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Is it better to pray in Hebrew or a language you understand? Today we learn the importance of praying in the original. If you’re not there yet, it’s something you must strive to attain!

Author and scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz shares with us insights from his newest book, The Aramaic Jesus, Hidden Teachings On Life And Death. Join us as Neil brilliantly expands upon the deeper meaning behind many of Jesus’ most famous teachings in a way that is heart-felt, practical and tangible. Discover why it is necessary to hear the words of Jesus through the Aramaic lens, explore concepts of Heaven and Hell and gain insight into what is necessary and what is most difficult to create a global change.

Highlights

• Gain a more expansive understanding of Jesus’s teachings on life and death.
• Understand why it is necessary to re-look at Jesus’s teachings through the language of Aramaic.
• Discover how the language itself can dramatically change the underlying meaning of Jesus’s teachings.
• Discover how individual shifts in consciousness make a huge impact on the world around us.
• Learn about how Jesus spoke of the importance of the heart.
• Discover some expanded understandings of the Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes.
• Learn where human consciousness is at this time.
• Gain insights as to how judgement paralyzes you.
• Learn what the Aramaic word for ‘death’ actually means.
• Explore concepts of Heaven and Hell.
• Discover what is necessary and what is most difficult to create a global change.

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The Second Sunday in Advent.  Join us for Episode 26 of "How to Speak Catholic," a reflection on the Gospel reading from Matthew 3 for the 2nd Sunday of Advent.

How does some basic understanding of a few Aramaic words impact our understanding of John the Baptist's words in this Gospel? How does Genesis 3 tie into this reading?

Let's dig into the meat of this reading and see how it helps prepare us for the next step in our spiritual journey.

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse on Thanksgiving 2022. Isaac and Jacob choose brides from Aram. Aramaic is the chosen legal and liturgical language of the Rabbis and the lingua franca of the Ancient world. Why is Laban vilified and should we slander or offer our gratitude to the Arameans?

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Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2022/11/23/lost-found-in-translation/ 

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Professor Sebastian Brock of Oxford University, Scholar of Eastern Christianity and Aramaic-Syriac Saints, has translated many beautiful, poetic spiritual texts of Eastern Mystics such as Isaac of Nineveh, Joseph the Visionary, John of Dalyatha, and so many more in, The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life, and other spiritual classics of Christian Mysticism and the Contemplative Tradition (Gnosis, the Church of the East). Also today we explore the Jesus Sutras that were discovered in China.

Everything you think you know about the “Our Father” or “Lord’s Prayer” goes up in smoke as Dr Neil Douglas-Klotz guides us into the sound and meaning of the prayer in Aramaic. From the get-go, it’s a shock. Our father? Maybe not! Whether you have loved this prayer or avoided it like a plague of patriarchy, you are in for a sweet surprise. As Neil extracts the prayer from 2,000 years of mistranslation, you just might find yourself falling in love.

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Hate is a horrible thing.

Hate unbridled and unchecked is a murderous thing.

Hate in name of God is terrifying and terrorizing thing.

And as you are about to hear in this PODCAST, hate in the name of God is indeed a terrorizing thing because such religious hatred is actually viewed by the hater as a righteous thing.

Just ask a certain Pharisee—emphasis upon that lofty religious title, Pharisee, since it goes to the very heart of this story—named Saul. Yes! Saul was a Pharisee.

On the night before He was executed, as Jesus and His now-eleven disciples were slinking through the dark alleys of Jerusalem, literally one step ahead of His betraying-disciple Judas, the Temple guards, and the Roman cohort that Judas was leading to arrest and ultimately to crucify Jesus, Jesus made this chilling statement which should have given His disciples pause, assuming that in that desperate hour they had presence of mind to pause.

It’s found in John 16:2, where Jesus said this: “The time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.”

A prediction, a prophecy that has historically come to pass in our day—the bitter result of religious extremism—far too many times to count. Bloodshed in the name of God. Be that blood shed at the hands of the Christian Crusaders, Muslim suicide bombers, or a now-ranking member of Sanhedrin—keep that label in mind; it too goes to heart of this story—Saul.

From where did Saul’s unbridled fury, his murderous hatred for Jesus and all things Jesus-related come?

Tonight, we will consider together much of what is often overlooked in any discussion about Saul-to-become-Paul’s background.

All of which will expose the degree to which God went when preparing His “Apostle to the Gentiles.”

Indeed, Paul will write in wonder in Galatians 2:8, “For by God's power I was made an apostle to the Gentiles.”

That power was clearly at work in Paul’s/Saul’s past. And as you are about to hear, that power was equally at work in Saul’s present here in Acts 9.

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Paul Lemon, whose story you heard in episode 24, guides us through an explanation of and meditation on the Lords prayer.

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It was a scandal in the making.

As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, a vast cultural divide threatened to rip asunder the fragile fabric of unity these first believers in Jesus earlier enjoyed.

As we learned last week (Podcast #27), the story begins, “But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. The Greek-speaking believers complained about the Hebrew-speaking believers, saying that their widows were being discriminated against in the daily distribution of food.”

That was, as you will remember, a dire situation for these precious widows. Dire in the extreme. Women who had lost their husbands, and who were now among the most vulnerable in that male-dominated society. Females forced to live in a world that diminished women to a subservient status. One that rendered them uneducated, unskilled, unemployable, utterly without resources. Totally dependent.

Now that they had become followers of Jesus, they could not return to their synagogues for support. Not to worry. We read earlier in Acts 2 that “(These first believers) would sell their property and possessions and give the money to whoever needed it… and shared their food happily and freely.”

Not any more.

Last week, we went into much detail about the collision of cultures faced by these early believers. A vast cultural divide between the Greek-speaking (Hellenistic) believers who were in the minority, and Hebrew-speaking believers who were in the majority. A cultural divide of church-splitting potential.

So wide a divide that the majority discriminated against the minority to the risk of the lives of Greek-speaking widows.

This was serious. So serious that the Apostles (all Twelve of the Apostles) were forced to drop everything in order to address problem.

Their solution was nothing short of brilliant! For them. And for us!

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