Caption transcript for Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel) (2021): “Entering the Promised Land” (4/8)

• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with insightful Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif. We travel to Jericho
• 00:14 today on "Eretz Israel," "The Land of Israel."
• 00:16 ♪♪♪
• 00:25 narrator: "Look to the North, the South,
• 00:31 the East, the West."
• 00:35 ♪♪♪
• 00:42 narrator: "All the land which thou seest,
• 00:44 to thee will I give it and to thy seed forever.
• 00:50 Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither
• 00:54 slumber nor sleep."
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• 01:03 narrator: "Eretz Israel."
• 01:05 ♪♪♪
• 01:13 David: We're so glad you've joined us today.
• 01:14 I'm David Hart.
• 01:16 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:17 Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:19 Did you ever hear that life's a journey?
• 01:21 Well, indeed, it is.
• 01:24 Here, we're looking at the first steps of the journey of the
• 01:27 Hebrew nation in the land of Israel.
• 01:29 First stop: Jericho, yes? Kirsten: Oh, I have a song.
• 01:33 David: I do too.
• 01:34 ♪ Then Joshua fought the battle of Jericho. ♪♪
• 01:36 I know it's been in our head this whole time.
• 01:39 David: Second grade I learned about the battle of Jericho,
• 01:41 long time ago.
• 01:42 Still, lots to learn today.
• 01:44 Jeffrey: It's a famous story. People tell it.
• 01:46 We show it. We take you there.
• 01:49 You're gonna love it.
• 01:50 Kirsten: You do, and you were driving--you had to drive
• 01:53 through the wilderness, part wilderness, to get there.
• 01:54 We saw that-- we see that.
• 01:56 Jeffrey: Ah, listen, no problem. They had to walk.
• 01:58 Kirsten: You're right.
• 01:59 Jeffrey: They didn't have the Rover.
• 02:01 David: Speaking of, we're gonna see you driving
• 02:03 your white Range Rover in Jericho.
• 02:06 Jeffrey: Yes, and we were roving around all right
• 02:09 to places off the beaten path.
• 02:12 David: That's right. Let's go to Israel, right now.
• 02:18 narrator: "These are the words which Moses spoke
• 02:20 to all Israel: 'The Lord our God's spoken to us in Horeb,
• 02:26 saying, "Behold, I have set the land before you.
• 02:30 Go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your
• 02:33 fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
• 02:37 to give unto thee and to their seed after them."
• 02:41 And the Lord said unto me, "Lift up thine eyes westward
• 02:46 and northward and southward and eastward,
• 02:49 and behold it with thine eyes.
• 02:53 But charge Joshua, and encourage him,
• 02:56 and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people,
• 03:01 and he shall cause them to inherit the land
• 03:03 which thou shall see."'"
• 03:10 Jeffrey: We call him Moshe Rabbenu,
• 03:13 "Moses our Teacher."
• 03:15 But he wasn't just a teacher; he was a guide.
• 03:17 He led hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Jewish people
• 03:21 through a barren wasteland en route to a Promised Land.
• 03:26 And here we are at that wasteland and here
• 03:29 we're going to that Promised Land.
• 03:32 As Bible readers know that he went to it by way of a place
• 03:35 called Jericho, we're gonna find it,
• 03:38 get a little help with the GPS.
• 03:39 We're gonna make our way as we walk in the footsteps of Moses
• 03:43 en route to the Promised Land.
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• 04:17 Jeffrey: In the decades and many despaired,
• 04:20 Moses kept going because the Lord had spoken and given him
• 04:23 a particular vision.
• 04:26 A particular vision for a particular people taking
• 04:29 residency in a particular place.
• 04:32 Let me show it to you on a map here.
• 04:34 Get a good look at this.
• 04:36 They left Mit Ghamr Egypt.
• 04:38 It's off the map right here
• 04:41 and they made their way to Ha'Sinai, Sinai.
• 04:43 It's off the map here still.
• 04:45 And then they came up to Kadesh Barnea,
• 04:47 after which they wandered for approaching four decades and,
• 04:50 after wandering in the wilderness,
• 04:52 they finally are here en route to Jericho where they're gonna
• 04:56 make their way into what's called the Promised Land.
