Stakelbeck Tonight

Erick Stakelbeck: August 29, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

August 29, 2025 | S25 E829 | 23:35

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: August 29, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | August 29, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck
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Tonight i'm erick stakelbeck and we are taking a journey
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To one of the most important places in your bible.
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There's jerusalem, and then there is hebron.
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This ancient biblical city dates back nearly 4000 years.
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Abraham still holds
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The title deed to hebron, and as a matter of fact,
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He is buried in that ancient structure behind me.
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Along with sarah, rebecca, isaac, leah and jacob,
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The patriarchs
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And the matriarchs before king david ruled in jerusalem,
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He ruled in hebron for seven and a half years.
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Tonight will take on an incredible journey
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Through this ancient city and bring your bible to life.
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And it all starts now.
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- wow.
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Yishai, of all the incredible biblical
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Sites we visited today here in hebron,
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This is the big one, literally and biblically.
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Where are we right now?
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- eric, i've had the merit today to bring you
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To abraham's property.
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This is abraham's property.
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The bible records it.
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Chapter 23, book of genesis.
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It's clear without a question that this
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Property is abraham's property.
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He purchased it from the hittites and today --
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- and how long ago was that?
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- that was about 3800 years ago.
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3800, and you're standing here.
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Now, if you allow yourself you can really
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Feel that you're in grandma's and grandpa's
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Like salon, in their living room, okay you can
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Really enjoy that.
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A lot of times i take off my shoes, i let people
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Sit down under a tree here just to feel that
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You're embraced by the forefathers and mothers.
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You're in grandma's and grandpa's room.
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You're in their house.
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- abraham and sarah.
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- that's right.
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The founders of it all.
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Without them the whole thing, there's no point to
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The whole thing.
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Why do we need hebron if we have jerusalem?
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Jerusalem, that's where you meet god.
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That's where temples stood.
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That's where third temple stands.
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Okay.
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That's where great people walked, right?
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So what do we need this thing for?
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This thing is an ode to the founders, that the
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People that chose god.
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Abraham figured out, he understood how to
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Follow god.
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And about 3800 years ago, his beloved wife sarah
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Passes away.
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He negotiates to buy this property, and to bury her.
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He buries her here, okay.
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In a ceremony.
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It's very moving, and it's the first purchased,
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First burial of a jewish person in the land
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Of israel.
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Then abraham passes away, right.
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Now who buries abraham?
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Isaac and ishmael.
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According to the arabs, ishmael is their forefather
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So we basically have isaac and ishmael
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Getting together to honor their shared father.
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And i always tell my arab neighbors around here
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Let's get together to beautify this place to
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Honor our shared father.
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I tell that to the emirates through the
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Abraham accords.
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I say to them let's get together and beautify
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This place.
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Let's honor our joint father.
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By the way, the word hebron means
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Getting together.
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It means friendship from the word [speaking hebrew ]
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Friendship. so the arab as say [speaking hebrew ]
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Abraham was a friend of god.
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And we also say that abraham was the friend
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Of god.
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The second couple is rebekah and isaac.
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Okay.
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Rebekah passes away.
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The bible keeps it kind of secretive, but then
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Isaac passes away, and he's buried by his 2 sons
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Jacob and esau, okay.
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And then finally jacob moves down to egypt and
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He's laying there on his death bed and he says
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Boys, gather around.
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My 12 sons, gather around.
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I want you to swear to me that you're going to bury
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Me in hebron, in the place where abraham and
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Sarah, isaac and rebekah and leah are buried.
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That's where i'm supposed to be buried.
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Take me there.
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And the end of the book of genesis is that they
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Do a procession from egypt and they take him
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And they bring him to this place.
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- right here.
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Now, on his death bed he also gives a long
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Soliloquy, a long monologue, and he says
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This is the plot that abraham bought for 400
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Silver weight from the hittites.
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It's in hebron which is next to monrah which is
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Next to --he gives a whole speech about where and
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Why it is.
