Sep 6, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1942, that the first news of Nazi mass exterminations reached the outside world. The news came as a result of a group Polish women, exchanged for some German prisoners, arrived in British Palestine. This disturbing news would continue to...
Sep 6, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. (Psalm 1:4-5) This statement is made in contrast with the man whose fruit is abundant...
Sep 5, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1553, that Pope Julius III ordered the confiscation and destruction of the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds. Pope Julius felt these works contained derogatory and anti-Christian remarks and should be destroyed. On the other hand, Judaism takes...
Sep 5, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. (Psalm 1:3) The Hebrew word translated as rivers or streams of water comes from a root word that...
Sep 4, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Jewish tradition believes it was on this day that the third biblical plague descended upon Egypt. What make this particular plague so interesting is, after this, God set a division between Israel and Egypt, thus protecting God’s people from the suffering the ensuing...
Sep 4, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. (Psalm 1:3) In Jewish commentary, there is a notion that the Hebrew word translated as planted...
Sep 3, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1943 that, the sixth Zionist Congress convened in Basel, Switzerland. This would be the last Congress presided over by Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism. During this particular Congress, split among delegates developed over a British...
Sep 3, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. (Psalm 1:3) I’ve always found it interesting that, in the Bible, men are often likened to...
Sep 2, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Jewish tradition believes it was on this day that Moses was instructed to hew two stones for the tablets of the law. The first set of tablets, hewn by the finger of God, were broken as a consequence of the Golden Calf incident. Later, Moses was instructed to hew two...
Sep 2, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:1-2) As we shared in the previous...
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