• 05:01 And why is it called the Promised Land?
• 05:02 Because God promised it to a particular people.
• 05:06 The borders are delineated clearly.
• 05:09 You have the Great Sea, the Mediterranean,
• 05:11 the River of Egypt.
• 05:13 Noted is the Dead Sea, the Jordan River,
• 05:16 going up toward the Euphrates and extending eastward.
• 05:20 This is actually a conservative map.
• 05:21 There's a cogent argument we're moving eastward still.
• 05:25 In any case, we wanna take a look at this land,
• 05:28 what the Bible says about it.
• 05:30 We hear a lot of it in the press.
• 05:32 Let's see if we can be impressed by the biblical text.
• 05:35 Come with me. Let's go have a talk in Jericho.
• 05:45 Jeffrey: Well, there's a map and there's a map.
• 05:47 Today, individuals are fond of speaking of the road map for
• 05:51 peace and, typically, those that are engaged in the road map for
• 05:55 peace are simply looking to carve up Israel,
• 05:58 piece by piece by piece.
• 06:01 I look at the Bible as something of a road map and therein it
• 06:04 delineates clearly, what God's will is,
• 06:08 what his ways are, what his intentions
• 06:11 are for people and places, and it is so explicit.
• 06:16 It's not even a tacit inference. It's noted very clearly.
• 06:20 In fact, in Exodus chapter 32, Moses is on record petitioning
• 06:25 God, reminding him of his own promise noted to the patriarchs,
• 06:30 to Avraham, to Yizhaq, and Ya'aqoz--
• 06:33 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--saying,
• 06:35 quote, in chapter 32, verse 13: "I'll multiply your descendants
• 06:39 as the stars; and all this land that I have spoken I will give
• 06:45 to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever."
• 06:50 Let me ask you a question.
• 06:51 How long do you think "forever" is?
• 06:56 Seems to me that forever is, like, a really long time.
• 07:02 What is this land that's vouchsafed to the children of
• 07:05 Israel that they are to have forever?
• 07:08 Well, there are various references to the borders I
• 07:10 showed you on the map.
• 07:12 Now let me show you on the biblical map because it's noted
• 07:14 very, very clearly.
• 07:17 If you'll go, it's called bamidbar which means
• 07:19 "in the wilderness," and it's a fitting title.
• 07:22 As you can see, we're out here in the wilderness,
• 07:24 very arid, very dry.
• 07:26 And the children of Israel, according to the biblical text,
• 07:29 went on a long and arduous journey en route to the land
• 07:32 that's called the Promised Land, that is vouchsafed to
• 07:36 generations of Jews in perpetuity forever,
• 07:39 according to the text.
• 07:42 The boundaries, as I showed you in the map, are delineated.
• 07:45 In chapter 34 of Numbers we're told:
• 07:48 "The Lord spoke to Moses."
• 07:50 Notice, it's the Lord spoke; it's not a secretary of state
• 07:54 spoke, it's not a president spoke,
• 07:56 it's not the United Nations, commonly referred to as the
• 08:00 United Nothing spoke.
• 08:02 It is, "The Lord spoke saying,
• 08:04 'Command the children of Israel.'"
• 08:06 The language is very strong.
• 08:08 "Command," it sounds somewhat forceful to me.
• 08:11 "And say, 'When you come
• 08:12 into the land of Kena'an, Canaan,'"
• 08:16 and the first stop here is Jericho where there was a battle
• 08:18 royal played out, and we know how God miraculously enabled
• 08:23 them to have success in that conflagration.
• 08:25 He says, "When you come into the land,
• 08:27 this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance."
• 08:33 Note again, the language.
• 08:34 It's not just a battle for now; it's a battle for tomorrow
• 08:39 in no uncertain terms.
• 08:42 He says, "When you come into the land that will fall to you as an
• 08:45 inheritance, the land of Canaan,"
• 08:47 and then he goes to its boundaries.
• 08:50 And then the literature is explicit in noting the
• 08:53 boundaries that I showed you on the map.
