Jun 7, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to the book of Jubilee, it was on this day that Jacob and his family departed Canaan and headed to Egypt in order to be reunited with his son, Joseph. It is recorded in Genesis 46: “Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their...
Jun 7, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure.. (Deuteronomy 25:13-15) Justice and honesty are...
Jun 6, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 70 AD that the Romans completed the construction of embankments around the city of Jerusalem as they prepared for their final assault on the city. Two thousand years later, not a whole lot has changed. Through other means, the nations of...
Jun 6, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. (Deuteronomy 25:4) This passage singles out the ox but should, obviously, be applied to all beasts that are in service to mankind. The primary issue is to point out how unfair and inconsiderate it is to expect...
Jun 5, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1967, that Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem, uniting the city for the first time since the dawning of the modern state of Israel. It was also on this day that the huge bulge of the country of Jordan that lay on the “West Bank” of the...
Jun 5, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
It shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with...
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