Feb 23, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses was circumcised in Egypt. His circumcision would have occurred in a very troubling time for Hebrew parents who saw the birth of a male child, considering that Pharaoh had ordered their deaths. Later, Moses would be...
Feb 23, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. (Deuteronomy 9:16) Even as Moses was receiving the tablets of the covenant, the people...
Feb 22, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. (Deuteronomy 9:6) Once again we have a verse to remind us that, in spite of our continued stubbornness and...
Feb 21, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 19 B.C. that a dedication ceremony was held to initiate the expansion of the Temple under the auspices of Herod the Great. The historian Josephus recorded that: “In the fifteenth year of his reign, Herod rebuilt the Temple, and...
Feb 21, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven…. Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming...
Feb 20, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 1488 that the first printed edition of the Tanach, that is the Torah, the Prophets and the different Hebrew writings, was printed in Soncino, Italy. This occurred in a time when other key events were taking place or were about to take...
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