• 08:56 Now, at the risk of sounding negative and it's not like the
• 09:02 heat is getting to me out here, but let me say,
• 09:05 as clear as it is that this land is committed to a particular
• 09:09 people, I'm clueless at one level how reasoning Bible people
• 09:15 just don't seem to get it.
• 09:17 Makes no sense to me at one level.
• 09:19 There must be some kind of blindness over the eyes
• 09:22 of some Bible readers.
• 09:24 Jews are forever being accused of having a blindness.
• 09:26 They read the Bible and they can't see it.
• 09:29 Well, to me, it isn't just a question of why Jews can't see
• 09:32 things about Jesus in the Bible; it's why Jesus people can't see
• 09:37 things about Jews in the Bible, like the fact that there is a
• 09:41 particular people that's given a particular place.
• 09:44 Frankly, at the risk of sounding overly pessimistic,
• 09:48 this is a series I shouldn't even have to make.
• 09:50 It is just so simple, it is so one-plus-one-equal-two,
• 09:54 and that is that God gave this land to the Jew.
• 09:58 And the story is played out rather dramatically after
• 10:01 spending many, many years in the wilderness,
• 10:04 the children of Israel began their conquest of Canaan.
• 10:08 Leaving the base camp, they have a struggle
• 10:12 at Jericho right behind me.
• 10:14 And then there's a campaign to the south.
• 10:16 It'll go up north and the end result will be is that the main
• 10:21 backbone of Canaanite resistance will be broken,
• 10:24 enabling the children of Israel to take their inheritance.
• 10:29 Friends, if we read the Bible, if we believe the Bible,
• 10:33 let's stand up for what the Bible says and support the
• 10:37 Jewish bid for residency here in the ancestral homeland.
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• 12:18 narrator: "For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good
• 12:21 land: a land of fig trees and pomegranates,
• 12:26 a land of olive oil and honey.
• 12:30 Arise, walk through the land, for all the land which thou
• 12:35 seest, to thee will I give it and to thy seed forever."
• 12:43 Worship in the shadows of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• 12:49 Behold the land of the covenant.
• 12:59 Kirsten: Jeff was on location in the ancient city of Jericho
• 13:03 and we take tours to Israel two times a year.
• 13:05 We don't go into the ancient city of Jericho, where Jeff was.
• 13:09 We drive by it on our ascent up to Jerusalem,
• 13:13 and that beautiful area is filled--
• 13:16 you've gotta go see this.
• 13:17 Filled with date palm trees.
• 13:19 I mean, it's just kind of like a mirage of beautiful palm trees
• 13:23 in the ancient city of Jericho.
• 13:24 David: And many of you have joined us on tour.
• 13:26 If you haven't, please consider joining us on a tour to Israel.
• 13:30 It'll change your life.
• 13:31 Also, we just wanna say thank you so much for helping us to
• 13:35 get to Israel where we produce our dramatic re-enactments,
• 13:39 we send Dr. Seif on location.
• 13:41 We could not send you there without your help.
• 13:45 Jeffrey: Yeah, so you say,
• 13:47 "Okay, Jeffrey, go on location. You go there."
• 13:49 David: Yes, I know you love it.
• 13:51 Jeffrey: I do, and--
• 13:52 Kirsten: It's pricey to send you there.
• 13:53 Jeffrey: It is, and I love that you do and I hope
• 13:55 that you love the doing, to tell you the truth.
• 13:57 Not me, but just looking at the Bible land through a Jewish
• 14:01 perspective and to take people there,
• 14:04 it really is rather unique, we think, what we do.
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• 14:11 Kirsten: Good word.
• 14:12 David: David Dolan is our historian for this whole series.
• 14:15 We take you there right now to Tel Aviv,
• 14:18 to Independence Hall.
• 14:19 Let's go now.
• 14:23 Jeffrey: The backdrop this week to our continued story of
• 14:25 the modern state of Israel is the historic Independence Hall
• 14:30 in Tel Aviv.
• 14:32 Here's David Dolan.
• 14:35 David Dolan: I'm standing in Independence Hall in Tel Aviv
• 14:38 where the state of Israel was declared in 1948.
• 14:41 But much happened in the years before that that led
• 14:44 to that historic moment.
