Feb 9, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1601 that all Hebrew documents, manuscripts and books were confiscated by the Catholic Church and burned. This was a feeble attempt to rid the world of what the Church disagreed with. It could be argued that some of the confiscated commentary and...
Feb 9, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me. (Psalm 27:9-10) There is a hint of sadness in David’s words in that he conveyed a sense of feeling totally alone were it not for...
Feb 8, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
On this day in 1939, Adolf Hitler announced his intention to exterminate all Jews in the event of a war. By this time, however, Hitler had already determined there was going to be a war and that he was going to destroy Europe’s Jews. We know that he already had their...
Feb 8, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” Do not hide Your face from me; do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help. (Psalm 27:8-9) We live in a day when communication has become extremely convenient, and...
Feb 7, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1980 that the border between Egypt and Israel was declared open, once again, allowing travelers to follow the ancient “King’s Highway” that connected these two nations. This was a very significant event in the maturing relations between Israel...
Feb 7, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” Do not hide Your face from me; do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help. (Psalm 27:8-9) As expressed in this and many other prayers, David was a person focused...
Feb 6, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
In times past, today was considered a day of fasting in commemoration of the belief that today marked the end of the period of the Elders who were contemporaries of Joshua. These were the people who witnessed the miracles in the wilderness and the crossing over the...
Feb 6, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock. (Psalm 27:5) The Hebrew word translated as “hide” (צפן tzafon) is never used when speaking of something trivial but...
Feb 5, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1930 that the fifth aliyah to the Holy Land began. Perhaps some of you are not familiar with this term, aliyah. It is the Hebrew word that defines immigration to Israel; if someone is going to move to Israel, it is said that they make “aliyah.”...
Feb 5, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. (Psalm 27:4) The desires of men tend to be in a constant state of flux and...
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