14 Aviv — Behold The Lamb!
Today is the fourteenth day of Aviv, the preparation day for the Passover and it was on this day that two prominent events with similar themes are believed to have happened. First, it’s believed to be the day that Cain and Abel brought their sacrificial gifts as...
Daily Bread — Monday, April 22, 2024
Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act...
13 Aviv — Seasons of Joy & Testing
It was on this day that the German Worker's Party was officially renamed the National Socialist German Worker's Party - we know them as the Nazis. Ironically, or maybe not ironically, this event happened on the very same day that Haman the Agagite published his decree...
Daily Bread — Sunday, April 21, 2024
Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act...
12 Aviv — Out of Babylon
It was on this day that Ezra and his followers left the river Ahava, making their way to Jerusalem, as recorded in the book of Ezra. “Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our...
Daily Bread — Saturday, April 20, 2024
If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord...
11 Aviv — Our Reproach Was Rolled Away
It was on this day that the generation of Israelites born in the wilderness were circumcised upon entering the land of Israel. This is recorded in Joshua 5: “So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp...
Daily Bread — Friday, April 19, 2024
You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish or defect, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 17:1) As we come into a new chapter, let us consider the logical progression of the commands that follow those...
10 Aviv — The Stones Will Cry Out
It was on this day that Israel, under the leadership of Joshua, the son of Nun, crossed over the Jordan River and erected the twelve-stone monument at Gilgal. This is recorded in the 4th chapter of Joshua: Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the...
Daily Bread — Thursday, April 18, 2024
You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the Lord your God. You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates. (Deuteronomy 16:21-22) As we consider this command, one of the first...
9 Aviv — A Pure Language
It was on this day in 1722 that Judah Monis, the first publisher of a Hebrew book in New England, became a believer in Yeshua as the Messiah. Three months following his conversion, Monis, considered to be an apostate by Judaism, became the instructor in Hebrew at...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, April 17, 2024
You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God is giving you. (Deuteronomy 16:20) In Jewish thought, any one who tramples on those who can't defend themselves is seen as an enemy of God. In follow up to that...