• 14:45 In 1931 the Arab leader of the land,
• 14:48 Haj Amin Husayni, held a pan Islamic conference,
• 14:51 bringing Muslims from around the region where they declared there
• 14:54 will be no Jewish state here in the land.
• 14:57 Two years later, a man named Adolf Hitler came to power in
• 15:00 German, soon after writing "Mein Kampf," where he declared that
• 15:03 all the Jews of Europe would be slaughtered.
• 15:06 Two hundred and fifty thousand Jewish refugees fled Germany
• 15:09 during the 1930s and came here to live in the land.
• 15:13 As the numbers increased, the Muslim resistance increased as
• 15:16 well, and in 1936 an Arab general strike was held.
• 15:21 Eighty Jews were killed in rioting throughout the land.
• 15:24 As a result of that, the British held a conference and decided to
• 15:28 partition the land into an Arab and a Jewish state,
• 15:31 no longer promising to fulfill the mandate's call for just a
• 15:34 Jewish state west of the Jordan River.
• 15:37 Soon after that, another general strike broke out in 1938.
• 15:41 More Jews were killed, more Arabs were killed.
• 15:44 The Arabs here felt for sure that Hitler would launch a war
• 15:47 on Europe and would be victorious,
• 15:49 and they would never have to put up with a Jewish state here.
• 15:52 In 1939, as a result of that violence,
• 15:55 the British issued something called "The White Paper"
• 15:57 at a conference in London.
• 15:59 It proposed a binational state
• 16:01 in which the Jews would be a minority.
• 16:04 Only 75,000 more Jews would be let into the land after
• 16:07 that and then no more.
• 16:10 Well, the Jews realized this was a recipe for disaster.
• 16:13 They would probably be killed by the Arab minority,
• 16:15 a majority here in the land.
• 16:17 Nevertheless, they accepted this plan.
• 16:19 Later that same year, Hitler invaded Poland
• 16:22 and World War II began.
• 16:24 It would be a disaster for the Jewish people.
• 16:27 The Holocaust would take the lives of 6-million Jews.
• 16:31 Few Jews in the land here believed what they were hearing,
• 16:34 that this mass slaughter was taking place.
• 16:37 Meanwhile, German General Rommel was on his way to Palestine with
• 16:41 the goal of driving the Jews out of the land and taking the Holy
• 16:45 Land for Germany.
• 16:46 It didn't happen.
• 16:48 His forces were stopped in Egypt by Allied Forces which,
• 16:51 by now, included the United States.
• 16:53 That was in July of 1942.
• 16:56 During the War, Winston Churchill promised the Jews a
• 16:59 state, despite the White Paper and they fought with him and
• 17:03 helped him in his war effort.
• 17:05 By 1947, the British wanted out of this conflict.
• 17:09 Following the War, the new government in London went back
• 17:12 on that promise of a Jewish state,
• 17:14 again proposing a binational state.
• 17:17 Attacks were launched against British positions here in the
• 17:20 land by various Jewish groups.
• 17:22 Trains were blown up and other things.
• 17:24 In Cairo, Haj Amin Husayni was organizing an Arab army to take
• 17:27 the land after the War.
• 17:29 In November of 1947, the UN voted to partition the land into
• 17:34 a Jewish and Arab state.
• 17:35 The Jewish state would be in three different parts.
• 17:39 It was a recipe for disaster,
• 17:41 and yet it was still accepted by the Jews.
• 17:44 And yet, the state of Israel was born.
• 17:47 In this hall, May 14, 1948, this Declaration of Independence was
• 17:52 signed by David Ben-Gurion and 18 other delegates.
• 17:55 The state of Israel was born.
• 17:57 [speaking foreign language]
• 18:21 Jeffrey: We're here courtesy of the Israeli army,
• 18:23 literally, that gave us access to a base that's right at the
• 18:26 corner where we have Jordan on one end,
• 18:29 Syria on the other, and Israel.
• 18:32 Goodness, what a place and what
• 18:33 a struggle to get to this place, yes, David?
• 18:36 David Dolan: Oh, absolutely.
