Thursday, April 14, 2011
United With Israel
United With Israel
United With Israel
United With Israel
- Passover Appeal: Freedom and Food for the People of IsraelLink: http://unitedwithisrael.org/passover-appeal/
Passover commemorates our freedom from slavery and the birth of the Jewish nation: A healthy, liberating experience for both body and soul!
Unfortunately, for impoverished families in Israel, Passover can be a time of stress, hunger and despair. When there’s no food on the holiday table, Passover is no longer a time of freedom. Tragically, it can be tranformed into another experience of bondage, depression and despair.
Passover is an especially costly time – buying matzoh, wine and other essential food for the entire seven-day holiday. For impoverished families, this extra burden is impossible to bear.
“Lema’an Achai” is a non-profit organization aiding poor families in the city of Bet Shemesh, Israel. Lema’an Achai helps poor families to get back on their feet, through back-to-work programs, financial management counseling, and over twenty-five innovative and effective social services rehabilitation programs.
This year, a great tragedy has befallen a Bet Shemesh family. Daniel Viflic, a 16 year old boy was critically injured by a missile fired from Gaza onto an Israeli bus while traveling to visit his grandmother in Beer Sheva. Many United with Israel members from Bet Shemesh know Daniel’s family and are personally involved in helping.
Daniel is fighting for his life and needs our prayers. (His Hebrew name is “Rafael Daniel Aryeh ben Tamar”). The family’s catering business has been shut down and desperately needs help to provide for their needs during the Passover holiday.
A portion of Passover donations will be allocated to the Viflic family of Bet Shemesh, Israel.
Click here for more info --> http://unitedwithisrael.org/passover-appeal/
Psalm 3
Psalm 3 (New International Version, ©2011)
Psalm 3
Psalm 3[a]
A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom. 1 LORD, how many are my foes!How many rise up against me!
2 Many are saying of me,
“God will not deliver him.”[b]
3 But you, LORD, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
4 I call out to the LORD,
and he answers me from his holy mountain.
5 I lie down and sleep;
I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.
6 I will not fear though tens of thousands
assail me on every side.
7 Arise, LORD!
Deliver me, my God!
Strike all my enemies on the jaw;
break the teeth of the wicked.
8 From the LORD comes deliverance.
May your blessing be on your people.
Psalm 9
Psalm 9 (New International Version, ©2011)
Psalm 9
Psalm 9[a][b]
For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David. 1 I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart;I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.
3 My enemies turn back;
they stumble and perish before you.
4 For you have upheld my right and my cause,
sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.
5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6 Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,
you have uprooted their cities;
even the memory of them has perished.
7 The LORD reigns forever;
he has established his throne for judgment.
8 He rules the world in righteousness
and judges the peoples with equity.
9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name trust in you,
for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
11 Sing the praises of the LORD, enthroned in Zion;
proclaim among the nations what he has done.
12 For he who avenges blood remembers;
he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.
13 LORD, see how my enemies persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may declare your praises
in the gates of Daughter Zion,
and there rejoice in your salvation.
15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;
their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
16 The LORD is known by his acts of justice;
the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.[c]
17 The wicked go down to the realm of the dead,
all the nations that forget God.
18 But God will never forget the needy;
the hope of the afflicted will never perish.
19 Arise, LORD, do not let mortals triumph;
let the nations be judged in your presence.
20 Strike them with terror, LORD;
let the nations know they are only mortal.
Footnotes:
- Psalm 9:1 Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.
- Psalm 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.
- Psalm 9:16 The Hebrew has Higgaion and Selah (words of uncertain meaning) here; Selah occurs also at the end of verse 20.
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