Sep 29, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
This day commemorates the second day of Creation. As in our previous installment, there is no way to know for certain if this is accurate or not, but assuming it is, let’s look at what happened on the second day of creation: Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in...
Sep 29, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded! (Psalm 7:6) When one considers all the psalms said to be written by David and then observe how many times he prayed for God to act...
Sep 28, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Judaism believes it was on this day, the 25th of Elul, that Creation began. This belief is based on another tradition which assigns the day that Adam was created on as the first day of Tishri, also known as Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets). The Bible tells us that...
Sep 28, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; save me from all those who persecute me; and deliver me, lest they tear me like a lion, rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. (Psalm 7:1-2) Reading through the psalms ascribed to David, it doesn’t take long...
Sep 27, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 520 B.C., that Zerubbabel and the people of Judea began to clear the Temple site in preparation of construction of the Second Temple. We can read about this in the book of Haggai: “So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of...
Sep 27, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. (Psalm 6:6-8) According to Jewish...
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