• 18:37 We're at the southern end of the Golan Heights where we had
• 18:39 intense battles in 1967, intense battles in 1973.
• 18:44 This position and many other Israeli positions were overrun
• 18:48 by the Syrians in that war.
• 18:50 And you know, we have these three countries that have also
• 18:52 had other struggles.
• 18:53 Syria and Jordan have had near civil war--
• 18:57 near a war a couple times.
• 18:59 Struggles between them as well.
• 19:01 We have a dispute over water going on: very little water.
• 19:04 We're here on a hot day and the three countries want it.
• 19:08 We have the Sea of Galilee right below which,
• 19:10 of course, is such a strategic freshwater reservoir for Israel,
• 19:14 and Syria would like it back and,
• 19:17 again, especially for an American audience,
• 19:19 we're talking about Syria being just a few miles here.
• 19:22 We're talking about Jordan being right behind us here as well.
• 19:25 These--we can literally see, and I'm looking down this way
• 19:28 towards the valley below where there's Israeli communities.
• 19:31 We can see communities from the three countries right here,
• 19:34 meeting together in this little space and,
• 19:37 of course, countries--Jordan and Israel have a peace pact,
• 19:40 but with Syria, certainly no peace at all there.
• 19:43 Jeffrey: Well, when I speak of--when I think of peace,
• 19:46 I'm reminded of a peace of God that comes from walking in a
• 19:48 covenant with God, and rolling the tape back thousands of
• 19:52 years, he spoke to Moses and he had a peace plan for planet
• 19:55 Earth and it entailed giving a certain people a certain parcel
• 19:58 of real estate, and here we stand.
• 20:00 It seems like it's prophecy being fulfilled with Israel
• 20:04 emerging amidst all these tensions.
• 20:06 David: It really is and, you know,
• 20:08 we had as part of the mandate given to Britain to help
• 20:12 establish a Jewish state--re-establish,
• 20:14 as you pointed out, because it was here in ancient times--
• 20:17 this area was meant to be part of that state.
• 20:19 And it was only because of a dispute between Britain and
• 20:21 France that it was handed over to France which then included it
• 20:25 in the mandate for Syria.
• 20:28 So there wouldn't have been this struggle on this particular
• 20:31 Heights if the original declaration after World War I
• 20:34 had been adhered to, but there was a lot of pressure that came
• 20:37 from the Arab world against that,
• 20:39 and so we had this struggle and, of course,
• 20:42 it's still going on today, the Syrians demanding that Israel
• 20:45 evacuate this plateau.
• 20:47 There is peace, as I said, between Jordan and Israel but
• 20:49 certainly not this other one.
• 20:51 And where it will end up, we don't know but the fact that
• 20:53 we're at a base and these guys are on the lookout all the time,
• 20:56 just illustrates that that battle still goes on.
• 21:00 Jeffrey: Yes, and I love to bring camera crews here and,
• 21:03 David, I'm glad you're here with us to explain it some.
• 21:06 With the Bible in view, I'm reminded when I look at this
• 21:09 gorgeous vista and I think of the tensions,
• 21:12 we're looking at real estate that was vouchsafed
• 21:14 to the Jewish people.
• 21:16 And I'm reminded as we stand here and as you remind us of
• 21:19 battles present and as I think of battles in Bible days,
• 21:23 I'm reminded of a struggle that goes back to the pages of the
• 21:26 biblical text, and it's all about establishing God's kingdom
• 21:29 plan here on earth as it is in heaven.
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• 23:41 Kirsten: That was our favorite Israeli actress and
• 23:44 musician, Hadar, singing Psalm 147.
• 23:47 She's gorgeous and the song is even more beautiful,
• 23:50 especially sung in Hebrew.
• 23:52 We love that language.
• 23:53 Jeffrey: Yeah, the Psalms are good in any language just to--
• 23:56 just worship the Lord.
• 23:58 It's beautiful.
• 23:59 David: Your teaching today is at Golan Heights.
• 24:01 We take tours there, and I love to watch our people as they're a
• 24:05 little nervous about being in that part of God's country.
• 24:09 Jeffrey: Yes, there's recent war stories there and there's
• 24:13 memorials to that effect.
