7 Tishri — Who Is On The LORD’s Side?
It was on this day, according to Jewish tradition, that all of those who worshipped the Golden Calf, died. It's recorded in Exodus 32:27-28: “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, October 9, 2024
I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. (Psalm 9:1-2) As to why David wrote this psalm and for whom, there is much discussion in...
6 Tishri — Mercy Does Not Equate To Approval
Today we are just four days away from what is considered, in Judaism, to be the holiest day of the year. Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement marks the culmination of a 40-day period of teshuvah, or repentance. On Yom Kippur atonement was made for the sins of the nation...
5 Tishri — Family Matters
It was on this day, that tradition says that the son of Jacob, Naphtali, was born. Naphtali’s birth came about as a result of one of the most infamous sibling rivalries in all of Scripture, that between Leah and Rachel. These two sisters had been contending with one...
Daily Bread — Monday, October 7, 2024
You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. (Psalm 8:5) I've often wondered just what David meant by these words seeing that, in all of Creation, only mankind was created in the image and likeness of God. That being...
4 Tishri — The End Is Just The Beginning
In the Gospel of John, we are given the account of the sickness, eventual death and subsequent resurrection of Lazarus. One of the more interesting features in this particular story is Messiah’s delay in going to him followed with this statement in John 11:4: “This...
Daily Bread — Sunday, October 6, 2024
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) We don't know exactly what night it was that David stared up at the...
3 Tishri — May Your Name Be Inscribed
It was on this day that Gedaliah ben Ahikam, governor of Judah after the destruction of the first Temple, was assassinated by other Jews at Mizpah (2 Kings 25:22-25). To commemorate this assassination and the dispersal of the Jewish remnant still left in the land of...
Daily Bread — Saturday, October 5, 2024
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) Why does David not mention the sun along with the moon and stars?...
2 Tishri — Behold The Lamb!
Today is considered by Judaism to be the second day of Yom Teruah (a.k.a. Rosh Hashanah or “head of the year.”). And so on this day, the story of the akedah or “the binding” of Isaac, found in Genesis 22:9-10, is read in the synagogue. “Then they came...
Daily Bread — Friday, October 4, 2024
Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. (Psalm 8:2) Throughout history, the wicked of this world have demonstrated their displeasure at the overwhelming evidence...
1 Tishri — Summoned From Suffering; Entering the Glory
Today is Yom Teruah (a.k.a. Rosh Hashana) or the Feast of Trumpets. According to tradition, there are several key events in history that happened on this day. For starters, tradition says that the creation of Adam and Eve occurred on this day. It’s also believed,...