Caption transcript for She Shall Be Called Woman: “Mothers / Hannah” (2/8)

• 00:03 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:08 SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN
• 00:13 I CAME FORTH FROM A MAN...
• 00:13 BUT I FOUND FAVOR WITH HIM...
• 00:15 AND TRUE SUCCESS IS NOT MEASURED IN WEALTH AND POWER BUT IN THE ESTATE IN ONE'S HEART...
• 00:21 I'VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER AND MORE FULFILLED...
• 00:27 I RAISED HIM UP STRICTLY IN THE FAITH AND THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS...
• 00:29 AND NOW I WANT TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK...
• 00:31 I BELIEVE ELOHIM MEANT IT TO BE THIS WAY...
• 00:33 SHE'S STILL A CORNERSTONE OF WISDOM TO THE FAMILY...
• 00:36 BUT YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MY HEART...
• 00:55 MY SON,
• 00:57 I KNOW WE WERE TOGETHER ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME
• 01:01 BUT YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MY HEART.
• 01:04 I THINK OF YOU DAILY.
• 01:09 AND YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND NOW,
• 01:12 BUT I MADE A VOW TO YAHWEH
• 01:15 THAT IF HE WOULD TURN MY AFFLICTION
• 01:19 AND GIVE ME A SON
• 01:22 I WOULD GIVE THE CHILD BACK ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.
• 01:30 THAT IS WHY YOU LIVE IN THE HOUSE OF ELOHIM AND SERVE THE PRIESTS.
• 01:36 LISTEN CAREFULLY AND OBEY THEM
• 01:39 FOR IT IS THEIR CHARGE TO TEACH YOU THE WAYS OF YAHWEH.
• 01:45 SAMUEL, I WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR MOTHER AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY SON.
• 01:51 WEAR THIS TO KEEP YOU WARM
• 01:54 AND DO REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU ARE LONELY.
• 02:03 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 02:05 JEFFREY SEIF WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 02:07 SHALOM, WELCOME BACK.
• 02:08 WE'RE DOING WOMEN,
• 02:09 THE SERIES ABOUT WOMEN,
• 02:11 "THOU SHALT BE CALLED WOMAN".
• 02:12 WONDERFUL.
• 02:13 IT'S A GREAT STORY.
• 02:15 AND THIS STORY IS TOUCHING TODAY
• 02:17 AS WE LOOK AT HANNAH,
• 02:19 A WOMAN WHO WAS MISUNDERSTOOD BY MEN,
• 02:23 A WOMAN THAT WAS BETRAYED BY CIRCUMSTANCES
• 02:26 EVIDENCED BY HER BEING UNABLE TO BEAR A CHILD.
• 02:28 SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS,
• 02:30 THE GOOD NEWS IS GOD LOVED HER AND REDEEMED HER.
• 02:32 DIDN'T HE?
• 02:33 GOD GAVE HER MORE THAN WHAT SHE ASKED FOR.
• 02:35 SHE ASKED FOR JUST A SON.
• 02:37 HE GAVE HER SAMUEL, THE LAST JUDGE OF ISRAEL.
• 02:40 HE GAVE HER SAMUEL, MUCH MORE THAN WHAT SHE ASKED FOR.
• 02:43 THERE'S A JEWISH EXPRESSION THAT GOES,
• 02:45 "THAT EVEN WHEN THE GATES OF HEAVEN ARE CLOSED TO PRAYERS THEY'RE OPEN TO TEARS."
• 02:50 AND HERE'S A WOMAN WHO JUST PRIVATELY WAS SO CHAGRINED BY HER CIRCUMSTANCE
• 02:54 AND GOD MOVED INTO HER WORLD SO WONDERFULLY.
• 02:56 AND TOOK ALL HER CARES AWAY.
• 02:59 WE'RE GONNA SEE JEFF IN ISRAEL TEACHING ABOUT HANNAH.
• 03:04 AS THE BOOK OF 1ST SAMUEL, OR
• 03:05 "Shmuel" BEGINS,
• 03:07 "Yerushalayim", JERUSALEM,
• 03:09 IS IN THE HANDS OF THE "Yevusi",
• 03:10 THE JEBUSITES.
• 03:12 DAVID IS SOON TO COME BUT HE DOESN'T APPEAR IN THE NARRATIVE YET.
• 03:15 IN FACT, THERE IS NO KING IN ISRAEL.
• 03:17 THE JEWISH PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A CENTRAL LEADER.
• 03:19 THERE IS NO CAPITOL CITY.
• 03:21 WHAT YOU HAVE ARE INDIVIDUALS LIVING OUT IN VARIOUS FARMING COMMUNITIES.
• 03:25 THEY LIVE IN VILLAGES; THEY LIVE IN HUMBLE HOMES, JUST LIKE ELKANAH HERE.
• 03:30 THE BIBLE ISN'T WELL STUDIED.
• 03:32 SOME, LIKE THIS FELLOW, ARE GIVEN TO THE STUDY OF SCRIPTURE,
• 03:35 BUT BY AND LARGE IT'S BEEN NEGLECTED FOR YEARS.
• 03:37 BUT STILL THERE ARE RIGHTEOUS SOULS TRYING TO EEK OUT AN EXISTENCE
• 03:41 AND FIND SOME SECURITY IN A RATHER INSECURE WORLD.
