How many times do people come back from vacation and say, “I need a vacation from my vacation”?

All the time.

But nobody who ever truly kept the Sabbath, ever said they need to recover from their Sabbath.

It’s just not a thing.

And the only reason someone feels the need to get away on a sabbatical is because they don’t take that weekly sabbath.

People will fly all over creation to escape their problems and spend insane amounts of money but will never consider the fact that the sabbath is free. It comes around every single week. It comes to you; you don’t have to go to it. And it will offer you an escape from your problems…along with the ability to bear them better thereafter.

Shabbat shalom 😁

By the word of YHVH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. Psalm 33:6
#shabbatshalom

Twelve things awaited the twelve tribes when they finally reached the Promised Land: Brooks, fountains, wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olive oil, honey, bread, iron, and copper. This is literally true, but surely there were more good things than these in the Lnad. Why did Moses list these specific twelve items in Deuteronomy 8:7-9? Interestingly, they are arranged chiastically by type and function, and they also contain allegorical truths about life in God's Kingdom.

#ekev #torah

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12 Sources of Life in the Promised Land - American Torah

In Deuteronomy 8:7-9 God lists twelve things that the Hebrews would find when they finally arrived in the Promised Land. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the v

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This coming week, 25-31 August 2024 (21-27 Av 5784), the Bible reading plan covers Re’eh (See).

25 Aug Deut 11:26-12:10 Ezek 31:10-32:32 Titus 2:9-3:15 Psa 119:17-24
26 Aug Deut 12:11-28 Ezek 33:1-34:10 Phlmn 1:1-25 Psa 119:25-32
27 Aug Deut 12:29-13:18 Ezek 34:11-35:15 Heb 1:1-2:4 Psa 119:33-40
28 Aug Deut 14:1-21 Ezek 36:1-38 Heb 2:5-3:6 Psa 119:41-48
29 Aug Deut 14:22-29 Ezek 37:1-38:17 Heb 3:7-4:5 Psa 119:49-56
30 Aug Deut 15:1-18 Ezek 38:18-39:29 Heb 4:6-5:11 Psa 119:57-64
31 Aug Deut 15:19-16:17 Isa 54:11-55:5 Heb 5:12-6:20 Psa 119:65-72

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Weekly Bible Reading For August 25-31: Re'eh (See) - The Barking Fox

This coming week, 25-31 August 2024 (21-27 Av 5784), the Bible reading plan covers Re’eh (See). 25 Aug Deuteronomy 11:26-12:10 Ezekiel 31:10-32:32 Titus 2:9-3:15 Psalm 119:17-2426 Aug Deuteronomy 12:11-28 Ezekiel 33:1-34:10 Philemon 1:1-25 Psalm 119:

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Romans 7:15 ESV

We all sometimes say “I don’t know what I was thinking.” Paul is making a rhetorical statement only. Clearly he does understand his own actions because he goes on to explain them.

The sinful inclination drives us to behave in ways that we know are wrong and even in ways that we really don’t want. No matter how spiritual, sanctified, and knowledgeable we might be, we still sin.