Caption transcript for “Nehemia Gordon: The Bible Reading Jew,” Part 2

• 00:10 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:16 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE,
• 00:19 FOR THE SAME LORD OVERALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:29 CONSIDERING THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF OUR WORLD TODAY, HERE'S ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:34 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:36 IF YOU WATCHED LAST WEEK'S PROGRAM YOU'LL BE FASCINATED AGAIN,
• 00:41 BECAUSE WE HAVE NEHEMIA GORDON BACK.
• 00:43 HE IS AN ORTHODOX JEWISH MAN, WHO READS THE SCRIPTURES AND DOES WHAT THEY SAY.
• 00:48 NOW, WHAT DO I MEAN? DON'T ALL THE JEWS? NO, THEY DON'T.
• 00:51 NOT A JEW UNLESS HE'S MESSIANIC AND SAVED
• 00:54 [HE] IS BASICALLY NOT FAMILIAR WITH SCRIPTURE.
• 00:57 JEWS IN ISRAEL DON'T READ END-TIMES PROPHECY
• 01:00 EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE GOING TO BE THE MIDDLE OF IT.
• 01:03 THEY DON'T KNOW THE MESSIAH.
• 01:04 THEY MISQUOTE THE TORAH ALL THE TIME.
• 01:07 THEY KEEP LAWS THAT ARE NOWHERE NEAR SCRIPTURE.
• 01:10 THEY HAVE WHAT THEY CALL AN "ORAL LAW"
• 01:12 THAT'S SUPPOSEDLY WAS TOLD TO MOSES AND PASSED DOWN ORALLY AND FINALLY WRITTEN DOWN.
• 01:16 BUT, THAT'S ABOUT AS GOOD AS THE COMMENTARIES THAT WE HAVE IN BIBLES.
• 01:21 YOU WOULDN'T LIVE YOU LIFE ACCORDING TO SCOFIELD OR RYRIE OR THOMPSON.
• 01:24 YOU WOULD LIVE YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE.
• 01:27 ANYWAY, YOU'LL SEE WHAT I MEAN AS WE TALK TO HIM.
• 01:29 I WAS JUST FASCINATED WITH EVERYTHING THIS MAN SAID.
• 01:32 HE IS REALLY SOMETHING, A KARAITE JEW, NEHEMIA GORDON.
• 01:37 THE SEPARATION OF MILK AND MEAT, PEOPLE KNOW JEWS BY THIS.
• 01:42 THEY WON'T DRINK A GLASS OF MILK WITH A MEAT MEAL.
• 01:44 THEY SEPARATE THEIR DISHES. SOME EVEN HAVE 2 DISHWASHERS.
• 01:47 EVEN IN JERUSALEM, YOU GO TO A RESTAURANT
• 01:49 AND THEY'LL SAY ON THE FRONT
• 01:51 "IS IT A MEAT RESTAURANT OR A MILK RESTAURANT"
• 01:53 AND THE 2 CAN'T MIX.
• 01:55 SO IT SAYS IN THE TORAH, VERY CLEARLY, IN 3 PLACES, WORD FOR WORD;
• 01:59 I'LL READ TO YOU FROM EXODUS 23, (READING HEBREW)
• 02:06 A KID, OF COURSE, IS A YOUNG GOAT OR A YOUNG SHEEP.
• 02:08 IT SAYS, THREE TIMES WORD FOR WORD; DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK.
• 02:12 SO, AS A KARAITE, I ASK THE QUESTION AN ANCIENT ISRAELITE SHEPHERD OR FARMER HEARING THIS,
• 02:18 HEARING THE TORAH READ TO THEM EVERY SEVENTH YEAR AS DESCRIBED IN DEUTERONOMY 31,
• 02:23 WHAT WOULD HE UNDERSTAND FROM THE COMMANDMENT, "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK?"
• 02:27 PRESUMABLY HE'D UNDERSTAND, "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK"
• 02:30 AND ESPECIALLY IF IT SAYS THE SAME THING THREE TIMES.
• 02:32 THIS IS THE WAY BABYLONIANS SACRIFICED, I UNDERSTAND AND CANAANITES.
• 02:35 IT WAS VERY INHUMANE.
• 02:37 IT WAS A CANAANITE FERTILITY RITUAL.
• 02:39 THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN DISCOVERED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS.
• 02:41 THEY WOULD TAKE THE FIRSTBORN KID AND THEY'D BOIL IT IN THE MILK OF ITS MOTHER
• 02:46 AND THAT WAS THE FERTILITY RITUAL FOR THE GODDESS ISHTAR, OR ASHTOR.
• 02:51 THE COMMANDMENT WAS VERY CLEAR, "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK"
• 02:58 AND THE FACT THAT IT SAYS IT 3 TIMES, THAT'S BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WERE HEARING THIS.
• 03:02 REMEMBER NOT EVERYBODY HAD A BIBLE IN THEIR HOUSE.
• 03:05 TO PRODUCE A BIBLE, NOBODY HAD ONE.
• 03:07 TO PRODUCE A COPY OF THE TORAH WAS AN IMMENSE UNDERTAKING.
• 03:10 YOU HAD TO BE VERY RICH.
• 03:11 YOU HAD TO SLAUGHTER A WHOLE FLOCK OF SHEEP FOR THE HIDES,
• 03:15 PRODUCE BARRELS AND BARRELS OF INK.
• 03:17 YOU DIDN'T GO TO THE STORE AND BUY A PEN,
• 03:20 YOU HAD TO PAY SOMEBODY TO SIT FOR AT LEAST A YEAR TO COPY IT.
• 03:22 IT WAS ACTUALLY A LAW IN DEUTERONOMY 17
• 03:24 THAT THE KING HAS TO WRITE FOR HIMSELF, A COPY OF THE TORAH.
• 03:27 WHY IS THAT?
• 03:28 IT TAKES A KING TO HAVE THE RESOURCES TO HAVE A COPY.
• 03:30 I UNDERSTAND.
