Today marks the end of the yearlong Torah reading cycle. In synagogues, our Jewish friends will reverently roll the Torah scroll all the way back to its beginning, to the book of...
Oct 25, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things, who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over...
Oct 24, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today, the 22nd day of Tishri, is called Shemini Atzeret (the Eighth Day). Traditionally, it was on this day that Moses received the message that he was soon to die and that he would not enter into Canaan. This was greatly disappointing to Moses who, on more than one...
Oct 24, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. (Psalm 12:1) The word translated as “help” would be better rendered as “save.” The Hebrew word הושיע hoshia denotes the need to be rescued from certain peril, thus the use of...
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