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June 13, 2026 / 28 Sivan 5786
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Sunrise view of Tel Lachish (RnDmS, Shutterstock.com)
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Shalom -, Please enjoy today's Daily Inspiration from Israel.
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Those on Israel’s side, meanwhile, turned back to the rest of the Benjaminites and put them to the sword—towns, people, cattle—everything that remained. Finally, they set fire to all the towns that were left.
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וְאִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל שָׁבוּ אֶל־בְּנֵי בִנְיָמִן וַיַּכּוּם לְפִי־חֶרֶב מֵעִיר מְתֹם עַד־בְּהֵמָה עַד כׇּל־הַנִּמְצָא גַּם כׇּל־הֶעָרִים הַנִּמְצָאוֹת שִׁלְּחוּ בָאֵשׁ
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v'-EESH yis-ra-AYL SHA-vu el b'-NAY vin-ya-MEEN va-ya-KUM l'-fee KHE-rev may-EER m'-TOM ad b'-hay-MAH ad kol ha-nim-TZA GAM kol he-a-REEM ha-nim-tza-OT shi-l'-KHU va-AYSH
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The Sin of Staying Silent
By Rabbi Elie Mischel
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There is a teaching from the Sages that I cannot shake. It's one of those teachings that lives in the back of my mind, a teaching that unsettles me every time I think of it.
During the period of the Judges, a civil war erupted among the tribes of Israel. By the time it was over, some seventy thousand Israelites were dead and the tribe of Benjamin was almost entirely exterminated.
"And the men of Israel turned upon the children of Benjamin and smote them with the edge of the sword, (destroying) from the city even the cattle, even all that was found. Also, all the cities which they found they set on fire" (Judges 20:48).
Out of an entire tribe, only six hundred men survived. It is, unquestionably, one of the most horrific moments in all of Jewish history.
How could this happen among God's chosen people?
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Open Every Book of the Hebrew Bible
Join the Bible Month Challenge and watch 24 FREE videos, one for each book of the Hebrew Bible. Discover the original language, the story of Israel, and the life-changing ideas woven through Scripture from Genesis to Chronicles.
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6 Prophetic Books That Are More Relevant Today Than Ever
If you’ve been following the news lately, you already know: biblical prophecy is unfolding before our eyes. Every headline out of Israel, every tremor in the Middle East, every moment that makes you reach for your Bible, it’s all there. The prophets saw it. They wrote it down. And we are living it.
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UNRWA’s Hamas Problem: 100+ Staffers Exposed as Hamas Terrorists
For two decades, Israel warned the world that UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, was not a humanitarian organization with a Hamas problem. It was a Hamas organization with a humanitarian cover. The world wasn’t listening. Now, a landmark U.S. federal investigation is dismantling every denial, name by name, rank by rank, battalion by battalion.
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Rare “Leviathans” Spotted Off Israeli Coast, Just in Time for Post-Messiah BB-Q
An Iranian missile alert forced a team of Israeli marine researchers to abandon their survey of the Mediterranean last Monday, just as they made one of the rarest sightings in a decade of deep-sea research: two sperm whales off the southern coast of Israel.
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The Return of the Red Heifers: Paving the Road to Redemption
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Feeling that modern faith is disconnected from its ancient roots? The Return of the Red Heifers bridges that gap. Trace the miraculous journey of flawless red heifers from Texas to Israel and uncover their prophetic meaning. Discover how ancient prophecy is unfolding today — and what it means for you.
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Blessings from the land of Israel,
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