• 03:46 HERE IN EPHRAYIM THERE WAS A MAN ELKANAH WHO HAD A WIFE, PENINNAH, AND A WIFE, HANNAH.
• 03:52 HANNAH IS PARTICULARLY NOTED TO BE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, A SINCERE, DEVOTED WOMAN
• 03:57 BUT SHE'S JUST GIVEN OVER TO TROUBLE.
• 04:00 SHE LIVED A RATHER RURAL EXISTENCE.
• 04:03 THEY FARMED, THEY LEARNED TO DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK AND USE IT.
• 04:09 THEY GATHERED THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH.
• 04:11 IN EFFECT, THEY LIVE A PEASANT LIFE.
• 04:13 THEY DIDN'T EXPECT MUCH BUT A WOMAN STILL EXPECTS LOVE.
• 04:19 AND IT'S NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK TO FIND LOVE FROM A MAN.
• 04:22 AND IT'S NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR CHILDREN.
• 04:25 OH, HANNAH WAS A BROKEN WOMAN.
• 04:27 WE LEARN THIS STORY IN FIRST SAMUEL HOW SHE'S SO VERY VEXED.
• 04:31 NOT ONLY IS SHE UNABLE TO BEAR A CHILD,
• 04:34 SHE'S REALLY UNABLE TO BEAR THE ANGST GENERATED
• 04:37 BECAUSE HER RIVAL, THE OTHER WOMAN IN THE HOUSE IS GIVEN TO CHILD BEARING
• 04:42 AND IS FOREVER PUTTING A THORN IN THE SIDE OF HANNAH.
• 04:46 WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE HER HUSBAND LOVED HER SO VERY MUCH.
• 04:51 HE LOVES HER EVEN THOUGH SHE DOESN'T HAVE A CHILD
• 04:53 AND HE EVEN SAYS TO HER AT ONE POINT,
• 04:56 "DEAR", HE SAYS, "AM I NOT WORTH MORE TO YOU THAN 10 CHILDREN?"
• 05:00 AT ONE HAND I CAN APPRECIATE HIS SENTIMENTS.
• 05:03 BUT THE ANSWER IN TRUTH IS "NO, YOU'RE NOT." WHY IS THAT?
• 05:07 BECAUSE SHE WAS DRIVEN SO MUCH FOR A DESIRE TO BEAR.
• 05:12 AND WHAT DOES SHE DO?
• 05:13 I'M SURE CAN RECALL THE STORY.
• 05:15 SHE GOES TO THE TABERNACLE, THE MISHKAN,
• 05:22 THIS WORSHIP CENTER THAT WAS SET UP AND LONG SINCE NEGLECTED.
• 05:25 AND THERE SHE PRAYS, "GOD, PLEASE, I BEG YOU, PLEASE, PLEASE GIVE ME A CHILD."
• 05:30 "AND IF YOU DO THAT I WILL DEDICATE THAT CHILD TO YOU."
• 05:34 YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS, SHE DOES JUST THAT AND GOD DOES JUST THAT.
• 05:39 SHE'S GOING TO CONCEIVE A CHILD.
• 05:41 OH, MARVELOUS IS THIS WOMAN!
• 05:44 AND THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY THAT UNFOLDS HERE OF A WOMAN'S LOVE FOR A CHILD.
• 05:50 AND THIS OUR BEGINNING POINT AS WE CONSIDER MOTHERHOOD.
• 05:53 THIS SACRED ACT OF BRINGING LIFE INTO THE WORLD
• 05:57 AND WE'LL CONSIDER THIS AS WE STUDY THE TORAH ON MOTHERHOOD.
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• 06:34 WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
• 06:36 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 06:38 THIS IS QUOTING HANNAH
• 06:41 WHO'S THERE BESEECHING GOD AT THE MISHKAN SAYING...
• 06:51 THIS IS IN THE "Shmuel" TEXT
• 06:53 IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF WHAT WE FIND IN THE MATHEAN GOSPEL
• 06:57 WHERE YESHUA, WHERE JESUS IS ON RECORD SAYING,
• 06:59 "IF YOU'D SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM, I'LL GIVE EVERYTHING ELSE TO YOU."
• 07:02 THIS WOMAN IS SAYING, "GOD I WANT TO PUT YOU FIRST."
• 07:05 AND SHE SAYS THAT BELIEVING THAT, GOD IS GOING TO IN FACT ACT ON HER BEHALF.
• 07:10 I THINK ITS VERY INTERESTING FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS,
• 07:13 ONE OF WHICH IS HERE YOU'RE LOOKING IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
• 07:15 AND DISCOVERING A WOMAN WHO IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE A VOW.
• 07:20 THIS TO ME IS REFLECTIVE OF A NUMBER OF THINGS,
• 07:22 ONE OF WHICH IS THE FACT THAT SHE ISN'T CONSTRUED AS SIMPLY
• 07:25 THE LOVE SLAVE OF THE MALE IN HER LIFE
• 07:29 NOR IS SHE SIMPLY DOMESTIC HELP TO WORK AROUND A HOME
• 07:32 AND SERVE THE FAMILY'S VARIOUS MATERIAL NEEDS AND INTERESTS.
