Dec 9, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. (Deuteronomy 1:39) Moses reminded them that, when Israel embraced the spies’...
Dec 8, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
The Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place. (Deuteronomy 1:31) There is a rabbinic adage based on this passage that says, “A loving father carries his son when he is too young or too weak to make...
Dec 7, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes.” (Deuteronomy 1:29-30) Once again, I think it is important to remember...
Dec 6, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts. The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. (Deuteronomy 1:28) It is both compelling and sad to think that...
Dec 5, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; and you complained in your tents, and said, “Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy...
Dec 4, 2023 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. (Deuteronomy 1:23-23) Many have always assumed that God is the One who initiated the...
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