Daily Bread — Thursday, May 25, 2023
Good Morning. And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. ... You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord (Leviticus 24:5-6) This is, of course, referring to the shewbread, or a better translation would be "the...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Good Morning. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually." (Leviticus 24:1-2) The seven branched lamp stand, the menorah, was to burn...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Good Morning. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. (Leviticus 23:42-43) Very...
Daily Bread — Monday, May 22, 2023
Good Morning. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. (Leviticus 23:40) Sukkot, or the...
Daily Bread — Sunday, May 21, 2023
Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord." (Leviticus 23:34) The seventh of the seven moedim -- "appointed times" -- is the Feast of Tabernacles, or as...
Daily Bread — Saturday, May 20, 2023
Good Morning. Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:27) As I had previously mentioned, the seventh...
Daily Bread — Friday, May 19, 2023
Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation." (Leviticus 23:24) As we discussed in the previous devotion, on the first...
Daily Bread — Thursday, May 18, 2023
Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation." (Leviticus 23:24) Where the Hebrew calendar is concerned, the seventh...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Good Morning. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Good Morning. You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:17) In the days of the Temple, on the day of Pentecost...
Daily Bread — Monday, May 15, 2023
Good Morning. And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain...
Daily Bread — Sunday, May 14, 2023
Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest." (Leviticus 23:10) As we read about these different...