• 07:35 TO BE SURE SHE DOES BEAR CHILDREN AND YES SHE HELPS AROUND THE HOUSE.
• 07:39 BUT THIS IS A WOMAN THAT'S EMPOWERED; SHE'S AUTHORIZED IN VARIOUS WAYS.
• 07:44 THIS IS EVIDENCED IN FACT,
• 07:46 BECAUSE LATER ON WHEN IT COMES TIME TO FULFILL THE VOW HER HUSBAND ELKANAH SAYS,
• 07:49 "WELL, SHALL WE NOW GIVE THIS CHILD OVER TO THE LORD AS PER YOUR VOW"?
• 07:53 AND SHE SAYS, "TIS NOT THE TIME".
• 07:56 AND SHE IN EFFECT WAS TOLD BY HIM,
• 07:57 "LISTEN, DO WHATEVER YOUR PLEASURE IS, DO WHAT SEEMS BEST".
• 08:00 HERE AGAIN IS AN EXAMPLE WHERE A WOMAN HAS SOCIAL POWER AND THIS IS STRIKING.
• 08:06 TODAY I'VE DISCOVERED IN A PAST CAREER AS A POLICE OFFICER MANY EXAMPLES OF MEN
• 08:11 WHO NEGLECT AND ABUSE WOMEN, WHO TREAT THEM AS PROPERTY TO PUSH THEM AROUND.
• 08:16 AND I OBSERVE IN THE WORLD TODAY AS WELL THAT SOME RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS SEEM TO SANCTION
• 08:20 A VISION OF A WOMAN AS JUST THE PROPERTY OF A MALE, A LOVE SLAVE,
• 08:25 SOMEONE TO DO HIS MATERIAL BIDDING.
• 08:27 THE HEBREW BIBLE, HOWEVER, CASTS A VISION FOR A WOMAN OF WORTH, A WOMAN OF VALUE.
• 08:34 THIS IS EVIDENCED IN CREATION IN FACT WHERE WE DISCOVER THAT SHE IS MADE FROM ADAM
• 08:39 AND IN SOME SENSE THEN IS HER EQUAL, NOT JUST HIS PROPERTY.
• 08:44 I'D LIKE TO SIT DOWN AND TAKE YOU TO THE TIME
• 08:48 WHEN MOSES STOOD UP AND DELIVERED THE "Logos",
• 08:51 THE COMMANDMENTS.
• 08:53 YOU MIGHT RECALL HE GOES TO MT. SINAI
• 08:56 AND HE COMES DOWN WITH THE "Logos",
• 08:59 WITH THE COMMANDMENTS, WITH THE TABLE OF TEN.
• 09:02 PRINCIPAL IN THAT TABLE IS A MANDATE.
• 09:06 IT'S OBSERVED IN THE BOOK "Shemot",
• 09:08 IN EXODUS CHAPTER 20, VERSE 12.
• 09:11 THEREIN THE ISRAELITES WERE TOLD TO HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER.
• 09:17 IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT NOT JUST FOR MEN TO HONOR THEIR WIVES,
• 09:24 BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE CHILDREN TO HONOR THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER.
• 09:27 AND THE REASON WHY I WANT TO UNDERSCORE "MOTHER" HERE FOR THE YOUNG
• 09:32 IS BECAUSE LATER ON WHEN THIS IS REPEATED IN "Vayikra",
• 09:36 IN LEVITICUS THERE IN THE 19TH CHAPTER, THE ORDER IS REVERSED.
• 09:40 MOSES THERE REITERATES AND SAYS THIS TIME,
• 09:43 "HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER" HENCE THE IMPORTANCE OF VALUING A MOTHER.
• 09:49 IN AS MUCH AS WE SEE WOMEN SO VESTED IN THE CARE OF THEIR YOUNG
• 09:55 SO IT IS IMPERATIVE UPON THE MALES OF THE SPECIES TO VALUE THE MOTHER
• 10:00 AND FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE SPECIES TO VALUE THE MOTHER.
• 10:03 THIS IS UNDERSCORED IN THE HEBREW BIBLE WITH THE NOTATION
• 10:08 THAT ONE MUST NEEDS DO SO IN ORDER FOR THEIR DAYS TO BE PROLONGED UPON THE EARTH.
• 10:14 THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW OF THE 613 EXAMPLES WHERE THERE'S INSTRUCTION
• 10:19 AND THEN IT SAYS "DO THIS IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE".
• 10:24 THIS POINT IS UNDERSCORED BEAUTIFULLY IT SEEMS TO ME IN THE HEBREW BIBLE IN THE BOOK "Devarim".
• 10:30 DEVARIM IN HEBREW MEANS "THE WORDS",
• 10:33 ITS KNOWN AS "Deuteronomos" FROM THE GREEK MEANING "SECOND LAW".
• 10:39 THEREIN IN THE 22ND CHAPTER THERE'S WHAT SEEMS TO BE AN INSIGNIFICANT STORY.