• 03:31 SO, IN DEUTERONOMY 31,
• 03:33 IT TELLS US THAT THE WAY ISRAEL LEARNED THE TORAH
• 03:35 IS THEY HEARD IT READ ALOUD EVERY SEVENTH YEAR.
• 03:38 NOW SOMETHING IS BEING READ ALOUD, REPETITION IS VERY IMPORTANT.
• 03:41 SO, WHERE DO THE RABBIS GET EATING MEAT AND MILK TOGETHER
• 03:44 FROM "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK?"
• 03:46 WELL, THEY SAY THAT IF SOMETHING IS REPEATED WORD FOR WORD IN THE EXACT SAME WORDS 3 TIMES
• 03:53 AND IT ACTUALLY HAS 3 SEPARATE MEANINGS,
• 03:55 BECAUSE THEY DON'T ASK THE QUESTION, WHAT WOULD THE ANCIENT SHEPHERD UNDERSTAND.
• 03:58 THEY LOOK AT SCRIPTURE AS A SECRET CODE
• 04:01 AND ONLY THEY HAVE THE SECRET METHOD OF HOW TO DECIPHER THAT CODE.
• 04:05 SO, IF IT SAYS 3 TIMES WORD FOR WORD,
• 04:07 "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK", IT MEANS 3 SEPARATE THINGS.
• 04:10 THERE'S ACTUALLY AN OLD RABBINIC JOKE ABOUT THIS, THAT GOES,
• 04:15 MOSES IS UP ON MT. SINAI AND HE'S RECEIVING THE TORAH AND GOD SAYS TO HIM,
• 04:19 MOSES "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK".
• 04:21 AND MOSES SAYS OH, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
• 04:24 OH, YOU MEAN DON'T EAT MEAT AND MILK TOGETHER?
• 04:27 MOSES, "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK."
• 04:29 WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
• 04:31 OH, YOU MEAN, HAVE SEPARATE DISHES FOR MEAT AND MILK, WHICH OF COURSE, ORTHODOX DO TODAY.
• 04:35 MOSES, "DO NOT BOIL A KID IN ITS MOTHER'S MILK."
• 04:38 OH, YOU MEAN WAIT SIX HOURS AFTER I EAT MEAT UNTIL I'M ALLOWED TO EAT MILK,
• 04:43 AGAIN, SOMETHING ORTHODOX DO.
• 04:44 GOD FINALLY SAYS, OH, WHATEVER YOU WANT.
• 04:46 GIVE UP.
• 04:48 NOW, THIS IS A JOKE THAT THE RABBIS TELL,
• 04:50 BUT, IT ILLUSTRATES A POINT IN HERE THAT
• 04:53 WHEN SOMETHING IS REPEATED WORD FOR WORD 3 TIMES IN SCRIPTURE,
• 04:56 THE RABBIS INTERPRET IT AS HAVING 3 SEPARATE MEANING
• 04:59 AS IF THEY ARE SOMEHOW DIVINING WHAT GOD REALLY MEANT.
• 05:03 WHY NOT JUST TAKE IT FACE VALUE WHAT GOD MEANT.
• 05:05 HE WAS VERY CLEAR ABOUT IT. HE SAID IT 3 TIMES.
• 05:08 SO, I EAT MEAT AND MILK TOGETHER, ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM.
• 05:10 I DON'T HAVE SEPARATE DISHES FOR MEAT AND MILK.
• 05:12 THERE'S JUST NO REASON NOT TO.
• 05:15 IT'S A VERY INTERESTING THING THAT MAIMONIDES TALKS ABOUT.
• 05:20 HE SAYS THAT, MAIMONIDES WAS GREAT 12TH CENTURY RABBINIC THEOLOGIAN.
• 05:25 AND REALLY MODERN ORTHODOX JUDAISM IS A RELIGION OF MAIMONIDES IN MANY RESPECTS.
• 05:29 HE SAYS THAT WHEN THE FUTURE PROPHETS,
• 05:34 WHEN PROPHECY IS REESTABLISHED AND THE PROPHET WILL COME
• 05:37 AND HE TELLS THE RABBIS THAT THEY'VE INTERPRETED THE LAW WRONG
• 05:42 IN EVEN THE MOST MINOR POINTS, THAT PROPHET MUST BE EXECUTED.
• 05:47 A PROPHET HAS NO RIGHT TO CONTRADICT THE WORDS OF THE RABBIS.
• 05:51 THE RABBIS IN RABBINIC THOUGHT HAVE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE.
• 05:56 YOU DON'T EVEN READ ABOUT THEM IN THE SCRIPTURES.
• 05:58 RIGHT, THAT FROM YOU, IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS
• 06:01 BECAUSE I WAS RAISED WITH RABBINIC JUDAISM
• 06:03 AND WHEN I ACTUALLY SAT DOWN AND STARTED READING THE--
• 06:06 I'D READ THE TORAH, BUT WHEN I SAT DOWN AND STARTED READING THE PROPHETS AND THE WRITINGS,
• 06:09 I GENUINELY, NAIVELY EXPECTED THAT I WOULD BE READING ABOUT THIS RABBI AND THAT RABBI
• 06:15 AND THEY'RE NOT MENTIONED ANYWHERE.
• 06:18 THERE'S NO MENTION OF AN ORAL TORAH, THE BASIC DOCTRINE OF RABBINIC PHARISAIC JUDAISM
• 06:23 IS THAT THERE IS AN ORAL TORAH REVEALED ON MT. SINAI.
• 06:26 IT'S NOT MENTIONED ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE HEBREW SCRIPTURE.
• 06:28 WHAT ABOUT THE SABBATH?
• 06:30 THE RABBIS REALLY COME DOWN ON THE SABBATH.
• 06:32 OH, THAT'S,--
• 06:33 IF YOU ASK MOST ORTHODOX RABBINIC JEWS
• 06:36 WHAT THE MOST IMPORTANT LAWS ARE,
• 06:38 THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THE SABBATH UP THERE WITH THE TOP THREE.