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And sometimes you wonder why do we need all that
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Info, and the reason we need that info, erick, is
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That sometimes people come around and say to
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Us, guess what?
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This is not your place.
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And about four years ago i was working here, and
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The organization that's dedicated to world
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Heritage sites unesco decided this was actually
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A palestinian world heritage site that's
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Being endangered by israel.
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So wait a minute.
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Our forefathers and mothers, our jewish king
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Built this building.
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- in the first jewish city in history.
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- right.
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And now it's actually palestinian which is
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It's not.
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- so yishai, what you're telling us that
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The un, unesco is the world heritage site arm
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Of the un they are saying this is not a
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Jewish site.
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- that's right.
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- abraham, isaac, jacob, rebekah, sarah, leah, but
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This is not jewish?
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- right.
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- not biblical?
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- right.
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It's not important to the jews.
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It's -that's not what the town is.
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It's a palestinian town.
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It's a palestinian shrine.
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- this is the un?
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- this is the un.
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This is their body dedicated to recognizing
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World heritage sites.
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Well, i started a fight in my offices.
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I said to the folks let's fight.
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And everybody said it's not worth it.
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We're always gonna lose to these guys.
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And we started a fight and it snowballed to the
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Point that the united states pulled out of
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Unesco under nikki haley because of the anti-
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Hebron decision, the anti-semitism.
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The history erasure that unesco was engaged in.
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They pulled out because of that, okay.
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So that was a great victory.
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- big victory.
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- yeah.
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It was a big victory and a personal victory of
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Like we have to stand up for truth.
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And i remember the words of jacob.
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He was like, no, no.
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I want you to know what this site is all about.
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- yes.
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- all right.
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Let's just do one quick kind of wrap up of jewish
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History here.
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According to the mystical doctrine, adam and eve
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Are buried here.
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It doesn't say that in the bible, okay, but that
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Is our doctrine.
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- abraham, sarah we know.
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Adam and eve -- - adam and eve.
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Right.
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Not everybody buys that but according to jewish
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Lore that's why he actually wanted, abraham
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Wanted this site because he wanted to be close to the
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Entrance to the garden of eden.
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So that was 5,000 years ago.
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4,000 ears ago approximately abraham
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Comes here and does what we talked about,
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Purchases the site.
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3,000 years ago king david is king here.
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The building doesn't exist yet but he worships
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Here and he wants to be like the forefathers and
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Mothers in charge of all the jewish people.
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That was 3,000 years ago.
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2,000 years ago, herod comes and he builds
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This site.
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- this amazing structure.
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There's a lot of interesting details here
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Too, yishai.
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- oh, you bet.
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- this is the one herodian structure that
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Is fully intact.
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- it is considered the world's oldest structure
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That is continuously serving what it was
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Intended to serve at its onset.
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This thing has been around for a long time
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And doing the exact same thing it was always meant
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To do which was to honor the forefathers
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And mothers.
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- over 2,000 years.
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- that's right.
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- and a stunning structure.
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I mean architecturally you can see herod's
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Fingerprints all over it.
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- that's right.
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- if you look at other sites throughout the
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Land, clearly herodian structure.
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- right.
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And if you look at it, it looks like the
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Western wall.
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- yes is, it does.
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- the difference is the western paul is a remnant
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Of the temple that stood.
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This is not a remnant.
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This is the whole thing.
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This is the whole enchilada.
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The byzantines built a church up there in the
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300's to 500's and then later on in the year 1267
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The molochs came.
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They added these two minarets okay, and they
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Added that upper lip.
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They added a lot to the structure.
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They also did one more thing.
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They kicked out the jews and the christians from
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The building.
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They said you can't pray here anymore.
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It's a muslim site now like unesco, right.
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They're like forget it.
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It's not your site.
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And they relegated us to a place called the
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7th step.
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It was on that wall over there.
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We were allowed to just be outside.