• 10:45 HERE "Moshe Rabanu", MOSES IS ON RECORD SAYING
• 10:48 THAT IF YOU WALK ALONG THE PATH AND STUMBLE UPON A NEST,
• 10:52 OR IF NOT ON THE PATH, IF YOU SEE A NEST THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE UPON THE GROUND,
• 10:57 ONE THAT FELL FROM A TREE BRANCH AND AS THIS ONE HERE HAS FALLEN AND EGGS HAVE FALLEN OUT,
• 11:02 HERE THE INSTRUCTION IS THAT IF A PERSON IS WALKING ALONG THE PATH OR DISCOVERS A NEST
• 11:09 AND THAT PERSON SAYS, "I WANT TO EAT THE YOUNG",
• 11:14 THE PERSON IS TOLD THAT IF THE MOTHER BIRD IS AROUND THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE EGGS.
• 11:20 THE INSTRUCTION IN CHAPTER 22, VERSE 6 AND 7 IS THAT ONE MUST NEEDS SHOO AWAY THE MOTHER
• 11:26 AND AFTER DOING SO THEN THE PERSON CAN TAKE THE EGGS.
• 11:31 AND AFTER THIS LAW, ONE OF THE 613 IT SAYS,
• 11:35 "DO THIS IN ORDER THAT YOUR DAYS MIGHT BE PROLONGED UPON THE EARTH.
• 11:39 HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE FEW EXAMPLES, SPARTAN TEXTS
• 11:43 WHERE THERE'S A COMMANDMENT TO DO THIS IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY PROSPER.
• 11:46 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 11:48 SO SACRED IS THE BOND BETWEEN A CHILD AND A PARENT THAT IT EXTENDS NOT JUST TO HUMANS
• 11:55 BUT TO SMALLEST OF CREATURES, THE BIRDS.
• 11:59 THE HEBREW CHILD IS INSTRUCTED THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A MOTHER AND A CHILD IS SACRED.
• 12:04 AND SO IT IS THAT THE CHILDREN MUST NEEDS HONOR, RESPECT AND HELP THE MOTHER.
• 12:09 IF THIS BOY LEARNS THIS AT A YOUNG AGE YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
• 12:13 IN AS MUCH AS HE'S LEARNED TO HONOR HIS MOTHER HE'S GOING TO GROW UP.
• 12:17 AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 12:18 HE'S GOING TO HONOR HIS WIFE.
• 12:21 WOULD WE NOT DO WELL TO OPEN UP THE HEBREW BIBLE AND COME TO TERMS WITH THE OBLIGATIONS
• 12:26 TO HONOR THE WOMEN IN OUR WORLD, OUR DAUGHTERS, OUR MOTHERS, OUR WIVES?
• 12:43 HANNAH WAS A LOVING MOTHER WASN'T SHE?
• 12:45 AND THAT REMINDS ME THAT WE'RE OBLIGATED TO IN TURN LOVE OUR MOTHERS,
• 12:49 TO RETURN THAT FAVOR.
• 12:50 THIS IS UNDERSCORED IN DEUTERONOMY AND ELSEWHERE
• 12:53 WHERE WE SEE THE IMPERATIVE THAT CHILDREN RESPECT THEIR MOTHERS AND THEIR FATHERS.
• 13:00 AND THERE'S CONSEQUENCES FOR NOT DOING, CORRECT?
• 13:02 GOD THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT
• 13:04 OR HE WOULDN'T HAVE PUT IT AS ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
• 13:06 TRUE.
• 13:07 AND WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE IT'S IMPORTANT TO REAFFIRM THAT VALUE.
• 13:12 I SEE DISRESPECT, ITS UBIQUITOUS, ITS EVERYWHERE.
• 13:15 IT COMES OUT IN FAMILY SYSTEMS AND IT COMES OUT IN PASSING TOO.
• 13:19 I SEE WHEN A PARENT PASSES SOMETIMES THE KIDS ARE LIKE
• 13:23 HUNGRY SHARKS ABOUT WHAT KIND OF INHERITANCE THERE IS AND WHAT "I CAN GET".
• 13:27 THERE'S A FEEDING FRENZY.
• 13:29 WE JUST HAVE A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE FAMILY NOW
• 13:31 AND I THINK WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE BASICS
• 13:33 OF RESPECTING EACH OTHER.
• 13:34 AGAIN, IT COMES DOWN TO RESPECTING EACH OTHER AGAIN.
• 13:37 AND THAT'S WHY I LIKE GOING BACK TO THE BIBLE.
• 13:39 THERE'S THE OLD EXPRESSION,
• 13:40 "KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID"
• 13:41 AND THE BIBLE TAKES US BACK RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 13:43 AND HELPS US TO GET ORIENTED
• 13:45 TO SEE HOW WE SHOULD BE AS HUSBANDS AND WIVES,
• 13:47 MOTHERS AND FATHERS AND CHILDREN. AND CHILDREN.
• 13:49 IT'S ALL GOOD.
• 13:50 WHAT IS OUR MORAL COMPASS?
• 13:53 THE BIBLE IS OUR MORAL COMPASS.
• 13:54 AND WE HAVE LOST IT SOMETIMES.
• 13:56 AND THIS IS GOOD TO GET BACK TO DO THIS.
• 13:58 YES, AND IT HELPS US TO FALL IN LOVE WITH OUR MOTHERS AFRESH
• 14:01 WHEN WE CONSIDER HOW BEAUTIFUL MOTHERHOOD IS.
