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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Decoding the Torah | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 11, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck, and we may have just witnessed
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- A dry run for an israeli attack on iran's nuclear sites.
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- On tuesday, for the first time ever, the israeli navy
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- Carried out strikes in yemen.
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- It is believed to be the longest ever offensive action
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- By israeli missile boats.
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- The strikes from the red sea targeted
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- The port of hodeidah in western yemen,
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- Which is controlled by iran backed houthi terrorists.
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- That port is located some 1100 miles
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- Away from israel, which is very interesting
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- Because iran is also about 1100 miles from israel.
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- More on that in a minute.
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- Now, tuesday's naval strike in yemen was the 11th such strike
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- By israel against the houthis in the past year.
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- The others were all carried out by the israeli air force.
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- Folks, i believe these israeli
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- Operations in yemen have two purposes.
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- Number one,
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- To crush the houthis and prevent them from firing
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- Missiles at israel on an almost daily basis,
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- Like we've seen these past few months.
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- But secondly, i believe israeli leaders see israel
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- Strikes in yemen as a dry run of sorts
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- For a coming assault on iran's nuclear program.
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- Over the past year,
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- The israeli military has proven repeatedly, first by air
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- And now by sea, that it is capable of traveling
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- Long distances to accomplish difficult missions.
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- And it doesn't get more difficult than destroying
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- Iran's nuclear sites,
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- Which are scattered throughout that country and heavily
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- Fortified, including some buried deep underground.
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- An israeli attack in iran could last several days
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- And would likely include strikes from both air and sea,
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- Plus perhaps some special forces and cyber elements.
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- Look, when it comes to improbable
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- Daring military and intelligence operations,
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- No one does it better than israel.
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- Remember, the window for any diplomatic
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- Solution is rapidly closing.
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- President trump said tuesday that iran's regime
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- Is becoming more aggressive in its nuclear negotiations
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- With the united states.
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- The clock is ticking.
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- Israel will not allow iran to acquire nuclear weapons, and
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- The ayatollahs are very close to doing exactly that.
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- So when you see the idf carrying out successful
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- Strikes in yemen, which again, is some 1100 miles from israel,
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- Just like iran, we know that there is a much bigger strategy
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- That's unfolding.
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- Up next, our tbn israel correspondent,
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- Yaya pinto joins us from jerusalem to break down
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- What this all means for israel, america and you.
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- And it all starts now.
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- He is our tbn israel correspondent
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- And co-host of the great weekly show boots on the ground, seen
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- Right here on tbn every thursday night at 9:30 p.m.
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- Eastern time.
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- Our good friend yaya pinto joins us now from jerusalem
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- And hear some breaking news here as you come to us.
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- You just emerged from a bomb shelter
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- Where you live outside of jerusalem.
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- Your wife and your kids are there now.
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- What exactly is happening?
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- Why did you have to take shelter?
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- Well, i think as i'm preparing to go
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- Live with you on this show, i see a missile.
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- And then two interceptions in the sky.
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- And then, of course, the phones started ringing
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- That we should seek shelter because the route is launched.
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- Another ballistic missile towards israel.
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- And thank god this missile was intercepted.
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- The my family's safe.
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- The people of israel is safe.
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- We are well accustomed to these missile attacks.
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- They happen about three times every week.
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- Yeah, well, i don't know how many months, basically
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- Since this war started.
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- So everybody's safe.
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- And this missile attack is in response to an israeli
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- Navy commando style strike of sophisticated missiles
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- At the strongholds at their ports
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- In judah, in yemen, just four hours ago.
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- So this is the situation that he's just unveiling now in
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- This war between israel, iran and their proxies, the houthis.
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- Yeah, and i talked about that at the top.
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- The significance of that naval strike by israel,
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- Israeli military officials
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- Here are saying it was unprecedented.
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- Do you see this?
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- Look, yemen, about 1100 miles from israel.
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- Iran, about 1100 miles from israel.
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- Israel has proven over the past year,
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- With these strikes in yemen, that it can travel
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- Long distances to get the job done.
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- Do you think that's part of the thinking here?
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- The ultimate goal,
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- The biggest threat, obviously destroy iran's nuclear program.
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- Do you think that israel is showing
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- With these successful strikes in yemen,
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- That it is very capable of doing just that in iran as well?
