Aug 21, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1907, that the Zionist Congress adopted the song, HaTikvah or “The Hope” as the official Zionist anthem. Today, this song is the national anthem of the state of Israel. As a nation, Israel has been well acquainted with the concept of hope....
Aug 21, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all...
Aug 20, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1942, that the first news of Nazi mass exterminations reached the outside world. The news came as a result of a group Polish women, exchanged for some German prisoners, arrived in British Palestine. This disturbing news would continue to...
Aug 20, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off from among his people. (Numbers 15:30) What does it mean to act presumptuously? In Hebrew, the...
Aug 19, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, in 1553, that Pope Julius III ordered the confiscation and destruction of the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds. Pope Julius felt these works contained derogatory and anti-Christian remarks and should be destroyed. On the other hand, Judaism takes...
Aug 19, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Good Morning. And if a person sins unintentionally … the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the Lord, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. (Numbers 15:27-28) This verse is...
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