• 14:03 RIGHT.
• 14:04 I TALKED TO SHARON SANDERS IN ISRAEL.
• 14:05 QUITE A MOTHER THERE.
• 14:06 SHE REALLY WAS.
• 14:08 I ASKED HER HOW LONG THEY HAD LIVED IN ISRAEL,
• 14:09 HOW LONG THEY HAD BEEN THERE
• 14:11 AND THEY ARE WITH THE CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL.
• 14:13 AND IT'S JUST EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS THEY ARE.
• 14:16 THEY ARE CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL
• 14:18 AND THEY TOO DO RECONSTRUCTION.
• 14:20 THEY ALSO FURNISH FOOD,
• 14:22 THEY GO OUT AND THEY TALK TO PEOPLE.
• 14:24 THEY REALLY LITERALLY OPEN THEIR ARMS TO ALL THE JEWS.
• 14:27 SHE'S JUST WONDERFUL!
• 14:29 YOU KNOW I HAD HER DAUGHTER AS A STUDENT THAT'S RIGHT.
• 14:32 BEING A COLLEGE PROFESSOR PREPARING FOR MINISTRY.
• 14:34 SHE AND HER SON-IN-LAW.
• 14:36 SHE'S DOING A GREAT WORK THERE.
• 14:37 THEY REALLY ARE AND I ASKED HER,
• 14:38 "REALLY, HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN ISRAEL?"
• 14:40 AND THIS IS HER STORY.
• 14:41 HERE'S SHARON SANDERS.
• 14:42 �
• 14:44 WELL, SANDRA WE'VE
• 14:45 BEEN HERE 22 YEARS.
• 14:46 MY HUSBAND AND I
• 14:48 CAME FROM THE MIDWEST
• 14:49 OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• 14:51 AND I COULD SAY THAT
• 14:52 THE LAST 22 YEARS
• 14:54 HAVE BEEN THE BEST
• 14:55 YEARS OF OUR LIFE.
• 14:56 THEY'VE BEEN HARD,
• 14:57 THEY'VE BEEN DIFFICULT, YES..YES
• 14:58 BUT THEY'VE BEEN GOOD.
• 14:59 AND I BELIEVE THAT ONE HAS TO HAVE DETERMINATION TO LIVE HERE,
• 15:04 ONE HAS TO BE DEVOTED TO LIVE HERE
• 15:07 AND YOU GOT BE A LITTLE BIT COURAGEOUS.
• 15:09 I AGREE WITH THAT. (Sandra Laughing)
• 15:11 I THINK ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A WOMAN OF FAITH IN THE LORD
• 15:18 DEVOTION OF COURSE TO GOD IS THE WHOLE THING.
• 15:20 IF YOU HAVE A CALL FROM GOD,
• 15:22 CAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT'LL KEEP YOU HERE.
• 15:24 AND I THINK DETERMINATION IN WHATEVER GOD'S CALLING YOU TO DO
• 15:30 IF YOU'VE SEEN A NEED YOU GO AND MEET IT.
• 15:34 THAT'S WHAT I CALL A WOMAN OF FAITH
• 15:36 AND BEING A BELIEVER HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 15:37 THERE'S SO MANY NEEDS IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 15:41 WE'RE SEEING NEEDS EVERYDAY OF OUR LIFE
• 15:43 OF JEWISH PEOPLE FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE
• 15:46 AND EVEN A LOT OF NON-JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN THE LAND.
• 15:49 BUT I BELIEVE THAT COURAGE ALSO..
• 15:53 WE HAVE A LOT OF PARADIGMS IN THE BIBLE.
• 15:54 RIGHT, WOMEN OF COURAGE. >>RIGHT
• 15:57 RUTH, THEY ALL HAD THEIR WONDERFUL ASPECTS
• 16:03 AND CHARACTERISTICS OF BEING COURAGEOUS AND DOING SOMETHING.
• 16:07 I THINK OF THE WORDS OF...
• 16:09 DO YOU REMEMBER ERMA BOMBECK?
• 16:10 OH, YES. SHE WAS SO FUNNY.
• 16:13 SHE WAS A HUMOROUS WRITER.
• 16:14 SHE TALKED A LOT ABOUT WOMEN, ABOUT HOME LIFE.
• 16:17 BUT SHE SAID ONE THING THAT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.
• 16:20 SHE SAID SOMETHING LIKE,
• 16:22 "WHEN I COME TO THE END OF MY LIFE AND I STAND BEFORE GOD"
• 16:28 "I WANT TO HAVE USED UP EVERY BIT OF TALENT"
• 16:34 "AND ABILITY THAT I HAD WITHIN ME."
• 16:37 "AND WHEN I SAY TO HIM, 'I USED IT ALL. I USED EVERY BIT'."
• 16:40 ...THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SAY."
• 16:42 OH, AMEN!
• 16:44 WHATEVER IS WITHIN ME, I WANT TO USE IT FOR THE KINGDOM.
• 16:46 CAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT ABOUT US,
• 16:48 IT'S ABOUT HIM AND OTHERS.
• 16:51 AND, YEAH, I THINK LIVING HERE HAS TAUGHT ME HUMILITY FOR ONE THING.
