Daily Bread — Thursday, April 25, 2024
The priests and the Levites shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His portion. Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance. (Deuteronomy 18:1-2) It is...
16 Aviv — A Mighty Man of Valor
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,...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book ... and it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe...
15 Aviv — Purge Out the Old Leaven
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...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, April 23, 2024
When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,” you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your...
14 Aviv — Behold The Lamb!
Today is the fourteenth day of Aviv, the preparation day for the Passover and it was on this day that two prominent events with similar themes are believed to have happened. First, it’s believed to be the day that Cain and Abel brought their sacrificial gifts as...
Daily Bread — Monday, April 22, 2024
Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act...
13 Aviv — Seasons of Joy & Testing
It was on this day that the German Worker's Party was officially renamed the National Socialist German Worker's Party - we know them as the Nazis. Ironically, or maybe not ironically, this event happened on the very same day that Haman the Agagite published his decree...
Daily Bread — Sunday, April 21, 2024
Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act...
12 Aviv — Out of Babylon
It was on this day that Ezra and his followers left the river Ahava, making their way to Jerusalem, as recorded in the book of Ezra. “Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our...
Daily Bread — Saturday, April 20, 2024
If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord...
11 Aviv — Our Reproach Was Rolled Away
It was on this day that the generation of Israelites born in the wilderness were circumcised upon entering the land of Israel. This is recorded in Joshua 5: “So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp...