Mar 16, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. There you shall take your burnt offerings … and there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall...
Mar 15, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1957 that Israeli forces, bowing to international pressures, withdrew from the Gaza Strip and the Sharm El Sheikh area along the Gulf of Aqaba. This was the first such withdrawal because, as we know, the IDF had to re-enter the Gaza Strip in the...
Mar 15, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. (Deuteronomy 12:5) When Moses referred to “the place” it should be understood that it was not just any place....
Mar 14, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Not too long ago we mentioned how Israel, assembled at the foot of Mt. Sinai, grew impatient at Moses’ delayed return from the top of the mountain. They eventually coerced Aaron into taking their gold and using it to fashion a Golden Calf. “Now when the people saw...
Mar 14, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods … and you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods...
Mar 13, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
As Jacob was preparing to cross into the land of Canaan to face his brother and chief nemesis, Esau, the Bible tells us that he was greatly distressed and afraid. In his defense, there was ample reason to be concerned; Esau was bringing 400, presumably armed,...
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