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Hey, this is our building.
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- yeah.
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- hey, our mothers and fathers are buried here.
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No can do.
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You're out and you're not allowed in.
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And that was true for 700 years.
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1267 until 1967.
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700 years the jews were outside of the building.
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But erick, do you imagine the tenacity, the
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Tenacity of the jewish people to cleave onto
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This wall and say this is our place.
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We'll never leave it even though we're kicked out
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Of the building.
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One day we'll come back, and that's what happened
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In the year 1967 in the six day war, a famous
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Rabbi, rabbi gore, he was one of the generals of the
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Army, chief rabbi of the army, he came in waved
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The flag, and we finally came back to our mothers
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And fathers.
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- what a homecoming.
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Amazing.
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And this is a complex site in that there is
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Also you mentioned the minarets, there's
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Also a mosque.
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Talk about additions, that was added on to
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The complex.
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- that's right and to this very day there is
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Still an active mosque there and we basically
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Share the site, the jews and the muslims, and
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Basically there is a room they have, a giant room
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Which is called isaac's hall.
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The isaac hall which they're in control of
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Most of the year except for ten days of the year
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We get full control of the site including
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Isaac's hall and ten days a year they get full
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Control of the site of the whole building, and
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We're not inside the building.
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So it's a sharing model of some kind.
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Some people don't like it.
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Other people say okay, at least it's a worked out
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System that you have.
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But it's a shared site today but it's also a
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Contested site.
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Okay.
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It's definitely, everybody wants to be the
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True son of abraham.
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Everybody wants to be the real inheritor of the
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Abrahamic way and that's what the fight is about.
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- yeah.
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There was jewish population here obviously
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For centuries.
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1929, horrific massacre of the jewish population
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Here at hebron.
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- that's right.
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- but the jewish people -- - we're back.
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- we're back.
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- we're back and that's really --
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- the story of israel in general.
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- that's the story of israel in general.
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You know, erick, our word for victory is [hebrew ]
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But it's also the word for eternity.
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Sometimes we don't beat new the first battle but
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We beat you a millennia later okay.
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So we're back now after being kicked out of our
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Ancient town of abraham's,
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A connection to abraham's first property and
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Now we're back in our homeland.
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- yishai, you have laid it out beautifully for us
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Today you but we're keeping people
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In suspense.
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I know everyone wants to go inside and see where
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The forefathers, the mothers are buried.
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Abraham, isaac, jacob, rebekah, sarah, leah are
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Actually buried right here, folks, and we are
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Going to go inside.
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Yishai, lead the way.
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Let's go.
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- let's do it.
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Yishai fleisher laid out the
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History of hebron beautifully for us.
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But when we come back,
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The suspense of going inside the cave will be over.
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And we will see where the patriarchs abraham, isaac
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And jacob and the matriarchs
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Rebecca, leah and sarah are actually buried.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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- erick, we're about to go in, into the tomb of
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The forefathers and mothers.
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It's a jewish building, so we have something
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Called a mezuzah. a mezuzah.
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It's a weird word but it really means it's a
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Little torah scroll; not the whole torah,
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It's got some chapters, and it's wound up,
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And it's inside this thing.
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What we do is we put a scroll at the
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Entrance of our door. we remind everybody
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That we think about god as we enter a place.
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We also remind god, we say come into our house,
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Come into this building.
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Now we used to have a regular mezuzah like
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A silver kind of... - it's small usually.
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This is the largest mezuzah i've ever seen.
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- the thing is that during those days that
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The muslims take over here, sometimes we've had
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Them rip off those silver housings, and so instead
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We put this thing on.
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You're not gonna walk out with this thing.
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You can't walk out.
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But also it gives us another sense that we
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Wanted to show, which is what it says here...
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[reading]
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"the gates to the garden of eden."
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That's what i was telling you, that according to
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Jewish lore, this is the entrance to
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The garden of eden.
