Apr 28, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to Jewish tradition, it was on this day that Pharaoh, thinking that the wilderness had shut them in, caught up with the Hebrews while they were encamped at Pi Hahiroth – “the mouth of the gorges.” Israel came to be at this place because, as they were...
Apr 27, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day that, having learned of their flight the previous day, Pharaoh began his pursuit of Israel into the wilderness. Ironically, on this same date over 3500 years later, on April 20, 1889, another tyrant, Adolph Hitler was born. As we go through these...
Apr 26, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to tradition, it was on this day that Pharaoh was informed that the Hebrews were escaping, and soon after, he began his pursuit. “Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against...
Apr 25, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to some traditions and interpretations of Scripture, this is the day that Noah’s ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, as recorded in Genesis 8: “Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of...
Apr 24, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
According to tradition, it was on this day that the angel of the Lord commanded Gideon to attack the Midianites as recorded in the book of Judges. Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah,...
Apr 23, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is the 15th day of Aviv and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzah). According to the Bible and tradition, there are many very important events that took place on this day. For instance, tradition believes that it was on this day that God made...
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