How to Win the Day
It’s been said that if you win the morning, you win the day.
On today’s podcast, host Yael Eckstein shares interesting insights on how we should approach each new day. And she does this by looking to the Bible—at a Jewish teaching about the priest’s daily service, first in the Tabernacle and then later in the Temple.
By adopting this biblical mindset, we can experience every day with maximum joy, clarity, and productivity—and win the day!
And listen to more of Yael’s teachings from the Bible on her daily podcast, The Chosen People.
Episode Notes:
In the Bible verses Yael focuses on today, we’ll learn about God’s commandments to Aaron and his sons regarding their service in His holy sanctuary. In Jewish tradition, every verse in the Bible carries an eternal message for us. And in this episode, Yael reveals how the service of the priests teaches us how we can approach each day in order to serve God to our maximum potential.
Today’s Bible verse is Leviticus 6: 10, which describes the first thing that the priests did each morning as they began their service. It reads, “The priest shall then put on his linen clothes, with linen undergarments next to his body, and shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.”
Every night, the “burnt offering” remained on the altar, and every morning its ashes were removed. We, too, must remove yesterday’s remains—our hurts, our anger, our resentments—in order to make the most of today.
Every day is truly a gift, but in order to receive it, we need to have the right mindset. Yael explores the main obstacles that hold us back in life and applies biblical teachings that can help us overcome these obstacles and live fully in each day. She shares how she has applied these lessons to her own life by giving us a glimpse into her experience as a mother of four. And she closes with a powerful Jewish prayer that she recites each night in order to break free from the past and step confidently and joyfully into the new day.