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Adam and eve are buried here, so they tell you
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This is the gate of the garden of eden, so that
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Gives us a real sense of where we're going,
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And that's exactly where we're entering,
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So let's go to the garden of eden.
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- lead the way, yishai.
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- okay.
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Erick, you made it.
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- and it was worth it.
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- yeah, you made it to abraham's tomb.
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This is the tomb marker.
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It's important to understand this building
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Is like a box that you worship on on top of
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The tombs themselves.
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The tombs are below the building.
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This is a ceremonial kind of place that you get on
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Top of, and this is where you can touch the tombs
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Below, but the tomb is really, the cave complex
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Is underneath the building.
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Herod, two thousand years ago, put down this floor.
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Look at the floor erick. look at the floor.
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Two thousand year old floor.
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When you go to the city of david,
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They've uncovered the pilgrimage road.
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This is maybe the most important quarter mile in
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Jewish history but they just uncovered that.
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This thing never got covered up.
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This is a two thousand year old floor.
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We're standing on that right now. all right?
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And herod in his brilliance included these things.
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Here's a word that british people know,
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Cenotaph or tomb marker.
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He included inside this building six markers
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Equally distant from one another, same size, men
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And women, and we just got to the marker of
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Abraham. this is the tomb of abraham.
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Now when we focus, the idea of the building was
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When we focus and look at these markers,
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We're connecting to the essence of abraham.
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So there you go, we added this nice english,
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"tomb monument", that's why we say tomb monument
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Of the patriarch abraham.
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Now you see that it's covered in a muslim cloth
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Inside and that makes sense since they were
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Controlling this place for like 700 years.
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Today we share the site.
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But in any case, this is the founder of it all.
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This is abraham!
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- this is abraham and we cannot, no one i guess
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Can go into the cave complex where
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They are buried?
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- well, the truth is is my colleague
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Was one of the people who went down there
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1968 and again in 1981 and did study there
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And did take archaeological evidence
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Of the place, and we found evidence of first
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Temple jewish bones and jewish artifacts.
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- dating back nearly 3,000 years.
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- we found there evidence of the first
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Temple of jewish artifacts and jewish
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Bones, and that is all the way back for where
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When king david was around, so it's from
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A long time ago.
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And the building itself is a second temple
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Building, but in any case, these markers are
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Original to the building.
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They're original to the building, and people come
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Here all over the world, and i hope that more of
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The people that watch this program today will
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Come and connect to the founder of it all.
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- for a christian, i mean yishai, it's such a
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Special place. i'm awe struck to be here.
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Abraham's here, two markers for isaac, jacob,
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Rebekah, sarah, leah.
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- you know what erick, you said everything right
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But you said something a little bit wrong.
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- okay.
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- okay, you're right, those people are buried
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Here, but they're not buried abraham, isaac,
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And jacob, sarah, rebekah and leah.
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No. they're buried as couples.
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Abraham and sarah. isaac and rebekah.
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Jacob and leah.
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This is the first family.
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This is love.
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Do you remember virginia's got a tag line?
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"virginia is for lovers."
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I always say hebron is for lovers.
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It's about couples. it's about couples.
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It's about the first love.
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It's about the first family values.
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It's about the first family of israel,
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And it's the family really of all of us that
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Believe in abraham's way.
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Coming up after the break, we journey deeper into hebron
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And visit the tomb of jacob, the man who god
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Himself named israel.
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If that isn't a clear claim to the history of hebron,
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I don't know what it is. don't move.
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I don't know what it is. don't move.
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- one last mezuzah i wanted to show you.
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- beautiful!
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- what does this say?
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It says... [reading]
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"jacob and leah."
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- very special.
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I have a daughter named leah.
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She will love to watch this show no doubt.
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- that's right.
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And like i told you, it's about couples.
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It's about couples.
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Even the mezuzah is about the couples.
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It's about the love.
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The love is what gives birth to the nation.
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- it's a place of family.
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- that's right. it's a family place.