• 06:40 THE SABBATH IS A VERY IMPORTANT LAW.
• 06:43 IT'S THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE CREATOR AND ISRAEL.
• 06:46 BUT THEY TURN THE SABBATH INTO SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
• 06:49 I REMEMBER THIS GROWING UP THAT WORK IS FORBIDDEN ON THE SABBATH, OBVIOUSLY.
• 06:55 SO THE RABBIS ASK THE QUESTION, WHAT IS WORK?
• 06:57 SO THEY DEFINE WORK IN A VERY TECHNICAL LEGAL DEFINITION
• 07:02 THAT THERE ARE 39 SPECIFIC ACTS THAT ARE FORBIDDEN
• 07:05 AND THOSE ACTS INCLUDE GRINDING GRAIN INTO FLOUR
• 07:10 AND WRITING WITH A UTENSIL, WRITING WITH A PEN
• 07:15 AND CARRYING OUTSIDE, FOR EXAMPLE, ACCORDING TO A RABBI,
• 07:18 IF I PUT A HANDKERCHIEF IN MY POCKET AND WALK OUTSIDE, I'VE VIOLATED THE LAW,
• 07:23 I'VE VIOLATED THE LAW OF THE RABBIS.
• 07:25 BECAUSE YOU'RE CARRYING THE HANDKERCHIEF.
• 07:27 BECAUSE I'M CARRYING OUTSIDE AND WHEN THE TORAH SAID DO NOT WORK ON THE SABBATH,
• 07:31 THEY SAY THAT HE MEANT THESE 39 SPECIFIC THINGS.
• 07:33 THEY GIVE A VERY WELL KNOWN EXAMPLE, THE RABBIS GIVE,
• 07:37 IS THAT YOU CAN'T WALK OUTSIDE WITH A HANDKERCHIEF,
• 07:41 BUT YOU CAN TAKE ALL THE FURNITURE IN YOUR HOUSE
• 07:43 AND MOVE IT UP THREE MORE STORIES INTO THE UPPER PART OF YOUR HOUSE,
• 07:47 CARRYING THESE HEAVY,
• 07:48 BUT, YOU HAVEN'T CARRIED IT OUTSIDE. AH!
• 07:50 SO, THE IRONY HERE IS THAT HAVE THESE 39 FORMS OF WORK, BUT ACTUALLY WORK ISN'T ONE OF THEM.
• 07:55 IN OTHER WORDS, PHYSICAL LABOR IS NOT ONE OF THE 39 FORMS OF WORK THAT THE RABBIS FORBID.
• 08:01 TO ME AS A KARAITE, WHEN I SAY, OK WHAT IS WORK,
• 08:06 I LOOK AT THE SCRIPTURE AND I SAY HOW IS THIS WORD USED IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES
• 08:10 AND YOU CAN SEE FROM LOOKING THROUGHOUT THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES THE WORD "LABOR",
• 08:14 IT REFERS TO PHYSICAL LABOR AND EVEN MORE GENERALLY,
• 08:20 THE DAILY TASKS THAT A PERSON HAS TO CARRY OUT DURING THE 6 DAYS OF THE WEEK.
• 08:25 SO, TO ME WHEN IT SAYS, "WORK 6 DAYS AND REST ON THE 7TH, DO NOT DO LABOR ON THE 7TH,"
• 08:30 WHAT THAT MEANS IS, DON'T DO THE DAILY TASKS
• 08:32 THAT I'M FORCED TO DO DURING THE 6 DAYS OF THE WEEK.
• 08:35 WE WERE TALKING BEFORE, YOU ASKED ME ABOUT ELECTRICITY.
• 08:39 OH, YES.
• 08:41 ONE OF THE THINGS THE RABBIS WON'T DO IS
• 08:42 THEY WON'T TURN ON AND OFF A LIGHT SWITCH ON SHABBAT.
• 08:44 WHY NOT? MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHY.
• 08:46 I THINK MOST RABBINIC JEWS DO KNOW WHY, BUT MOST PEOPLE DON'T.
• 08:49 THE REASON THEY WON'T DO THAT IS BECAUSE ONE OF THE 39 FORMS OF LABOR IS BUILDING,
• 08:54 YOU KNOW, BUILDING, CONSTRUCTING A HOUSE, CONSTRUCTING A TENT.
• 08:57 THEY SAY, THE RABBIS SAY, THAT WHEN YOU TURN ON A LIGHT SWITCH,
• 09:02 YOU HAVE CONSTRUCTED A CIRCUIT,
• 09:04 COMPLETED AN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT
• 09:07 COMPLETED AND ELECTRIC CIRCUIT AND THAT IS AN ACT OF CONSTRUCTION.
• 09:08 OH, MY.
• 09:10 THEREFORE, IT'S FORBIDDEN TO DO THAT ON SHABBAT.
• 09:11 YOU CAN'T TURN OFF A LIGHT SWITCH BECAUSE THAT'S TEARING DOWN,
• 09:14 WHICH IS ANOTHER OF THE 39 FORMS OF LABOR.
• 09:17 EXCUSE ME FOR SMILING. IT'S ALMOST CRAZY.
• 09:20 THEY APPLY THE SAME LAW TO OPENING UP AN UMBRELLA, AS WELL.
• 09:24 I LOVE THAT.
• 09:26 BECAUSE OPENING AN UMBRELLA IS BUILDING A TENT ACCORDING TO THEM.
• 09:28 NOW, TO ME, COMMON SENSE TELLS ME THAT AN ISRAELITE FARMER HEARING THE WORD "LABOR"
• 09:36 ISN'T GOING TO--
• 09:37 LET'S SAY CONSTRUCTION IS ONE OF THE FORMS OF LABOR,
• 09:40 LET'S EVEN EXCEPT THAT FOR A MOMENT.
• 09:43 WHAT DOES TURNING OFF A LIGHT SWITCH HAVE TO DO WITH CONSTRUCTION?
