Oct 6, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) We don’t know exactly what night it was that David stared up at...
Oct 5, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day that Gedaliah ben Ahikam, governor of Judah after the destruction of the first Temple, was assassinated by other Jews at Mizpah (2 Kings 25:22-25). To commemorate this assassination and the dispersal of the Jewish remnant still left in the land of...
Oct 5, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) Why does David not mention the sun along with the moon and stars?...
Oct 4, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is considered by Judaism to be the second day of Yom Teruah (a.k.a. Rosh Hashanah or “head of the year.”). And so on this day, the story of the akedah or “the binding” of Isaac, found in Genesis 22:9-10, is read in the synagogue. “Then they came...
Oct 4, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. (Psalm 8:2) Throughout history, the wicked of this world have demonstrated their displeasure at the overwhelming evidence...
Oct 3, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is Yom Teruah (a.k.a. Rosh Hashana) or the Feast of Trumpets. According to tradition, there are several key events in history that happened on this day. For starters, tradition says that the creation of Adam and Eve occurred on this day. It’s also believed,...
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