Heat Waves in Israel, Holy Mall Revival, Human Compost, Psalm Dust, and Shmutz (Episode #210)

🎧 Episode Rundown: Dancing Intros, Psalm Dust, & Pierogi Politics

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🕍 Antisemitism Alert

📢 Article: JPost - Antisemitism on the Rise

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-863795?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

• Shocking new data and headlines from the Jewish world.
  
  
  
  


• What does this mean for Christians who stand with Israel?
  
  
  
  

🔥 Heatwave Hits the Holy Land

🌡️ Article: JPost - Record Temps

https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-863747?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

• The Middle East is heating up—literally.
  
  
  
  


• Environmental shake-ups and the global ripple effect.
  
  
  
  

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chosen People vs. Chosen Generation?

🧠 Article: JPost - Chosen Identity

https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-863747?utm_source=jpost.app.apple&utm_medium=share

• Are Gen Z and Jewish identity colliding or aligning?
  
  
  
  


• Who defines chosenness in 2025?
  
  
  
  

📖 Devotional Dive – Psalm 119: Daled (vv. 25–32)

• From delight (v.24) ➡ to dust (v.25): a spiritual drop.
  
  
  
  


• Chris: “No wonder my wife calls me the prophet of doom—every high point comes with a ‘just wait.’”
  
  
  
  


• 🔑 Key themes:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • “Teach me” (v.26) 📚
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • “Make me understand” (v.27) 💭
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • “Strengthen me” (v.28) 💪
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • “Cling to Your testimonies” (v.31) 🙌
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • “Enlarge my heart” — God’s Word expands our capacity for Him ❤️
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

🗞 News Blitz

1. 🩸 Former PA PM Praises Oct 7
   
   📰 Breitbart Report
   
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/10/former-palestinian-authority-pm-praises-oct-7-massacre-courageous-hamas-plo-unity/
   
   
   
   

• He called it courageous. We call it evil.
  
  
  
  

1. 🏬 Churches in Shopping Malls
   
   📰 CNBC Feature
   
   https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/09/americas-dying-shopping-malls-have-surprising-rebound-in-store.html
   
   
   
   

• Dead malls… now revived with the Gospel?
  
  
  
  

1. 🥟 Pierogis for Dershowitz
   
   📰 Fox News Opinion
   
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-dershowitz-takes-pierogi-politics-leftist-hypocrisy
   
   
   
   

• Food, politics, and Jewish identity—served hot.
  
  
  
  

1. 🌱 Human Composting
   
   📰 USA Today
   
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/09/states-legalize-human-composting/85454339007/
   
   
   
   

• From dust we came… to compost we return?
  
  
  
  

🗣 Yiddish Word of the Week

Shmutz (שׁמוץ) — n. dust, grime

• “My soul clings to the shmutz.” Psalm 119:25, paraphrased.

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