• 09:46 WHAT IS OPENING A TENT?
• 09:47 IS THAT REALLY WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT?
• 09:48 IF HE'S TALKING ABOUT WORK AND LABOR,
• 09:50 THEN IT CAN'T BE SOMETHING THAT IS AS TRIVIAL AS GOING LIKE THIS.
• 09:55 NO, PUSHING AN ELEVATOR BUTTON.
• 09:57 PUSHING AN ELEVATOR BUTTON.
• 09:59 THEY WALK, THEY LITERALLY WALK 3-4-5 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS
• 10:02 RATHER THAN PUSH THE BUTTON IN THE ELEVATOR.
• 10:04 OF COURSE, THEY CONSIDER THAT WORK ON SHABBAT.
• 10:17 ♪ FOLLOW ME TO GALILEE.
• 10:20 AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, DO NOT BE AFRAID,
• 10:24 GO TELL MY BRETHREN TO GO INTO GALILEE, THERE THEY WILL SEE.
• 10:31 IT STRENGTHENS OUR FAITH TO KNOW THAT JESUS WALKED ON THE WATER AND THAT WE CAN CALL OUT TO HIM.
• 10:36 IT MAKES THE WHOLE SCRIPTURES COME TO LIFE.
• 10:49 ALRIGHT, LISTEN, WE COULD TALK ALL DAY ABOUT THESE FOIBLES, BUT YOU GREW UP WITH THESE RABBIS.
• 10:55 DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING AGAINST IT OR--
• 10:59 NO, NOT AT ALL.
• 11:00 I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT I AM NOT SAYING THESE THINGS
• 11:02 IN ORDER TO BASH THE RABBIS OR PUT THEM DOWN.
• 11:06 WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO THOUGH IS MOST JEWS WHO ARE TRYING TO FOLLOWING THE LAW OUT THERE
• 11:14 ARE ORTHODOX JEWS WHO ARE FOLLOWING THESE THINGS.
• 11:17 WHEN I SAY FOLLOW OLD TESTAMENT, MOST PEOPLE SAY, WELL THE RABBIS DO THAT TOO
• 11:21 AND I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO EXPLAIN TO THEM THAT NO, THE RABBIS DON'T DO THAT.
• 11:24 WE HAVE THE SAME THING IN A WAY, IN THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.
• 11:29 WE HAVE THE PRESBYTERIAN, USA ALWAYS COMES TO MIND BECAUSE THE RECENTLY DIVESTED FROM ISRAEL.
• 11:35 [THEY'RE] A VERY LIBERAL DENOMINATION WHO TOOK,
• 11:37 IN FRONT OF GOD AND EVERYBODY DECIDED NOT TO SUPPORT THE CHOSEN PEOPLE
• 11:41 IN THE PROMISED LAND, BUT TO SUPPORT THE OTHER SIDE, THE TERRORIST.
• 11:45 THE ANGLICANS ARE GOING THE SAME DIRECTION I UNDERSTAND.
• 11:49 CHRISTIANITY AS I CAN SEE IT IS DIVIDED BY PEOPLE THAT READ THE SCRIPTURES
• 11:55 AND DO WHAT IT SAYS, BELIEVE IN THE MESSIAH
• 11:59 AND BUNCHES OF PEOPLE THAT DO STRANGE CUSTOMS
• 12:04 AND I MENTIONED CATHOLICS, MORMONS, ALL SORTS OUT THERE AND LIBERAL DENOMINATIONS,
• 12:11 THEY ROUGHLY PERTAIN TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
• 12:13 THE WHOLE RABBINICAL THING, THEY'RE MUCH GREATER IN NUMBER,
• 12:16 BUT THE ONES THAT READ THE SCRIPTURE, IT ALMOST SHOWS ON THEIR FACE
• 12:20 THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
• 12:22 THEY'RE SINCERE IN THEIR BELIEFS.
• 12:23 THEY'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF REELECTING THE PRESIDENT, BY THE WAY.
• 12:28 I THINK THAT WAS JUST PEOPLE OF COMMON SENSE OF WHOM THEY ARE A PART.
• 12:32 THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT THERE ARE SIMILARITIES AND ONE OF THE SIMILARITIES YOU TALK ABOUT;
• 12:37 YOU TALK ABOUT CATHOLICISM IS THIS WHOLE CONCEPT OF AUTHORITY.
• 12:41 THE RABBIS HAVE THIS DOCTRINE I STARTED TALKING ABOUT BEFORE
• 12:44 THAT THEY HAVE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY ON EARTH TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE.
• 12:49 I REMEMBER I WAS PRESENTED WITH THIS BY ONE OF MY RABBIS
• 12:55 WHO WAS TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OF THE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY OF THE RABBIS.
• 12:58 I WOULD COME TO MY RABBIS AND SAY, BUT THIS INTERPRETATION DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
• 13:01 AND THAT INTERPRETATION DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
• 13:03 IT'S NOT REALLY WHAT IT SAYS AND ULTIMATELY MY RABBI SAT ME DOWN AND SAID,
• 13:07 NEHEMIA, YOU GOT TO STOP THIS.
• 13:10 YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT THE AUTHORITY OF THE RABBIS
• 13:12 WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH THEIR INTERPRETATION OR NOT.
• 13:14 AND HE TOLD ME A STORY FROM THE TALMUD TO ILLUSTRATE THIS POINT.
• 13:17 THIS IS THE FAMOUS STORY OF RABBI ELIEZER,
• 13:20 WHO WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST RABBIS AT THE END OF THE FIRST CENTURY.
• 13:23 THE STORY GOES THAT RABBI ELIEZER WAS DEBATING
• 13:26 WITH ALL THE OTHER RABBIS ON SOME POINT OF RABBINIC LAW.
• 13:29 RABBI ELIEZER HAD ONE OPINION, ALL THE OTHER RABBIS IN THE ACADEMY HAD ANOTHER OPINION
• 13:33 AND RABBI ELIEZER KNEW HE WAS RIGHT, BUT HE COULDN'T CONVINCE THEM.
