5 Adar — Who Needs Fame and Fortune?
There’s an old song that says fame and fortune is just a passing thing. The song’s writer conveys the message that riches and being well recognized are not nearly as important as family, relationships and love because these are things that are eternal. Most people,...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men! (Psalm 31:19) In the previous devotion, we addressed the fact that God rewards the righteous for their...
4 Adar – Don’t Be Dismayed If the Promise Is Delayed
It was on this day in the year 68 A.D. that the Roman commander, and soon to be Emperor Vespasian, occupied the city of Gedara on his march though the Galilee. This is recorded by the historian Flavius Josephus who said: “Vespasian marched to the city of Gadara,...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men! (Psalm 31:19) There is a belief within Judaism that says God rewards the righteous, in this world and...
3 Adar — He Shall Reign
It was on this day in 1949 that the first permanent government of the State of Israel assumed office. Ironically or not, this was also the same day that the security council recommended Israel’s admission into the United Nations. Though it was, indeed, the first...
Daily Bread — Monday, March 03, 2025
But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. Make Your face shine upon Your servant; save me for Your mercies’ sake. (Psalm 31:14-16) In spite of...
2 Adar — On the Same Page
It was on this day in the year 553 A.D. that Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire issued an order that provided for the public reading of the Greek translation of the biblical portion, or the Torah portion, that was being read in Jewish synagogues each Sabbath....
Daily Bread — Sunday, March 02, 2025
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eye wastes away with grief, yes, my soul and my body! For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. I am a reproach among all my enemies,...
1 Adar — In The Presence Of My Enemies
Jewish tradition believes that it was on this day that the the ninth plague, the plague of darkness, descended upon Egypt. It’s recorded in Exodus 10:21-23. “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of...
Daily Bread — Saturday, March 01, 2025
I have hated those who regard useless idols; but I trust in the Lord. I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, for You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities, and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a...
30 Shevat — Finish The Race
It was on this day in 1667 that the practice of forcing Jews to run a footrace in the Roman carnival, while being buffeted and harassed, came to an end. This carnival typically opened on a Monday, and so to the Jews that day became known as Black Monday. On Black...
Daily Bread — Friday, February 28, 2025
Therefore, for Your name’s sake, lead me and guide me. Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for You are my strength. Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. (Psalm 31:3-5) If you and I could see all and...