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- Yes. erick israel approved already to iran itself
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- Back in after october that it can strike
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- In iranian territory and can dismantle
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- The antiaircraft defensive systems of the islamic republic
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- That are supposedly guarding the nuclear facilities.
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- And with these ongoing strikes and houthi targets in yemen,
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- Which is the same distance as iran,
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- Israel is training its air force and also today
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- Its naval forces.
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- And this is the first time that israel is using advanced
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- Missile strike from the sea to the ground that can carry
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- Specific and and accurate the text and routed targets.
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- So if we can do it against the houthis in yemen,
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- The iranians know that we can do it against the nuclear
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- Installations and other irgc.
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- I mean, command stations and military targets in iran.
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- We've proved before and we can do it, you know,
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- If the time comes for that.
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- Yeah, you're great points all around.
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- You and i were talking off-camera.
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- The clock is ticking.
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- This is the time to take out that iranian nuclear program
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- And eliminate, god willing, this existential threat.
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- Hey, switching gears a bit, we're talking navy.
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- We had this flotilla, the so-called freedom flotilla,
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- Including greta thunberg, formerly
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- A climate activist, now an anti-israel activist.
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- The israeli navy intercepted this so-called flotilla, sent
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- Greta back home.
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- What did you make of this whole operation?
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- Number one and number two,
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- Obviously, part of the larger anti-israel movement
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- Among the radical left in europe and right here
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- In the united states.
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- Yeah.
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- In israel, we call this the selfie flotilla,
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- Because these activists coming to israel
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- Do not care about the palestinian people.
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- They brought down their ship, maybe one truckload of food.
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- And on every given day, israel is a providing 1200
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- Food trucks into the palestinian people in the gaza strip.
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- So what they are doing
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- Is not really saving the palestinian people.
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- What they wanted to do is to get attention for themselves.
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- And they didn't want to reach the gaza strip.
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- They wanted to create a scene.
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- They wanted to antagonize the idf troops
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- That were apprehending them, and then post that
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- And post the videos on social media platforms.
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- What happened at the end
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- Was that our troops came, boarded the ship, took
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- All these activists to israel,
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- Got all the humanitarian aid out of this ship,
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- Put it on a truck,
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- And then sent it to the gaza strip
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- And gave it to the palestinian people.
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- Israel gave the food to the palestinian people.
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- And these anti-israel activists and pro terror
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- Activists went back home to their houses.
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- And you know what they did?
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- Then they posted videos saying that they were kidnaped
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- By the israeli security forces, by the idf.
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- Yeah.
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- I mean, they have no clue what's going on.
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- And while there were held in israel, the defense ministry
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- Showed them
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- The video of the atrocities that hamas committed
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- On october 7th.
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- They wanted to let them know, maybe
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- Educate them of what's happening and what happened.
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- And you know what they did?
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- I think they will not watch the video.
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- They turned around
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- And they refused to watch the video of what hamas did.
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- This is a spiritual war and the enemy is brainwashing
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- The people around the world with lies and with distortion.
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- And it just drives me crazy to see that the world
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- Is choosing to believe a terrorist organization, hamas,
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- And internationally recognize a terrorist organization
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- And not the only democratic country in the middle east,
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- Which is israel.
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- Yeah.
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- So we need to pray about the situation.
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- Amen. it's especially maddening for you.
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- Yeah, because you are a brave soldier in the idf.
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- You fought against hamas in gaza.
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- But here's the good news.
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- You're doing great work from god's land.
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- You're bringing the truth to us
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- And around the world through your youtube channel.
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- And of course, boots on the ground, seen
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- Right here on tbn every thursday night, 9:30 p.m.
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- Eastern time. yeah. thank you so much, my friend.
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- Go back with your family. be safe.
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- We're praying for you. we're praying for israel.
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- God bless you. we'll see you again soon.
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- And coming up after the break, we're talking about israel,
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- The place where the torah came forth from.
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- So why does the torah matter to you, to every christian?
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- Rabbi kurt schneider joins us after the break
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- With a great breakdown. you don't want to miss that.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- Folks, too many people today
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- Think the torah is just a dusty list of rules.
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- But it's so much more than that.
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- The torah is a living blueprint, a divine roadmap
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- Packed with spiritual power for your life today.
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- And as believers in yeshua
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- Jesus, we're called not to ignore it, but
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- To understand it more deeply than ever before.