• 13:37 SO, THE TALMUD SAYS THAT RABBI ELIEZER BROUGHT EVERY RATIONAL AND SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENT
• 13:41 IN THE WORLD THAT HE COULD AND THE RABBIS WEREN'T CONVINCED.
• 13:45 FINALLY HE BREAKS DOWN AND HE SAYS, "I'M GOING TO PROVE THIS THROUGH A MIRACLE."
• 13:50 HE INVOKES A MIRACLE AND HE SAYS, "IF I'M RIGHT, LET THE RIVER PROVE IT."
• 13:56 AND THEY HEAR THIS GREAT RUMBLING AND THEY LOOK OUTSIDE
• 14:00 AND THE RIVER IS FLOWING BACKWARDS AND THE RABBIS ADMIT THIS IS A MIRACLE,
• 14:04 BUT THEY TURN TO RABBI ELIEZER AND THEY SAY TO HIM,
• 14:07 "SORRY, RABBI ELIEZER, WE DON'T LISTEN TO RIVERS."
• 14:10 HE INVOKES ANOTHER MIRACLE.
• 14:12 HE SAYS, "IF I'M RIGHT, LET THE TREES PROVE IT."
• 14:14 AND THERE'S A MIRACLE THAT THE TREES FLYING IN THE AIR, BEING RIPPED OUT OF THE GROUND.
• 14:17 THEY LOOK AT THIS, THEY RECOGNIZE THIS IS A MIRACLE AND THEY SAY,
• 14:20 "SORRY, RABBI ELIEZER, WE DON'T LISTEN TO TREES."
• 14:23 HE DOES A THIRD MIRACLE.
• 14:25 HE SAYS, "IF I'M RIGHT, LET THE WALLS OF THE ACADEMY CAVE IN."
• 14:27 AND THEY AGAIN RECOGNIZED THIS AS A GENUINE MIRACLE.
• 14:29 "SORRY, RABBI ELIEZER, WE DON'T LISTEN TO WALLS."
• 14:32 OK, VALID, VALID COME BACK.
• 14:34 FINALLY HE SAYS, "IF I'M RIGHT, LET HEAVEN PROVE IT."
• 14:37 AND ACCORDING TO THE TALMUD, A VOICE CAME OUT FROM HEAVEN AND SAID,
• 14:41 "WHY DO YOU DISPUTE WITH MY SERVANT ELIEZER?
• 14:43 HE'S RIGHT IN EVERYTHING THAT HE SAYS."
• 14:45 AND THE RABBIS HEAR THIS AND RECOGNIZE THIS AS A HEAVENLY VOICE,
• 14:48 THAT THIS IS A FORM OF PROPHECY THAT'S COME DOWN.
• 14:52 BUT, THEY SAY, "SORRY RABBI ELIEZER, WE DON'T LISTEN TO HEAVEN."
• 14:56 WOW!
• 14:57 AND THEN THEY QUOTE A VERSE FROM SCRIPTURE, DEUTERONOMY 30
• 15:00 WHERE IT SAYS THAT THE TORAH IS NOT IN HEAVEN.
• 15:03 IF YOU LOOK THERE IN THE CONTEXT, WHAT IT'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT IS THAT
• 15:06 IT SAYS THE TORAH IS NOT ACROSS THE SEA OR IN HEAVEN;
• 15:11 IT'S IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART.
• 15:13 IT'S NOT TOO DIFFICULT. THERE'S NO EXCUSE NOT TO DO IT.
• 15:15 BUT, THEY TAKE THOSE THREE HEBREW WORDS, NOT IN HEAVEN
• 15:20 AND SAY WHAT THAT MEANS IS THE TORAH'S NOT IN HEAVEN
• 15:23 AND GOD HAS NO SAY IN HOW TO INTERPRET IT.
• 15:25 SO, THEY RECOGNIZE THIS IS A HEAVENLY VOICE,
• 15:28 THEY RECOGNIZE THIS HEAVENLY VOICE HAS DECLARED RABBI ELIEZER TO BE CORRECT,
• 15:32 BUT, GOD HAS NO SAY IN INTERPRETING SCRIPTURE.
• 15:34 AND I REMEMBER WHEN MY RABBI TOLD ME THIS STORY,
• 15:37 UP UNTIL THEN I REALLY, I WAS TORN INSIDE.
• 15:39 I HAD THESE DOUBTS ABOUT THE ORAL LAW AND THE WAY OF THE RABBIS,
• 15:43 BUT I WAS RAISED IN IT AND FOR GENERATIONS,
• 15:46 MANY OF MY ANCESTORS WERE TOP RABBIS AND SO IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO GIVE THAT UP.
• 15:52 BUT, WHEN I WAS TOLD THIS STORY, I TURNED TO MY RABBI
• 15:54 AND I GENUINELY THANKED HIM AND I SAID,
• 15:57 "THAT'S ALL I NEEDED TO HEAR. NOW I KNOW THIS IS NOT OF GOD."
• 16:01 THAT'S STRIKING, THAT CLERGYMEN WOULD SAY GOD DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY, WE DO.
• 16:08 IT'S REALLY THE ULTIMATE ENDOWMENT OF MAN
• 16:12 WITH AN AUTHORITY LITERALLY ABOVE THAT OF GOD.
• 16:15 IF A PROPHET COMES, THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO HIM
• 16:17 EVEN IF THEY RECOGNIZE HIM AS HAVING GENUINE PROPHECY
• 16:21 BECAUSE THEIR AUTHORITY IS ABSOLUTE ON EARTH.
• 16:24 NO WONDER WHEN THE PROPHETS CAME, THEY DID NOT LISTEN.
• 16:27 THEY DIDN'T LISTEN WHEN JESUS CAME.
• 16:29 AT LEAST HE WAS A REVOLUTIONARY RABBI, BUT THEY DIDN'T LISTEN.
