devotion

  • “I Appeared” as the Serpent Lifted Up

    This portion of Exodus takes us from God’s imperative on Moses to prophesy to the Hebrews and to Pharaoh, through the initial showdown between Moses and Pharoah’s magicians in Pharoah’s courtroom, and through the first six plagues on Egypt. Continue reading

    “I Appeared” as the Serpent Lifted Up
  • Nitzavim: The Tree that Made Wormwood Sweet

    The root bearing poisonous fruit in Deuteronomy chapter 29 is associated according to Hebrew tradition with hemlock, an herb deadly to humans. Socrates was executed by drinking hemlock. This phrase in Deut. 29 literally is translated “a root bearing a… Continue reading

    Nitzavim: The Tree that Made Wormwood Sweet