Feb 21, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven…. Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming...
Feb 20, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. (Deuteronomy 8:18) I believe it is safe to say that all the difficulties Israel was...
Feb 19, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them … and all that you have is...
Feb 18, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. (Deuteronomy 8:10) In Judaism, the dinner table is considered to be an altar of sorts and the time spent at the table a semi-sacred gathering. Therefore...
Feb 17, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you...
Feb 16, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. (Deuteronomy 8:5) The hunger suffered in the wilderness, followed by the manna, was in some ways a form of correction, or as Moses puts it, chastening. But if chastening,...
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