• 16:33 WHY DO THEY WALK AROUND IN THESE BLACK COSTUMES?
• 16:38 IN JERUSALEM YOU SEE A WHOLE LOT OF THEM.
• 16:41 I REALLY FEEL SORRY FOR THEM FIRST OF ALL.
• 16:45 BECAUSE THEY'RE WEARING 3 OR 4 LAYERS AND THE JERUSALEM HEAT IT'S JUST OPPRESSING.
• 16:49 YAH, THEY WEAR THESE HUGE FUR HATS FROM RUSSIA IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY.
• 16:53 WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM?
• 16:54 IT'S A VERY INTERESTING HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCE HOW THAT CAME ABOUT.
• 16:58 THERE WAS AN HISTORICAL PERIOD IN THE 1800S CALLED THE EMANCIPATION.
• 17:02 UP UNTIL THE EMANCIPATION, IF YOU DIDN'T AGREE WITH THE WAY OF THE RABBIS,
• 17:07 WITH THE TALMUD, YOU HAD TWO CHOICES.
• 17:09 YOU COULD BE QUIET AND SAY NOTHING ABOUT IT AND JUST SUFFER THROUGH IT
• 17:12 OR YOU COULD SPEAK OUT AND IF YOU SPOKE OUT, YOU WOULD BE EXCOMMUNICATED.
• 17:16 WHAT DID THAT MEAN TO BE EXCOMMUNICATED?
• 17:18 IT MEANT THAT YOU WERE LITERALLY PUSHED OUTSIDE THE WALL OF THE GHETTO.
• 17:21 JEWS LIVED IN A PHYSICAL GHETTO AND YOU WERE PUSHED OUTSIDE THE WALL
• 17:24 AND ANYBODY OUTSIDE THE GHETTO HAD TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
• 17:26 A GENTILE ANYWAY.
• 17:28 OH, YOU HAD TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY.
• 17:29 OH, OH. QUITE LITERALLY.
• 17:31 OH, YOU DID.
• 17:33 YOU WERE FORCED BY THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN RUSSIA TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY.
• 17:35 WHAT THEY CALL CHRISTIANITY.
• 17:37 WHAT THE ORTHODOX, RUSSIAN ORTHODOX WAY OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 17:41 MEANING YOU COULD BE QUIET ABOUT IT OR YOU COULD BE FORCIBLY CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY.
• 17:45 WHAT HAPPENED IS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, WHO'S GOT A PRETTY BAD RAP IN HISTORY,
• 17:49 BUT HE WAS IN SOME WAYS A PRETTY GOOD GUY, CAME AND SWEPT THROUGH EUROPE
• 17:54 AND HE PHYSICALLY TORE DOWN THE WALLS OF THE GHETTO.
• 17:56 NOW THERE WERE NO MORE WALLS.
• 17:58 SO, IF YOU SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE RABBIS, NOTHING HAPPENED.
• 18:01 THERE WAS NO GHETTO TO PUSH OUT OF.
• 18:03 HE REALLY IN MANY RESPECTS BROUGHT ABOUT A CERTAIN RELIGIOUS,
• 18:08 NOT REALLY FREEDOM OF RELIGION, BUT RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE THAT HADN'T EXISTED BEFORE.
• 18:11 AFTER NAPOLEON IS DEFEATED, THIS EMANCIPATION REALLY TAKES OFF
• 18:16 AND JEWS ARE SAYING OBVIOUSLY THIS NOT OF GOD, WHAT THE RABBIS ARE SAYING.
• 18:21 I THINK WE ENDED UP TAKING IT A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR,
• 18:25 ENDED UP THROWING OUT THE WHOLE BABY WITH THE BATH WATER.
• 18:28 THEY STARTED BASICALLY SHUTTING OFF ALL RELIGION IS WHAT THEY ENDED UP DOING.
• 18:34 WHAT HAPPENED IS THE RABBIS REACTED TO THAT, THEY SAID,
• 18:37 OH, YOU'RE GOING SHUT OFF YOUR HEAD COVERING
• 18:40 AND YOU'RE GOING TO START WEARING WESTERN CLOTHING?
• 18:43 WELL THE CLOTHING WE'RE WEARING RIGHT NOW, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP WEARING THAT.
• 18:46 THIS IS JEWISH CLOTHING.
• 18:48 SO, WHAT HAPPENED IS THE CLOTHING THEY WERE WEARING IN THE 1800S WAS FROZEN IN TIME
• 18:52 AND YOU CAN GO AND LOOK AT A LATE 18TH CENTURY POLISH NOBLEMAN
• 18:57 AND YOU FEEL YOU'RE IN MEA SHEARIM, THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX NEIGHBORHOOD OF JERUSALEM
• 19:02 BECAUSE THIS WAS JUST THE CLOTHING THAT ALL THE PEOPLE IN THAT PERIOD WORE.
• 19:06 THE ONLY THING IS THE RABBIS HAVE NOW FROZEN THIS CLOTHING IN TIME
• 19:09 AND WHAT I THINK IS SAD ABOUT THIS IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE THINK, WHAT DOES A JEW LOOK LIKE,
• 19:16 THEY THINK OF THIS BLACK CLOTHING WITH THE BLACK HAT OR THE BLACK FUR HAT
• 19:21 AND TO ME THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW.
• 19:26 TO ME WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A JEW IS THERE'S A COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND ISRAEL
• 19:32 AND IT MEANS TO FOLLOW THAT COVENANT,
• 19:34 WHICH IS WHAT THE CHRISTIANS CALL THE OLD TESTAMENT,
• 19:36 WHAT WE CALL THE TANACH OR THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND NOT TO WEAR A CERTAIN TYPE OF DRESS.
• 19:42 I HAD A SABBATH DINNER ONCE IN AN ORTHODOX HOME HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 19:46 AND I GREW UP AS A CONSERVATIVE JEW.
• 19:50 WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE SABBATH DINNERS AND SO ON.
