Sep 12, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1267, that Moses Ben Nahman, better known as the sage Nachmanides, arrived in Jerusalem to establish a Jewish community there. After the defeat of the Bar Kohkba rebellion in 135 AD, the Romans completely destroyed Jerusalem and built a smaller...
Sep 12, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
I will declare the decree: the Lord has said to Me, “You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them...
Sep 11, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in the year 70 AD, that the walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by the Romans, thus completing the conquest of Jerusalem and Judea. On that day, all Jewish resistance to the Romans came to an end. In this event, we see the...
Sep 11, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion. (Psalm 2:6) In the beginning, when man first fell, the Creator declared that there would come a Redeemer, the Seed of the Woman, who would destroy the Adversary, his seed and their rebellion. Since that time, the...
Sep 10, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to Jewish tradition, it was on this day that Amram married Jochebed, a union that led to the birth of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. As we know, Moses was born during a very dangerous and oppressive time if you were a Hebrew male. The king of Egypt had decreed all...
Sep 10, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure. (Psalm 2:4-5) In contrast to the kings of the earth who “set themselves” (or stand if you will), against...
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