Sep 25, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. There are so many events that are believed to have occurred on this day, but our focus will be on just one. Tradition has it that on this day Moses returned from the top of Mt. Sinai, carrying the second tablets of the Law....
Sep 24, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today, the 9th of Tishri, is the day before Yom Kippur. And so on the eve of Yom Kippur – the day when we entreat the Creator to forgive us of our transgressions – do we stop and consider just what are the most serious of our crimes? Perhaps with some it...
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 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 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 20, 2023 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, that tradition says that the son of Jacob, Naphtali, was born. Naphtali’s birth came about as a result of one of the most infamous sibling rivalries in all of Scripture, that between Leah and Rachel. These two sisters had been contending with one...
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