• 19:52 THIS WAS QUITE FORMAL, RUBBING BREAD IN SALT AND MANY BLESSINGS.
• 19:57 WELL, I WENT ALONG WITH EVERYTHING,
• 20:00 BUT THERE WERE HANDWASHINGS, RITUAL HANDWASHINGS.
• 20:03 WE'D ALL GET UP AND TREK TO THE KITCHEN AND STAND IN LINE AND WASH
• 20:08 AND I REMEMBER AT ONE POINT MY HOST SAID THERE IS NO SNICKERING ON THE SABBATH.
• 20:13 OK, I MEAN, IT JUST STRUCK ME AS ALMOST FUNNY.
• 20:16 IT WAS JOKING--
• 20:18 EVERYBODY WAS DRESSED TO KILL, ONE LITTLE FAMILY.
• 20:21 IT'S VERY EXHAUSTING.
• 20:24 I REMEMBER GROWING UP, THANK GOD WE HAD SUNDAY
• 20:27 BECAUSE AFTER ALL THE SYNAGOGUE AND THE MEALS AND EVERYTHING,
• 20:30 YOU WERE EXHAUSTED SATURDAY NIGHT.
• 20:32 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 20:34 THIS SABBATH DINNER WAS WORK, ESPECIALLY.
• 20:36 AND THERE IS THREE MEALS THAT THEY HAVE EVERY SHABBAT.
• 20:38 THREE OF THESE RITUAL MEALS AND YOU GO TO SYNAGOGUE THREE TIMES, IT'S VERY EXHAUSTING.
• 20:43 AND THEN MY HOSTESS SAID, LATER THE HOST SAID SHE CAN'T HAVE SAID IT,
• 20:49 BUT I REMEMBER IT BECAUSE I WAS SO SHOCKED.
• 20:52 SHE WAS READING FROM A PRAYER BOOK, BUT READING LIKE AN AUCTIONEER.
• 20:55 I MEAN, READING (SOUND OF FAST MOTOR)
• 20:58 SHE HAD A LONG, WHEN YOU SAID OF RITUAL PRAYERS,
• 21:01 ENDLESS PRAYERS, THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS DOING.
• 21:03 JESUS SAID,AVOID VAIN REPETITIONS.
• 21:06 SHE WAS ON AND ON AND ON AND I SAID TO HER WHEN SHE'S DONE,
• 21:12 DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT HASHEM, THEY CALL GOD THE NAME, HASHEM,
• 21:17 DO YOU REALLY THINK HASHEM APPRECIATES THE WAY YOU READ THOSE PRAYERS A MILE A MINUTE.
• 21:24 SHE SAID TO ME, I DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE IN HASHEM.
• 21:28 I JUST NEED TO READ THESE PRAYERS.
• 21:30 THAT'S SOMETHING YOU WILL HEAR FROM SOME ORTHODOX JEWS.
• 21:33 IT KIND OF WRAPS UP WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
• 21:35 WHAT YOU DO IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
• 21:37 YOU DESCRIBED JEWS--
• 21:41 THERE'S A CARTOON UP IN OUR OFFICE THAT SHOWS A BUNCH OF RABBIS ARE ARGUING WITH JESUS
• 21:48 AND THEY ARE SAYING, "WE GET OUR SALVATION THE OLD FASHIONED WAY, WE EARN IT."
• 21:53 THAT'S VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE THE PHARISAIC RABBINIC APPROACH IS THAT WHEN YOU DIE,
• 22:01 YOU GO UP TO HEAVEN AND THERE ARE SCALES AND YOUR ACTIONS ARE WEIGHED IN THE SCALES.
• 22:07 ALL YOUR GOOD ACTIONS GO ON ONE SIDE AND ALL YOUR SINS GO ON THE OTHER SIDE
• 22:12 AND WHICH EVER BALANCE IS WEIGHTIER
• 22:16 AND THEY EVEN TALK ABOUT HOW SOME ACTIONS ARE PRORATED,
• 22:20 THEY HAVE MORE VALUE AND SOME HAVE LESS VALUE,
• 22:22 BUT WHICH EVER ONE WEIGHS MORE, THAT DECIDES WHETHER YOU GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL.
• 22:27 WE HAVE TO DO CERTAIN THINGS, BUT WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING THEM MECHANICALLY.
• 22:31 WE SHOULD BE DOING THEM OUT OF LOVE AND OUT OF FEAR OF THE CREATOR
• 22:35 AND NOT JUST IN ORDER TO FULFILL THAT OBLIGATION.
• 22:39 THE BOOK OF JAMES SAYS WITHOUT WORKS, FAITH IS DEAD.
• 22:43 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU DO HAVE TO DO ACTIONS.
• 22:46 EZEKIEL 18 IT TALKS ABOUT HOW
• 22:48 HE DESCRIBES A PERSON WHO SPENDS HIS WHOLE LIFE AS A SINNER
• 22:51 AND HE REPENTS AND IT SAYS ALL OF HIS SINS SHALL NO LONGER BE REMEMBERED.
• 22:58 THEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE CASE; A PERSON WHO IS RIGHTEOUS HIS WHOLE LIFE,
• 23:02 BUT THEN TURNS AWAY AND TURNS TO WICKEDNESS,
• 23:05 IT SAYS HIS RIGHTEOUS ACTIONS WILL NO LONGER BE REMEMBERED.
• 23:08 THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL RESPOND TO EZEKIEL AND THEY SAY THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL,
• 23:13 WHICH CAN BE TRANSLATED AS IT'S NOT FAIR OR IT'S NOT BALANCED OUT.
• 23:17 BECAUSE THEY ARE THINKING OF THE SCALES THAT,
• 23:20 WELL I DID 5,000 RIGHTEOUS ACTS AND I KILLED THREE PEOPLE.
• 23:24 WELL, THE 5,000 RIGHTEOUS ACTS WEIGH MORE AND GOD SAYS, "NO, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
• 23:28 IF YOU ARE LONGER FAITHFUL TO ME AND YOU TURN AWAY TO SIN,
• 23:32 ALL THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS YOU DID YOUR WHOLE LIFE ARE MEANINGLESS."