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Your show, if i would reduce it to one word,
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It's about israel.
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Let's go see the original israel.
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- let's do it.
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- erick, we're in front of the marker of jacob.
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Jacob's got another name: israel. israel.
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- that's where it all began.
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- right, that's like a super name.
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Jacob is like clark kent, okay?
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Israel!
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It's like that's when all the lions come together,
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All right, that's israel, when all the tribes are
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Aligned, that's israel.
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And jacob, he was the last to be buried here
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As we said before. and here is his marker.
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Right across from him is the marker of leah.
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As we said, couples.
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But sometimes the state of israel is not sure
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Should we hold onto this place?
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Should we give it up to the arabs?
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There's a lot of pressure.
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There's international pressure,
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There's jihadist pressure.
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There's a lot of pressure out there, but at
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The end of the day, our forefather jacob
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Is buried here.
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The very namesake of israel is this place.
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- here. - this is it.
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- it's tough to give up.
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- you can't give that up because if you give that
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Up, you give up who you are.
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Your very identity.
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And there are forces out there that want us to
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Give up our identity, but in the end, this is where
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It all began, this is where it's all going.
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At the end, we just want to become the real israel.
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We want to mature and graduate to be the
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Israel, the light unto the nations that we're
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Supposed to be, and you can't do that without
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Connection to this place.
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- that's right.
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- just like it says in the bible, how goodly are
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Your tents jacob, your dwelling places, israel.
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That's where we are. we're in the original
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Dwelling place of israel.
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And i just really want to thank you for giving me
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An opportunity to share this with you, and i want
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To thank god for giving me the chance of bringing
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You here today and to be with you, and for myself,
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For all of us to pray for the continuation of our
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Families that we may continue to link up with
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Our parents and the way that they brought us into
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This world and take it further into the
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Generations and to shine god's light unto the
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World. so thank you.
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- yishai, thank you so much.
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It was an honor and privilege to be
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With you my friend.
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I can't think of a better guide through the
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Ancient, such importance here in hebron.
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It can't be understated.
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I'm still pinching myself to be standing here with
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You in the shadow of our forefathers and the
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Mothers of our faith.
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Yishai, thank you so much,
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And the best is yet to come. amen.
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Folks, hebron is such a special place to visit.
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It really meant a lot to me
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To be there and to see such an important biblical site.
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When we come back, i'll share my final thoughts on hebron
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And why it's important to you today.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up, i want to remind you
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That hebron holds profound significance for every believer
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In the book of genesis.
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Hebron is where abraham settled after god called him.
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It was in hebron that abraham built an altar to the lord
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And receive
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The promise that his descendants would inherit the land.
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This is the land of covenant, the place where faith
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Met obedience.
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Hebron is also the burial site of the patriarchs
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Abraham, isaac, and jacob, and the matriarchs
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Sarah, rebecca, and leah in the cave of mark pillar.
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It stands as a physical testimony to god's covenant
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With his people.
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When you think of hebron, think of legacy.
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Think of promise.
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Think of a god who keeps his word through every generation.
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And centuries later,
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It was king david who was anointed in hebron,
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First as king over judah and then over all israel
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From hebron,
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The throne of david was established,
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Ultimately pointing us to the messiah,
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Jesus, the son of david, who reigns forever.
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So why does hebron matter today?
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Because it reminds us that god's promises do not expire.
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What he began with abraham, he fulfilled in christ,
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And he is still working today.
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Hebron calls us back to our roots,
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To the faithfulness of god and to the power of legacy.
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It's a call to walk in covenant, to believe boldly and
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To stand firm in our inheritance through christ.
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Hebron is more than a city.
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It's a symbol of god's unshakable faithfulness.
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So as you go about your week, remember hebron.
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Remember the promise.
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And remember
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You are part of a story that's much bigger than yourself.
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Thanks for joining us.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: August 29, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

August 29, 2025 | S25 E829 | 23:35

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