Mar 4, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 68 A.D. that the Roman commander, and soon to be Emperor Vespasian, occupied the city of Gedara on his march though the Galilee. This is recorded by the historian Flavius Josephus who said: “Vespasian marched to the city of Gadara,...
Mar 4, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men! (Psalm 31:19) There is a belief within Judaism that says God rewards the righteous, in this world and...
Mar 3, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1949 that the first permanent government of the State of Israel assumed office. Ironically or not, this was also the same day that the security council recommended Israel’s admission into the United Nations. Though it was, indeed, the first...
Mar 3, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. Make Your face shine upon Your servant; save me for Your mercies’ sake. (Psalm 31:14-16) In spite of...
Mar 2, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 553 A.D. that Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire issued an order that provided for the public reading of the Greek translation of the biblical portion, or the Torah portion, that was being read in Jewish synagogues each Sabbath....
Mar 2, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eye wastes away with grief, yes, my soul and my body! For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. I am a reproach among all my enemies,...
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