Sep 28, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Judaism believes it was on this day, the 25th of Elul, that Creation began. This belief is based on another tradition which assigns the day that Adam was created on as the first day of Tishri, also known as Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets). The Bible tells us that...
Sep 28, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; save me from all those who persecute me; and deliver me, lest they tear me like a lion, rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. (Psalm 7:1-2) Reading through the psalms ascribed to David, it doesn’t take long...
Sep 27, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 520 B.C., that Zerubbabel and the people of Judea began to clear the Temple site in preparation of construction of the Second Temple. We can read about this in the book of Haggai: “So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of...
Sep 27, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. (Psalm 6:6-8) According to Jewish...
Sep 26, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
There’s an old saying, attributed to George Santayana, that says: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” During the month of Elul we are reminded of this truth, because the month of Elul is the time of year that we are called upon to...
Sep 26, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake! For in death there is no remembrance of You; in the grave who will give You thanks? (Psalm 6:4-5) According to some commentators, when David wrote this he was very ill and under intense pressure due to...
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