Our Daily Bread — Friday, January 21, 2021
Good Morning. Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. (Genesis 2:1-2) The Hebrew word translated as...
8 Shevat — Teach Your Children Diligently
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...
Our Daily Bread — Thursday, January 21, 2021
Good Morning. “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31) On most other days in the Creation account we read that God saw “that it was good” but on the sixth day, “it was...
7 Shevat — Making Aliyah
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.”...
Our Daily Bread — Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Good Morning. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply…” (Genesis 1:27-28) From the beginning God intended that mankind was to...
6 Shevat — Let Him Vindicate You
What do you do when someone says something negative about you, publicly? It might be true or it might not be true. It might be something that happened a long time ago. Regardless of the situation, someone - maybe another believer - discloses something about you for...
Our Daily Bread — Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Good Morning. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis...
5 Shevat — All Tribes Will Serve The King
Counting from the month of Aviv in the spring, Shevat is the eleventh month and is mentioned by name in in Zechariah 1:7. The name, “Shevat,” has some interesting connotations. The root word means “to control” or “to rule” and is often translated in the Bible as...
Our Daily Bread — Monday, January 18, 2021
Good Morning. Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind” and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according...
4 Shevat — Everything Has A Season
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3)...
Our Daily Bread — Sunday, January 17, 2021
Good Morning. Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters...
3 Shevat — He Never Sleeps Nor Slumbers
It was on this day in 1933 that Adolph Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany. Ironically, on the same day and in the same city where Hitler was appointed as German Chancellor, the Society for Youth Aliyah was established. Over time, this group would be...