Sep 12, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting. (Numbers 19:4) It is obvious in the passage that Eleazar wasn’t the one who slaughtered the heifer or else...
Sep 11, 2023 | 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 11, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him. (Numbers 19:3) As we continue discussing the message embedded within the rites of the Red Heifer, it is clear that the primary intent is to point us...
Sep 10, 2023 | 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 10, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never...
Sep 9, 2023 | 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...
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