• 16:58 I SEE SO MANY NEEDS, AND THE LORD TOLD ME ONCE,
• 17:02 "TO GO HIGH WITH ME YOU NEED TO GO LOWER, SHARON."
• 17:05 AND I ASKED WHAT THAT MEANT AND HE SAID,
• 17:08 "WHAT DID MY SON DO?"
• 17:09 "WHEN HE WASHED THE FEET OF HIS DISCIPLES."
• 17:11 "THAT WAS ME, GOD, WITH A TOWEL IN MY HAND."
• 17:14 AND SO I'VE LEARNED IN MY YEARS HERE
• 17:17 TO GO TO PLACES WHERE NOBODY ELSE WANTS TO GO,
• 17:21 TO SIT AT THE FEET OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND HEAR THEM,
• 17:24 HEAR THEIR STORIES, LISTEN TO THEM, THEIR PAIN, THEIR SUFFERING.
• 17:29 AND I WILL TO SAY THAT PROBABLY OUR FEET HAVE GONE PLACES WHERE FEW OTHER FEET HAVE GONE.
• 17:35 WE SOMETIMES THINK THAT
• 17:37 WE DON'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN
• 17:39 LITTLE THE LITTLE THINGS WE DO.
• 17:40 BUT THE HOSPITALITY THAT WE DO,
• 17:42 THE KIND WORDS THAT WE DO, THE LISTENING TO PEOPLE, MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
• 17:46 THE LISTENING - IMPORTANT.
• 17:48 WE ALWAYS LIKE TO DO A LOT OF TALKING.
• 17:50 BUT I'VE LEARNED TO LISTEN IN ISRAEL.
• 17:52 THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE LEARNED TO DO
• 17:53 BECAUSE THE ISRAELIS', THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY.
• 17:56 RIGHT
• 17:57 WHETHER THEY'RE YOUNG,
• 17:59 MAYBE THEY'VE SUFFERED TERRORIST ATTACKS,
• 18:01 WHICH IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN AN OLDER PERSON WHO SUFFERED MANY YEARS DURING THE WAR.
• 18:06 BUT THEY'VE ALL GOT A STORY AND SO I'VE LEARNED TO LISTEN.
• 18:09 FOR ME LIFE HERE AND THE WORK THAT WE DO,
• 18:12 IT'S SIMPLY TAKING THE LOVE OF THE LORD BACK TO THE VERY PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT IT TO US IN THE BEGINNING.
• 18:19 RIGHT
• 18:20 AND HELPING TO UNDO SOME OF THE DAMAGE THAT'S BEEN DONE OVER THE PAST.
• 18:25 WHERE DO YOU SEE THE MINISTRY GOING?
• 18:28 WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES, WHAT ARE YOUR DREAMS?
• 18:30 WELL, 22 YEARS AGO, THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHEN WE ARRIVED
• 18:33 IT WAS LIKE, "KEEP YOUR DISTANCE".
• 18:35 WE REMEMBER WORLD WAR II.
• 18:37 WE REMEMBER WHAT CHRISTIANS DID.
• 18:39 RIGHT RIGHT
• 18:41 AND SO IT HASN'T BEEN EASY.
• 18:42 WE HAD TO ROLL UP THOSE SLEEVES AND GO TO WORK.
• 18:44 AND EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH US
• 18:47 WE JUST HAD TO KEEP GIVING LOVE, THE LOVE OF THE LORD.
• 18:50 RIGHT
• 18:51 LET ME TELL YOU ONE THING.
• 18:53 THERE WAS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR,
• 18:54 HER NAME WAS SEMA.
• 18:55 SHE WAS A BERGEN-BELSEN SURVIVOR.
• 18:57 I WANTED TO HUG HER BECAUSE I WAS A CHRISTIAN.
• 19:02 SHE SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOUR HUG."
• 19:04 "I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU"
• 19:06 "BECAUSE OF WHAT YOUR PEOPLE DID TO MY PEOPLE DURING WORLD WAR II."
• 19:10 "YOU CLOSED YOUR DOORS,"
• 19:11 "YOU PULLED DOWN THE SHADES,"
• 19:13 "WE WERE STANDING OUTSIDE IN THE STREET."
• 19:16 AND YET I WANTED TO MEET SURVIVORS SO SEMA TOOK ME AND WE BEGAN TO GO.
• 19:22 AND ONE DAY 2 YEARS LATER SHE THREW HER ARMS AROUND ME
• 19:27 AND SAID, "I LOVE YOU."
• 19:29 SHE SAID, "YOU ARE THE FIRST CHRISTIAN THAT EVER CAME TO MY PEOPLE"
• 19:34 "AND I HAVE WATCHED YOU FOR 2 YEARS OR MORE."
• 19:38 "YOU REALLY DO LOVE MY PEOPLE."
• 19:40 "YOU DO LOVE THEM." ABSOLUTELY
• 19:44 SHE SAID, "I'VE WATCHED YOU AND I'VE SEEN YOU."
• 19:45 AND SO THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENED.
• 19:48 22 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, OTHERS LIKE OURSELVES,
• 19:51 JUST GIVING THE LOVE OF GOD.
