Daily Bread — Sunday, March 3, 2024
Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lord your God ... but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lord which He did. (Deuteronomy 11:2, 7) There is a huge difference in hearing about...
Daily Bread — Saturday, March 2, 2024
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. (Deuteronomy 10:17-18)...
Daily Bread — Friday, March 1, 2024
Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. (Deuteronomy 10:16) I'll admit that, on the surface, circumcision doesn't seem to be a proper topic to meditate upon as we start our day. However, there is something all of us can learn...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, February 28, 2024
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, February 27, 2024
As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. Then the Lord said to me, “Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land...
Daily Bread — Monday, February 26, 2024
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day. Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his...
Daily Bread — Sunday, February 25, 2024
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day. Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his...
15 Adar – For Zion’s Sake
It was on this day in the year 1790 that the first advertisement, offering private Hebrew instruction in an American publication, appeared in The Pennsylvania Packet, placed there by Abraham Cohen. In those days, there were no organized Hebrew schools and so the...
Daily Bread — Saturday, February 24, 2024
At that time the Lord said to me, “Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood. And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put...
14 Adar – Circumcised Hearts
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses was circumcised in Egypt. His circumcision would have occurred in a very troubling time for Hebrew parents who saw the birth of a male child, considering that Pharaoh had ordered their deaths. Later, Moses would be...
Daily Bread — Friday, February 23, 2024
And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. (Deuteronomy 9:16) Even as Moses was receiving the tablets of the covenant, the people...
Daily Bread — Thursday, February 22, 2024
Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. (Deuteronomy 9:6) Once again we have a verse to remind us that, in spite of our continued stubbornness and...
