Jun 15, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them. You shall build with whole stones the altar of the Lord your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 27:5-6) As was...
Jun 14, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1940 that the extermination camp known as Auschwitz was opened. In the course of its existence, two and a half million people would be killed there. Another 500,000 would die of starvation and disease. That totals about three million...
Jun 14, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And it shall be, on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime. You shall write on them all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 27:2-3) From...
Jun 13, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses received the first tablets of the law, written by the fiery finger of God, as in the book of Exodus: “And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the...
Jun 13, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
The Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to...
Jun 12, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is the day that our Jewish friends celebrate the festival known, in Hebrew, as Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks. Most people in the western world refer to it as Pentecost because, in Greek, it is known as Pentecostus or “fiftieth” referring to the fiftieth day...
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