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- Rabbi kurt schneider's new book, decoding the torah
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- Applying ancient wisdom in a modern world,
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- Is a powerful guide to bridging the gap
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- Between god's ancient commands and how they apply to our lives
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- Today.
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- As followers of jesus, rabbi, of course, is host of discovering
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- The jewish jesus and a bestselling
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- Author many times over. and he joins us now.
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- Rabbi, always great to see you and what a book
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- You and i were talking off-camera
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- I really don't think there's been a book written like this.
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- Rabbi, you're breaking new ground here.
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- Ancient ground, but new ground in a sense.
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- But a lot of people,
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- Rabbi mentioned in the lead in would say, well, the torah,
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- That was great for the ancient israelites.
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- It's great for the jewish people still.
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- But look, i'm a follower of jesus.
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- Maybe i'm a gentile.
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- No significance for me.
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- How do you respond to that?
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- Well, it's such an interesting phenomenon
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- That people have made the mistake,
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- And it goes all the way back, erick, to constantine
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- In the three hundreds that tried to disconnect christianity
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- From judaism.
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- There's been this
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- Semitic mindset in the theology of the church.
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- And as a result of that, people make the mistake of confusing
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- The fact that
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- Because we're not under the law, which were not yeshua,
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- Jesus released us from the penalty of the law.
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- But that does not mean that the law
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- Is not extremely relevant for believers lives today,
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- Whether you're a jew
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- Or a gentile, because the law is a way
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- Of connectivity with the lord.
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- That's why yeshua said in the in the gospel of matthew
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- Chapter five, do not think i've come to abolish the law.
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- I have not come to abolish but fulfill.
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- And then he went on to say, and everybody
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- That teaches others to forsake
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- The law will be called least in the kingdom of god.
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- But those who teach others how to live by the principles
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- And the truth of the law and the prophets
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- Will be called greatest in the kingdom of god.
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- The law is an elementary grace,
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- And as we apply it
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- To the nitty gritty details of our life,
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- It actually is a way to connectivity with our creator.
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- Yeah, and rabbi, we think of the torah.
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- We think, of course, of the ten commandments.
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- And you write about this in the book, the concept of monotheism
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- Really begins in the torah, right?
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- Absolutely. the
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- Faith and the one eternal lord is actually one of the laws.
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- You know, there are 613 laws in the torah
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- According to our rabbis.
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- And it's really interesting that we have 365
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- Naked of commandments in the law, 248 positive
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- Commandments, and the two combined make up 613
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- And you think about israel,
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- Those of us that have been to israel.
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- The most famous fruit there is the pomegranate.
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- And according to jewish
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- Tradition, the pinecone has 613 seeds in it.
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- So it may be a little more, it may be a little, little less.
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- But you know, the colors
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- Of judaism, say the pomegranate have 613 seeds.
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- Well, what i really like about that
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- Is that the high priest of israel
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- Was commanded in the torah
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- To wear pomegranates from the hem of his garment.
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- So the laws of the of of the torah are applicable
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- For every disciple of jesus.
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- And we don't approach them out of a spirit of legalism.
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- We approach them with the understanding
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- That god wants to invade every part of our lives.
- 00:13:56.319 --> 00:13:59.656
- Talk more, rabbi, about jesus's relation to the torah.
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- How did he view the torah?
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- Was jesus a torah observant jew?
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- Well, he absolutely was a torah observant jew.
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- And he brought the law to its completion,
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- To its fulfillment by living it in its fullest sense.
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- You know,
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- I love rabbinic judaism because i think that there's
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- So much there to be valued and emulated.
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- But unfortunately, as you know, erick, rabbinic judaism
- 00:14:25.315 --> 00:14:28.318
- Kind of got carried away.
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- And they took god's law and they added
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- All these additional laws to it, and things got convoluted.
- 00:14:32.355 --> 00:14:36.025
- But jesus didn't go beyond the law.
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- He kept the law in its true essence and purpose.
- 00:14:39.462 --> 00:14:43.066
- This is a really fascinating point.
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- The the as i mentioned, constantine began to introduce
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- An anti-semitic,
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- Mindset into the church all the way back
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- In the three hundreds that has endured to this day.
- 00:14:53.876 --> 00:14:56.779
- And we see this
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- Evidenced in the king james translation of the bible.
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- I'm not picking on the king james.
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- I love all translations of the bible that are
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- That are rooted in the word.
