20 Aviv — The One and Only Path
According to Jewish tradition, it was on this day that Pharaoh, thinking that the wilderness had shut them in, caught up with the Hebrews while they were encamped at Pi Hahiroth - “the mouth of the gorges.” Israel came to be at this place because, as they were leaving...
Daily Bread — Sunday, April 28, 2024
The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor...
19 Aviv — God Can Even Use the Enemy
It was on this day that, having learned of their flight the previous day, Pharaoh began his pursuit of Israel into the wilderness. Ironically, on this same date over 3500 years later, on April 20, 1889, another tyrant, Adolph Hitler was born. As we go through these...
Daily Bread — Saturday, April 27, 2024
You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you. (Deuteronomy 18:13-14) As mentioned in the previous devotion, the...
18 Aviv — God Is A Good General
According to tradition, it was on this day that Pharaoh was informed that the Hebrews were escaping, and soon after, he began his pursuit. “Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against...
Daily Bread — Friday, April 26, 2024
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls...
17 Aviv — Come in to the Ark
According to some traditions and interpretations of Scripture, this is the day that Noah’s ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, as recorded in Genesis 8: “Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of...
Daily Bread — Thursday, April 25, 2024
The priests and the Levites shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His portion. Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance. (Deuteronomy 18:1-2) It is...
16 Aviv — A Mighty Man of Valor
According to tradition, it was on this day that the angel of the Lord commanded Gideon to attack the Midianites as recorded in the book of Judges. Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah,...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book ... and it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe...
15 Aviv — Purge Out the Old Leaven
Today is the 15th day of Aviv and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzah). According to the Bible and tradition, there are many very important events that took place on this day. For instance, tradition believes that it was on this day that God made...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, April 23, 2024
When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,” you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your...