• 24:14 And people know when they visit Israel that they're walking into
• 24:18 a modern miracle, with battles fought yesterday and things
• 24:21 raging in the news today, but it goes back millennia.
• 24:26 That land was vouchsafed to the Jewish people in perpetuity
• 24:30 going back to Bible days.
• 24:32 Kirsten: And the Golan Heights is all about the Sea of
• 24:34 Galilee, Lake Kinneret, water rights, isn't it?
• 24:37 Why people--so many people are fighting for that Golan Heights
• 24:40 because you have a height advantage but it's about that
• 24:42 water source for the land of Israel.
• 24:44 Jeffrey: Well, there's a military advantage
• 24:45 with height as well.
• 24:46 You wanna have your positions on the high ground.
• 24:48 They're more defensible, but certainly in that part of the
• 24:51 world, water is king.
• 24:53 Water is gold.
• 24:54 And with the sea there, and then the Jordan River,
• 24:58 yes, the water is a big player.
• 25:00 Kirsten: Right, and Golan Heights,
• 25:02 like you mentioned, some people are--
• 25:05 have trepidation, should I say.
• 25:07 Kirsten: Leery of going in the area but it's safe.
• 25:09 I mean, there's--there are hidden IDF soldiers
• 25:11 all over that area.
• 25:13 They keep it protected and safe.
• 25:15 Jeffrey: Yes, yes, there is.
• 25:17 And you know, people are always skittish, you know.
• 25:22 With the dozens and dozens of tours that I've led to Israel,
• 25:25 I've always encountered people who went there and their friends
• 25:30 are praying for them, they're just certain
• 25:32 they're gonna get blown up.
• 25:34 And then they go and they go, "Goodness gracious,
• 25:36 it's so peaceful and uneventful."
• 25:38 And it's interesting.
• 25:41 There's a chasm between the rhetoric and the reality.
• 25:44 It's safe to go.
• 25:45 David: Still prophecy being fulfilled
• 25:47 in that area, right now?
• 25:49 Jeffrey: Well, I believe so.
• 25:50 To be sure, just the resurrection of the modern
• 25:52 national state of Israel itself is prophetic.
• 25:54 If Jesus is going to come to Jews sang in Jerusalem,
• 25:58 "Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord," then there
• 26:01 has to be Jews in Jerusalem in order to say it.
• 26:04 And so, you know, Israel's re-emergence kind of clicked.
• 26:10 It sets the stopwatch and the timetable
• 26:12 for prophetic events, yes.
• 26:14 Kirsten: And as we progress, there is a saying in Israel:
• 26:17 "Never forget," and we should never forget the blood shed and
• 26:20 the lives that were lost to claim back the Golan Heights
• 26:24 where you were and all of that land.
• 26:26 The Jewish people have walked through bloodshed after
• 26:28 bloodshed after war.
• 26:30 They're fighting for that land, for that Promised Land.
• 26:32 Jeffrey: That's true.
• 26:33 The genesis of it is the Holocaust,
• 26:35 that is, after being beaten to a pulp,
• 26:38 not just by Hitler and his associates,
• 26:42 but it's been thousands of years through history.
• 26:45 You know, enough already.
• 26:47 And that mantra, "Never forget," prompted the spirited
• 26:54 representation in the national homeland of Israel and,
• 26:59 you know, when you're fighting for your wife and kids and for
• 27:02 your future, it's a little more than just signing up to join an
• 27:06 army to go overseas somewhere.
• 27:08 There's a lot more resolve there, to be sure.
• 27:10 David: And fighting is a good word,
• 27:11 but also a lot of prayer, that we even end our program with
• 27:15 every week, pray for the peace.
• 27:17 Jeffrey: Indeed we do, and it's prayers and cares
• 27:20 and shares that moves it all forward.
• 27:22 Kirsten: We're so thankful for all of your insight,
• 27:24 for your knowledge, your wisdom, in taking us to the land in this
• 27:28 series and we will take you to a song written by our founder,
• 27:33 Zola Levitt, after we pray this prayer
• 27:36 for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:37 Jeff, would you?
• 27:39 Jeffrey: Yes, "Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim."
• 27:40 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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