Oct 21, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3) In the midst of his complaint about the wicked and their constant aggression toward the righteous, David asks the question above — “What will the righteous do if the foundations are...
Oct 20, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is traditionally the day that the patriarch, Jacob, died. It is recorded in Genesis 49:29 & 33: “Then he charged them and said to them: ‘I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,’...
Oct 20, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
In the Lord I put my trust; how can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”? (Psalm 11:1) Jewish writers are of the opinion that David wrote this psalm as a result of being hunted by Saul. Once during his time as a fugitive, he was forced to leave Israel...
Oct 19, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1886 that David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, was born. It was he who, on May 14, 1948, pronounced that, after 2,000 years, the state of Israel was to be reborn. Later that evening, at midnight on May 15, 1948, the British...
Oct 19, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
His ways are always prospering; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he sneers at them. He has said in his heart, “I shall not be moved; I shall never be in adversity.” (Psalm 10:5-6) Assuming that David is the author of this psalm,...
Oct 18, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today, the 16th day of Tishri, is the second day of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). It was on this day in the year 539 B.C. that King Cyrus of Persia captured the city of Babylon, thus bringing an end to the once great Empire of Nebuchadnezzar. Many verses of Scripture...
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