Mar 7, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
Tradition teaches that, on this day, many key events transpired, all of which centered around the culmination of Moses’ life and ministry. Tradition believes that on this day Moses was born in Egypt and, on this day years later, Moses died on Mt. Nebo. Before...
Mar 6, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to Jewish tradition, it was on this day that Moses completed his review of the Torah for the people of Israel and was informed of his impending death. It’s recorded in Deuteronomy 31:9, 14: “So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the...
Mar 5, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
There’s an old song that says fame and fortune is just a passing thing. The song’s writer conveys the message that riches and being well recognized are not nearly as important as family, relationships and love because these are things that are eternal. Most people,...
Mar 4, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 68 A.D. that the Roman commander, and soon to be Emperor Vespasian, occupied the city of Gedara on his march though the Galilee. This is recorded by the historian Flavius Josephus who said: “Vespasian marched to the city of Gadara,...
Mar 3, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in 1949 that the first permanent government of the State of Israel assumed office. Ironically or not, this was also the same day that the security council recommended Israel’s admission into the United Nations. Though it was, indeed, the first...
Mar 2, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 553 A.D. that Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire issued an order that provided for the public reading of the Greek translation of the biblical portion, or the Torah portion, that was being read in Jewish synagogues each Sabbath....
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