Sep 23, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1939 that Reinhard Heydrich met with aids in Berlin to discuss the so-called “Final Solution” for the “Jewish problem.” In the minds of people like Heydrich, Goebbels, Göring and of course, Hitler, Jews were considered to be mongrels, criminals...
Sep 23, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. Thus says your brother Israel: “You know all the hardship that has befallen us, how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. …...
Sep 22, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, according to Jewish tradition, that all of those who worshipped the Golden Calf, died. It’s recorded in Exodus 32:27-28: “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to...
Sep 22, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” (Numbers 20:12) Bible students have long struggled with how...
Sep 21, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today we are just four days away from what is considered, in Judaism, to be the holiest day of the year. Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement marks the culmination of a 40-day period of teshuvah, or repentance. On Yom Kippur atonement was made for the sins of the nation...
Sep 21, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. (Numbers 20:11) Just before this occurred, Moses asked the people, “Are we to bring forth water for you out of this rock?”...
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