
Ep. 47 - Why Bother Praying?
This episode opens as the three guests rise from Avraham's table and set out toward Sodom. G-d then tells Avraham about the impending destruction of Sodom. Avraham prays to save the city, but his prayer will not work. G-

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A Marvelous journey through the Bible, the Torah. Presented by Rabbi Bentzi Epstein of TORCH Dallas!
TORCH hosts Breakneck Through the Bible · Rabbi Bentzi Epstein, a religion show with 47 episodes published.

This episode opens as the three guests rise from Avraham's table and set out toward Sodom. G-d then tells Avraham about the impending destruction of Sodom. Avraham prays to save the city, but his prayer will not work. G-

Last episode, