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Ezra ch.5 - Do You Have a Planning Permit?
It is the 2nd year of Darius.
After a 15 year hiatus, the prophets Hagai and Zecharia encourage the Jews to renew the building of the Temple.
The Persa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ezra ch.4 - Temple On Hold
The "Enemies of Yehuda and Binyamin" - the Samaritans, request to join the building of the Temple. When they are rebuffed by Yehoshua and Zeubavel, t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ezra ch.3 - Founding the Second Temple
The people have returned.
Now they set their attention to the Temple.
First they begin offering the Tamid, the daily sacrifice, on an altar on the Temp…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ezra ch.2 - The Returnees
42, 360 Jews return. This chapter gives a roster of sorts of all the returnees, according to their ancestral lineage and geographical origin.
1 year, 3 months ago
Ezra ch.1 - The Cyrus Declaration
Cyrus takes the reins of the Persian Empire.
He allows the Jews, (and other nations) to return to their homeland and rebuild the Temple. He even resto…
1 year, 3 months ago
Daniel ch.12 - Resurrection of the Dead
Today our chapter provides fertile ground for the ideas of resurrection of the dead, the final judgement, the book of life, and the notion of a "ketz…
1 year, 3 months ago
Daniel ch.11 - A Short History of the Greek Empire
Daniel ch.11 gives us the history of the Greek Empire until the period of the Maccabees. What implications might we draw from this historical overvie…
1 year, 3 months ago
Daniel ch.10 - Seeing Angels
Ch.10 is the introduction to the final vision of the book.
This chapter gives us a front-row seat as to the experience of prophecy, or at least, the e…
1 year, 3 months ago
Daniel ch.9 - Daniel's Prayer (and Yom Hashoah)
Daniel sees that 70 years have past but the Exile is not over. He prays to God for mercy.
One question raised by the Talmud is how a person's faith ca…
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Daniel ch.8 - Predicting the "End"
This chapter was used by many to try to calculate when the Redemption would arrive.
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