Torah Pearls #1 – Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8)

Torah Pearls Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8)

This inaugural episode of The Original Torah Pearls, Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8), kicks off with a “Portion101” and then game on. Gap theory, hyper-literalism, parallelism, something from nothing or something from something? Old earth or young earth? Cosmic battle or crafty animal just doing his thing? What hovered . . . an angel, wind, the “Holy Spirit”? Interpretations abound, but to Gordon, sometimes an “et” is just an “et.” What was hot-wired into the sun and moon on the fourth day? Despite chapter manipulations by an Archbishop of Canterbury what climaxes the creation story—mankind or Shabbat? Moving away from theories and interpretations, Johnson shares his own take on the creation story—where the original language speaks to him in such a way that he sees and feels the darkness flee and the light be.

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Prayer Requests – Live Update Thursday, October 12

Watch Nehemia and Lynell’s last update live from Israel on Thursday, October 12.

"Please pray for our family and all the men and women that are on the front lines here, pray that God will heal the survivors, pray for the hostages..."

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Israel at War Day 2

Nehemia joins Steven Pynakker of Mormon Book Reviews and LDS (Mormon) author Dr. Jason Olson for a special, emergency episode exploring Hamas's unprovoked, brutal war inside Israeli territory. Nehemia, recording from Jerusalem, gives the latest inside the land of Israel and the war in real-time. We explore Hamas's intentions to destroy the Jewish state, the Biblical, moral call to stand with Israel, and the LDS perspective on the prophetic significance of the ingathering of the Jewish Exiles

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Hebrew Voices #168 – Israelite Archaeology at the Israel Museum

In this episode of Hebrew Voices #168- “Israelite Archaeology at the Israel Museum,” Nehemia takes us on a tour tracing archaeological history from ancient Israel all the way through the Roman Exile. Pieces include the oldest surviving texts of the Hebrew Bible, the earliest surviving inscription of Jerusalem, and depictions of the Assyrians besieging the Northern Israelites.