Today is the final day of the month of Aviv and we are currently in the time of “counting the Omer.” The word, omer, is an unit of dry measure for things like grains and other dry commodities that was used in the era of the Sanctuary. It is estimated to be about 3.64 liters […] »
It was on this day that the walls of Jericho fell down flat, as recorded in Joshua 6: “It came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the […] »
It was on this day in 1951 that the Israeli Knesset passed a resolution proclaiming this day as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or in Hebrew, Yom Hashoah. This day commemorates the execution of six million Jews and the attempted extermination of all European Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s. Others, besides the Jews, […] »
According to tradition, it was on this day that Joshua, the son of Nun, passed away, as recorded in Joshua 24: “Now it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. And they buried him within the border […] »