• 23:36 YOU KNOW WHAT COMES TO MIND IS THE THIEF BEING EXECUTED WITH JESUS
• 23:41 WHO EVIDENTLY HAS BEEN A CRIMINAL HIS WHOLE LIFE,
• 23:44 BUT AT THE LAST MOMENT SAYS REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM
• 23:47 AND JESUS SAYS, TODAY WILL YOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.
• 23:51 IT'S EXACTLY AN ILLUSTRATION OF EZEKIEL.
• 23:53 IT'S FASCINATING TO TALK TO YOU, IT REALLY IS.
• 23:57 YOU'VE STRETCHED MY MIND.
• 23:59 THESE SCALES, SINCE YOU USED THAT TERM, I'M TOLD THAT THEY HAVE THAT SAME THING IN ISLAM.
• 24:05 AND IN CATHOLICISM, AS WELL.
• 24:07 THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA OF PURGATORY.
• 24:09 PURGATORY GETS YOU OUT IF THE SCALES BALANCE OUT.
• 24:12 IN ORTHODOX JUDAISM I WAS TAUGHT THAT IF THE SCALES BALANCE OUT,
• 24:17 THEN THE SOUL IS SENT DOWN TO THE EARTH IN ORDER TO TRY TO PERFORM ONE MORE RIGHTEOUS ACT
• 24:21 TO TIP THE SCALES. TO TIP THE SCALES.
• 24:23 THAT IDEA GOES BACK TO ANCIENT EGYPT.
• 24:26 THE EARTH MUST FULL OF IT.
• 24:27 THAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE ODD PEOPLE DOING GOOD THINGS.
• 24:29 WELL, THIS IS ACTUALLY AN ANCIENT PAGAN IDEA
• 24:32 THAT GOES BACK TO ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION.
• 24:34 WHAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS LITERALLY A SCALE THAT
• 24:38 IN THE AFTERLIFE THE PERSON'S ACTIONS WOULD BE WEIGHED
• 24:41 AND YOU DON'T FIND THAT IDEA IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES ANYWHERE.
• 24:44 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THE BELIEVER IS EXONERATED FROM JUDGMENT,
• 24:50 THAT IS, THE SCALES ARE ERASED.
• 24:51 HE DOESN'T GO TO TRIAL.
• 24:53 IN THE MUSLIM, THE WAY IT WAS TOLD TO ME, IF HE COMMITS A RIGHTEOUS ACT LIKE JIHAD,
• 24:59 KILLS THE UNBELIEVER, THE SCALES ARE--,
• 25:02 THIS WAS THE REASON GIVEN TO ME
• 25:04 WHY THE FELLAS WEREN'T AFRAID TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
• 25:07 BECAUSE THEY GOT RID OF THEIR SCALES,
• 25:09 ALSO THE REASON THEY WERE FOOLING AROUND THE WEEK BEFORE
• 25:12 AS IT'S REPUTED WITH LAP DANCERS IN THEIR HOTEL ROOMS AS HOLY AS THEY SEEM TO BE.
• 25:17 BECAUSE THIS WOULD ALL BE ERASED AND NO RECORD OF IT.
• 25:20 YOU MAKE ME THINK WHEN YOU TALK. IT'S TERRIFIC.
• 25:26 A READER OF SCRIPTURE IS ALWAYS WISE, THAT'S WHAT I'VE DISCOVERED IN ALL MY INTERVIEWS.
• 25:33 IT'S A PLEASURE TO TALK TO YOU NEHEMIA.
• 25:36 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
• 25:37 THANKS FOR SHARING.
• 25:39 WELL, THERE'S A MAN WHO READS THE SCRIPTURE.
• 25:42 HE DOESN'T ADD TO IT OR TAKE AWAY FROM IT.
• 25:44 AGAIN, I STRESS, I MEAN I WENT THROUGH HEBREW SCHOOL AND I WAS BAR MITZVAHED.
• 25:49 I WENT THROUGH SUNDAY SCHOOL AND I WAS CONFIRMED.
• 25:51 I STAYED IN THE SYNAGOGUE AFTER MY BAR MITZVAH.
• 25:54 I WAS A SINGER IN THE CHOIR.
• 25:56 I WAS FINALLY CONDUCTOR OF A CHOIR AND I WAS ALWAYS HUNGRY
• 26:00 AND WHAT I WAS HUNGRY FOR WAS THE WORD, OF COURSE.
• 26:03 IT'S DESCRIBED AS FOOD IN REVELATION.
• 26:05 IT SAYS "EAT THE WORD" AND MY FELLOW JEWS WHO ARE NOT READING SCRIPTURE,
• 26:13 SIMPLY ARE ALL HUNGRY. THEY HAVE TO BE.
• 26:16 THEY GO OFF INTO LAW RATHER.
• 26:18 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ISLAM OR MORMONS OR CATHOLICS.
• 26:21 IT'S EASY TO MAKE UP BUNCHES OF LAWS AND THEN DO THOSE LAWS AND CALL THAT YOUR RELIGION.
• 26:26 IT MAY BE YOUR RELIGION, BUT IT'S NOT YOUR FAITH.
• 26:29 FAITH IS ANOTHER MATTER.
• 26:31 FAITH IS BELIEF IN THINGS NOT SEEN AS IT SAYS IN HEBREWS 11:1
• 26:34 AND FOR THAT YOU NEED TO READ ABOUT THEM IF YOU CAN'T SEE THEM.
• 26:37 YOU NEED TO STUDY THEM IN WORDS ON A PAGE SOMEHOW.
• 26:40 WHAT ALL CAN I SAY ABOUT THIS MAN.
• 26:43 HE'S NOT SAVED AS YOU HEARD.
• 26:46 BUT, THAT CALLS FOR A CLOSE READING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 26:50 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.