- 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:05.488
- But every translation of the bible is somewhat influenced
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- By the theology of the day of the translators.
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- So in the king
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- James version of the bible, in john chapter one, verse 17,
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- We read these words for the law was given by moses.
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- But notice the word, but, but grace and truth came by
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- Jesus christ.
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- So you'll notice there that by using the word.
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- But the king james translators thought that the law
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- That was given to us through moses is opposite the grace
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- That's come to us through jesus, like they're two opposite.
- 00:15:37.153 --> 00:15:40.423
- But the reality is the law is not opposite the grace of god.
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- The law
- 00:15:44.093 --> 00:15:45.294
- Was an elementary grace of god to prepare us for the messiah.
- 00:15:45.294 --> 00:15:48.731
- The king james translators, by the way,
- 00:15:48.731 --> 00:15:50.366
- Actually corrected it, and they removed the word.
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- But in the new king james version, no, jesus kept the law.
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- And as i said in matthew chapter five, he said, teachers
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- That teach his disciples how to live by the true purpose
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- Of the law and the essence of the laws
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- Will be called greatest era in the kingdom of god.
- 00:16:07.483 --> 00:16:11.354
- And i, rabbi, so well said.
- 00:16:11.354 --> 00:16:13.656
- I don't know that the average believer
- 00:16:13.656 --> 00:16:15.024
- Even realizes the debt we owe to the torah.
- 00:16:15.024 --> 00:16:18.261
- That's why i'm so glad you've written
- 00:16:18.261 --> 00:16:19.629
- This great book,
- 00:16:19.629 --> 00:16:20.630
- Decoding the torah more with our good friend
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- Rabbi kurt schneider after the break.
- 00:16:22.632 --> 00:16:24.567
- What about shabbat, the sabbath?
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- What about idols?
- 00:16:27.070 --> 00:16:28.571
- What does the torah have to say about that?
- 00:16:28.571 --> 00:16:30.373
- And why is that relevant for you today?
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- More with rabbi kurt schneider after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight,
- 00:16:42.394 --> 00:16:43.395
- We're talking to our good friend, rabbi kurt
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- Schneider, host of discovering the jewish jesus and author
- 00:16:44.596 --> 00:16:47.132
- Of the great new book decoding the torah.
- 00:16:47.132 --> 00:16:50.402
- Rabbi. shabbat. the sabbath.
- 00:16:50.402 --> 00:16:53.338
- Obviously, that's derived from the torah.
- 00:16:53.338 --> 00:16:56.108
- Talk about why that day of rest,
- 00:16:56.108 --> 00:16:57.976
- That ancient torah wisdom which you describe in the book,
- 00:16:57.976 --> 00:17:01.113
- Is important for everyone, not just the jewish people.
- 00:17:01.113 --> 00:17:05.183
- It absolutely is.
- 00:17:05.617 --> 00:17:06.751
- And by the way, the word torah, it doesn't mean law.
- 00:17:06.751 --> 00:17:09.421
- It means instruction.
- 00:17:09.421 --> 00:17:10.822
- So, for example, with shabbat, although it's in the law,
- 00:17:10.822 --> 00:17:13.992
- Which is part of the torah, shabbat is actually introduced
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- To us in the very
- 00:17:17.195 --> 00:17:18.330
- First chapters of genesis before the law was given.
- 00:17:18.330 --> 00:17:21.433
- God created the world in six days,
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- And he rested on the seventh and sanctified it.
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- The first time the word holy kadosh,
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- Which is translated to english, has sanctified it.
- 00:17:30.008 --> 00:17:32.344
- The first time the word holy is actually used in the bible.
- 00:17:32.344 --> 00:17:35.647
- And this is really interesting, erick, we think about your body
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- As being a day of rest, and it absolutely is.
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- But what we fail
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- To realize about shabbat is this additional facet of it.
- 00:17:43.021 --> 00:17:46.391
- Every time the lord created something
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- When he was creating the world and, you know,
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- He created the fish, said they were good.
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- He created the mammals and said they were good.
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- The cows, the livestock.
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- After each act of creation.
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- He said it was good.
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- And then after the entire creation,
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- He said it was very good.
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- And then he rested on the seventh day.
- 00:18:04.342 --> 00:18:06.845
- So what did he do on that seventh day when he was resting?