• 19:53 WHO WOULD HAVE DREAMT THAT CHRISTIANS WOULD SIT IN KNESSET TODAY
• 19:58 IN A KNESSET CHRISTIAN ALLIES CAUCUS FORUM?
• 20:02 WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT THERE'D BE A WOMEN'S COUNCIL? THAT'S RIGHT
• 20:06 WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THESE THINGS?
• 20:08 AND IT'S GOD.
• 20:10 GOD IS OPENING THE DOORS.
• 20:12 IT'S GOD BRINGING US TOGETHER. HE'S OPENING THE DOORS AND THAT IS A BLESSING.
• 20:14 BUT WE HAVE TO DO THE WORK. RIGHT
• 20:15 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S NEEDED.
• 20:19 I'VE KNOWN SHARON SANDERS
• 20:20 AND HER HUSBAND RAY FOR YEARS.
• 20:23 TOGETHER THEY HAVE BEEN LABORING TO ADVANCE CHRIST'S KINGDOM IN ISRAEL
• 20:27 AND BUILD BRIDGES BETWEEN JEWS AND NON-JEWS.
• 20:32 I'VE SEEN AS WELL HOW SHARON ROLLS UP HER SLEEVES
• 20:34 TO MINISTER TO THE POOR,
• 20:36 TO HELP DISPLACED, DISPOSSESSED IMMIGRANTS WHO COME TO ISRAEL
• 20:40 WITH LITTLE MORE THAN THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACK.
• 20:42 AND THERE SHE IS MOTHERING, LOVING, AND CARING AND SHARING.
• 20:46 GREAT WOMAN, GREAT CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY!
• 20:48 IT WAS WONDERFUL.
• 20:50 WHEN WE WERE INTERVIEWING HER SHE WAS MAKING SURE ALL THE CREW HAD SOMETHING TO DRINK,
• 20:54 MAKING SURE WE WERE OKAY, JUST A NATURAL TENDENCY TO MOTHER PEOPLE.
• 20:58 SHE REACHES OUT, HER MINISTRY REACHES OUT, TOUCHES LIVES, HUGS PEOPLE.
• 21:04 HOW MANY MINISTERS DO YOU KNOW THAT JUST GO OUT AND HUG PEOPLE?
• 21:07 WHY DO WE EXCLUDE WOMEN FROM MINISTRY?
• 21:11 WHEN YOU SEE AN EXAMPLE OF ROLLING UP SLEEVES
• 21:13 AND LOVING AND SHARING AND CARING,
• 21:16 WHY IS THERE NOT ROOM FOR THAT IN THE LORD'S WORK TODAY?
• 21:18 BUT I THINK THERE IS JEFF. SO DO I
• 21:20 I THINK WE'RE SEEING IT.
• 21:22 I THINK THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE PROGRAM
• 21:24 IS SHOWING THAT WOMEN DO HAVE A PLACE
• 21:27 AND I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE.
• 21:28 GOD USES EVERYTHING FOR WOMEN.
• 21:30 NOW SPEAKING OF PLACE,
• 21:32 WE HAD A WONDERFUL INTERVIEW WITH A MOTHER AND A DAUGHTER
• 21:35 IN A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE DIDN'T WE?
• 21:37 IT WAS AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.
• 21:39 I KNEW THESE PEOPLE.
• 21:41 THEY HAD BEEN ON THE TOUR A COUPLE OF TIMES.
• 21:43 AND THEN I WAS TALKING TO THEM
• 21:45 AND A WHOLE OTHER STORY COMES OUT
• 21:47 ABOUT HOW THIS MOTHER HAD THIS CHILD
• 21:50 AND HOW THIS ALL CAME ABOUT.
• 21:52 WONDERFUL INTERVIEW.
• 21:53 AND THE BABY WAS BORN IN ISRAEL, CORRECT?
• 21:54 THE BABY WAS CONCEIVED IN ISRAEL. CONCEIVED IN ISRAEL.
• 21:57 THEY WERE ON A TOUR IN ISRAEL
• 21:58 AND NOW I'M SPOILING THE WHOLE SCENE
• 22:01 BUT REALLY, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT.
• 22:03 I'M STANDING AND INTERVIEWING
• 22:04 AND SHE'S STARTING TO TELL ME THIS AND I'M LIKE,
• 22:06 "OH MY GOODNESS I DIDN'T KNOW THIS."
• 22:07 AND I'VE KNOWN THESE PEOPLE FOR YEARS.
• 22:09 SO IT WAS A WONDERFUL,
• 22:10 INTERESTING STORY SIDELINE TO BE IN ISRAEL.
• 22:13 GREAT MOTHER- DAUGHTER STORY. GREAT MOTHER- DAUGHTER...
• 22:15 I THINK YOU'LL LIKE IT.
• 22:18 ONE OF MY GREATEST JOYS
• 22:19 IS TO SEE PARENTS BRING
• 22:21 THEIR CHILDREN TO ISRAEL.
• 22:23 BETSY BROUGHT HER DAUGHTER MANY, MANY YEARS AGO AS YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL WHEN YOU CAME.
• 22:27 AND THEY KEEP COMING BACK BECAUSE THEY LOVE ISRAEL.
• 22:30 AND I LOVE TO SEE THAT LOOK AND THAT SPARK IN YOU ALLS EYES.
