8 Shevat — Teach Your Children Diligently
In times past, today was considered a day of fasting in commemoration of the belief that today marked the end of the period of the Elders who were contemporaries of Joshua. These were the people who witnessed the miracles in the wilderness and the crossing over the...
Daily Bread — Thursday, January 18, 2024
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) These verses, known as the Sh'ma, essentially sum up the first two commandments given to Israel...
7 Shevat — Making Aliyah
It was on this day in 1930 that the fifth aliyah to the Holy Land began. Perhaps some of you are not familiar with this term, aliyah. It is the Hebrew word that defines immigration to Israel; if someone is going to move to Israel, it is said that they make “aliyah.”...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) After relating the Ten Commandments to the next generation of Israelites, Moses proceeded to...
6 Shevat — Let Him Vindicate You
What do you do when someone says something negative about you, publicly? It might be true or it might not be true. It might be something that happened a long time ago. Regardless of the situation, someone - maybe another believer - discloses something about you for...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, January 16, 2024
These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. (Deuteronomy 5:22) There is...
5 Shevat — All Tribes Will Serve The King
Counting from the month of Aviv in the spring, Shevat is the eleventh month and is mentioned by name in in Zechariah 1:7. The name, “Shevat,” has some interesting connotations. The root word means “to control” or “to rule” and is often translated in the Bible as...
Daily Bread — Monday, January 15, 2024
You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant,...
4 Shevat — Everything Has A Season
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3)...
Daily Bread — Sunday, January 14, 2024
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. (Deuteronomy 5:11) Growing up, many of us considered this instruction to mean that we were not to attach God's Name to a swear word. While I...
3 Shevat — He Never Sleeps Nor Slumbers
It was on this day in 1933 that Adolph Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany. Ironically, on the same day and in the same city where Hitler was appointed as German Chancellor, the Society for Youth Aliyah was established. Over time, this group would be...
Daily Bread — Saturday, January 13, 2024
For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Deuteronomy 5:9-10) This is...