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- He was delighting in everything that he had made.
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- So he was taking joy in his great, in his creation.
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- So shabbat involves two things.
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- Number one involves disconnecting from work,
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- From being a human doing, to being a human being.
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- Disconnecting from the technology
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- And the things that cause us stress.
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- So shabbat
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- Is about resting to encounter the lord a fresh and a new.
- 00:18:32.270 --> 00:18:35.807
- But shabbat is also a sensual experience.
- 00:18:35.807 --> 00:18:38.543
- Now, when i say sensual, people think sex.
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- But i'm not talking just about sex.
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- I'm talking about our senses.
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- So shabbat is about experiencing essentially
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- All the good things
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- That god has made
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- In his creation and delighting in what he's made.
- 00:18:50.455 --> 00:18:53.491
- That's why the lord said in isaiah chapter 58,
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- If you cease from doing your own thing on my holy day
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- And call the sabbath, delight,
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- He said, i will make you ride on the heights of the earth.
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- I'm telling
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- Jesus said in mark two that the sabbath was made for man.
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- He didn't say it was made for jews.
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- He said it was made for men.
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- I encourage
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- Everybody to study more about the principle of the sabbath
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- And the presence of god. it's not about legalism.
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- It's about a spiritual opportunity to be blessed.
- 00:19:21.186 --> 00:19:23.221
- Rabbi, so important, so well said.
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- I found that to be a very important
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- Principle in my life,
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- Getting that rest every week that god has granted us.
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- Amazing. hey, in the torah, of course.
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- Can you break this down in the book as well?
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- Idolatry.
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- Now, obviously the ancient israelites
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- Had to fend off the idolatry that was around them.
- 00:19:37.802 --> 00:19:40.805
- Bail in these false gods.
- 00:19:40.805 --> 00:19:42.440
- But we're talking about the relevance of the torah today.
- 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:46.411
- What kind of idolatry do we have in our own lives today, rabbi,
- 00:19:46.411 --> 00:19:50.582
- That we always need to guard against?
- 00:19:50.582 --> 00:19:53.218
- Absolutely.
- 00:19:53.551 --> 00:19:54.252
- Yeah. you think about idolatry.
- 00:19:54.252 --> 00:19:55.520
- We could talk about it in so many different
- 00:19:55.520 --> 00:19:56.821
- Facets, things that we put in front of god and america.
- 00:19:56.821 --> 00:20:00.759
- We live in such a dangerous world right now
- 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:02.894
- With the with with the ai and the social media.
- 00:20:02.894 --> 00:20:05.530
- Of course, i understand that these things
- 00:20:05.530 --> 00:20:06.931
- Could be very valuable tools, but the truth is
- 00:20:06.931 --> 00:20:09.100
- They are taking their their place in the heart of man.
- 00:20:09.100 --> 00:20:12.504
- That man can no longer be still in the lord's presence
- 00:20:12.504 --> 00:20:15.840
- Because we've been taken captive by an idol.
- 00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:18.677
- Our addiction to social technologies,
- 00:20:18.677 --> 00:20:21.479
- Our addiction to success, our addiction
- 00:20:21.479 --> 00:20:24.349
- To beauty, all these things, unfortunately and sadly,
- 00:20:24.349 --> 00:20:29.521
- Have taken their place in the, in the seat of our soul.
- 00:20:29.521 --> 00:20:34.659
- Idolatry is a very real problem, and we need to be open.
- 00:20:34.659 --> 00:20:38.496
- And i'm speaking to all of us
- 00:20:38.496 --> 00:20:40.031
- Now, myself included, to the holy spirit, to be able
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- To show us what in our life are we putting before the lord?
- 00:20:42.801 --> 00:20:47.005
- Yeah, it's
- 00:20:47.305 --> 00:20:48.139
- Just a different sort of idolatry,
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- I guess you could say today, rabbi,
- 00:20:49.607 --> 00:20:51.242
- And the chronic busyness of life that many of us fall prey to.
- 00:20:51.242 --> 00:20:54.946
- Hey, last question.
- 00:20:54.946 --> 00:20:56.348
- Some christians, again, when they approach the torah,
- 00:20:56.348 --> 00:20:59.317
- They may be a little intimidated.
- 00:20:59.317 --> 00:21:00.785
- They may see leviticus and see the law and etc.
- 00:21:00.785 --> 00:21:03.922
- And say, wow, it's not for me.