• 22:34 HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU AS A WOMAN TO LOVE ISRAEL, TO KNOW ISRAEL, TO COME TO ISRAEL?
• 22:39 HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOUR FAITH? HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOUR WITNESS?
• 22:44 THE FIRST TIME I CAME HERE WITH ELIZABETH I BECAME PREGNANT.
• 22:50 SO SHE IS MY LITTLE BABY FROM ISRAEL. OH HOW WONDERFUL.
• 22:52 IT IS SUCH A BLESSING.
• 22:54 AND WHEN I COME HERE I SEE THROUGH GOD'S EYES IN A WAY I CAN'T SEE AT HOME.
• 22:59 I SEE THE FLOWERS, I SEE WHERE HE WALKED,
• 23:03 I SEE THE THINGS HE DID. WHAT HIS HEART BEAT WAS.
• 23:06 AND I CAN RELATE TO THE CULTURE SO MUCH BETTER.
• 23:08 AND SO I UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S TRYING TO SAY THROUGH JEWISH EYES
• 23:13 THAT I DON'T SEE WHEN I'M IN AN AMERICAN CULTURE PERHAPS.
• 23:17 I REALLY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE SO MUCH BETTER AND I LOVE IT.
• 23:20 IT PUTS IT ALL TOGETHER.
• 23:22 IT'S NOT AN OLD TESTAMENT,
• 23:23 ITS NOT A NEW TESTAMENT,
• 23:25 ITS ONE BOOK OF THE BIBLE.
• 23:27 RIGHT
• 23:27 AND YOU ARE SO YOUNG
• 23:28 AND YET YOU LOVE ISRAEL SO MUCH
• 23:30 I DO. ISRAEL HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART.
• 23:33 I CAME HERE WHEN I WAS REALLY YOUNG
• 23:34 AND I WAS BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN RIVER
• 23:37 AND EVERY TIME I COME BACK YOU ALWAYS GET SOMETHING NEW
• 23:41 AND IT STRENGTHENS MY FAITH.
• 23:44 IT HELPS ME GROW A LOT IN THE WORD
• 23:47 AND I TRY TO TELL PEOPLE THAT COME
• 23:49 JUST HOW THEY NEED TO COME FIRST HAND AND JUST SEE THE SIGHTS
• 23:52 BECAUSE YOU GET TO WALK WHERE JESUS WALKED AND YOU GET TO EXPERIENCE IT,
• 23:57 JUST SEEING HIS PRESENCE WHERE HE WAS.
• 24:02 AND ON THE WAY UP HERE TO JERUSALEM
• 24:05 WHEN WE READ THE PSALMS
• 24:07 AND YOU OPEN UP YOUR BIBLE AND YOU JUST SEE...
• 24:10 IT JUST POPS OFF THE PAGE...
• 24:13 JUST SEEING THE CONTEXT FIRST HAND.
• 24:17 PSALM CHAPTER 122, VERSE 6 WHERE HE SAYS
• 24:21 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
• 24:22 IT MAKES SENSE DOESN'T IT?
• 24:24 AS YOU'RE DRIVING UP YOU'RE COMING UP
• 24:26 MAKING "ALIA" TO ISRAEL, TO JERUSALEM,
• 24:28 IT REALLY DOES MAKE SENSE.
• 24:30 DOES IT STRENGTHEN YOU AS WOMEN TO BE HERE?
• 24:32 YES, ABSOLUTELY.
• 24:33 IN WHAT WAY?
• 24:34 IT JUST MAKES ME REALIZE
• 24:36 THAT I NEED TO TAKE.. YOU KNOW, GO OUT WITH MY FAITH
• 24:39 AND THAT GOD CAN USE THAT IN SO MANY WAYS
• 24:43 AND THAT WE CAN JUST GO OUT AND BE LIGHTS AND SHINE THE TRUTH.
• 24:48 AND IT MAKES YOU AFTER YOU COME HERE
• 24:51 JUST REALLY WANT TO GO OUT AND JUST SPREAD THE WORD.
• 24:54 SO IS THIS YOUR LAST TRIP?
• 24:56 NEVER NEVER
• 24:57 AND WE ALWAYS TRY TO
• 24:59 BRING SOMEONE BACK WITH US.
• 25:00 YES
• 25:00 GOD BLESS YOU.
• 25:02 THANK YOU SO MUCH! THANK YOU THANK YOU
• 25:10 (Zola playing recorder)
• 26:11 SACRED IS THE BOND BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD TIS THE MORAL OF THE STORY TODAY.
• 26:16 IT IS.
• 26:18 AND YOU KNOW THE BOND OF MAN AND WIFE.
• 26:19 WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO A COUNSELOR NEXT WEEK.
• 26:21 WHO'S THAT?
• 26:22 BUT A SPECIAL COUNSELOR,
• 26:23 MRS. PATTY SEIF, YOUR WIFE IS GOING TO BE WITH US NEXT WEEK.
• 26:26 SO THAT'S EXCITING.
• 26:27 I'VE ENJOYED HANNAH, I'VE ENJOYED EVE
• 26:31 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO PATTY SEIF, THE COUNSELOR.
• 26:33 JOIN US NEXT WEEK AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:35 "SHA' ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM"
• 26:37 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.