- 00:21:04.522 --> 00:21:06.791
- This is too much.
- 00:21:06.791 --> 00:21:07.926
- What would your final admonition be to
- 00:21:07.926 --> 00:21:10.862
- Anyone who is looking to get deeper into the torah?
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- How would you encourage followers of jesus, number
- 00:21:13.998 --> 00:21:17.235
- One, to dig into the torah?
- 00:21:17.235 --> 00:21:18.503
- And number two, why they should pick
- 00:21:18.503 --> 00:21:19.771
- Up your book and learn more.
- 00:21:19.771 --> 00:21:21.439
- Thank you brother.
- 00:21:21.873 --> 00:21:22.741
- Well, the lord has given teachers
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- To the church
- 00:21:24.409 --> 00:21:25.510
- Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers
- 00:21:25.510 --> 00:21:28.146
- For the equipping of the saints.
- 00:21:28.146 --> 00:21:29.214
- What i've done in this book as a teacher
- 00:21:29.214 --> 00:21:31.383
- Is i've broken it down
- 00:21:31.383 --> 00:21:32.517
- So simply so that every law is only 2 or 3 pages.
- 00:21:32.517 --> 00:21:36.688
- So you don't have to be a genius or know hebrew to be able
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- To understand what i'm saying.
- 00:21:40.291 --> 00:21:41.926
- I very briefly and simply explain what the laws meant
- 00:21:41.926 --> 00:21:46.498
- To israel in their original historical context,
- 00:21:46.498 --> 00:21:50.201
- And how they apply to us today as christians.
- 00:21:50.201 --> 00:21:52.871
- This is the most important book that i've ever
- 00:21:52.871 --> 00:21:56.007
- Written in my life.
- 00:21:56.007 --> 00:21:57.142
- There's never been a book written like this before.
- 00:21:57.142 --> 00:21:59.477
- The church.
- 00:21:59.477 --> 00:22:00.412
- God's people desperately need to read it.
- 00:22:00.412 --> 00:22:03.014
- Yeah.
- 00:22:03.014 --> 00:22:03.715
- Rabbi, at a time of replacement
- 00:22:03.715 --> 00:22:04.949
- Theology, growing anti-semitism.
- 00:22:04.949 --> 00:22:07.118
- Absolutely. this book is for these times.
- 00:22:07.118 --> 00:22:09.821
- It's called decoding the torah.
- 00:22:09.821 --> 00:22:11.556
- You can pick it out
- 00:22:11.556 --> 00:22:12.457
- At amazon.com wherever books are sold.
- 00:22:12.457 --> 00:22:14.793
- Rabbi, thanks so much. great job on the book.
- 00:22:14.793 --> 00:22:17.595
- We will see you again soon. god bless you, rabbi.
- 00:22:17.595 --> 00:22:19.931
- And coming up after the break, my final thoughts on
- 00:22:19.931 --> 00:22:22.700
- That ancient torah wisdom and why we need it.
- 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:26.504
- That's next. don't move.
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- That's next. don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- As we wrap up here, we're talking about that
- 00:22:35.845 --> 00:22:37.580
- Torah wisdom with rabbi kurt schneider.
- 00:22:37.580 --> 00:22:39.816
- While it still applies for every believer today
- 00:22:39.816 --> 00:22:41.884
- And in earlier in the show,
- 00:22:41.884 --> 00:22:43.352
- Talking to our good friend jair pinto from jerusalem as he took
- 00:22:43.352 --> 00:22:46.155
- Shelter, quite literally from hooting missiles incoming!
- 00:22:46.155 --> 00:22:49.292
- It makes me think of the book of deuteronomy.
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- We're talking torah. chapter 33, verse 29.
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- Blessed are you, israel,
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- Who is like you, a people saved by the lord.
- 00:22:55.965 --> 00:22:59.135
- He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword.
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- Your enemies
- 00:23:02.939 --> 00:23:04.140
- Will cower before you, and you will tread on their heights.
- 00:23:04.140 --> 00:23:07.810
- Amen. israel will prevail.
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- It will not only survive, it will thrive.
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- Tomorrow night.
- 00:23:12.682 --> 00:23:13.316
- But the younger sargon is
- 00:23:13.316 --> 00:23:14.717
- With us talking about reviving the working class in america.
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- Imagine that.
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- Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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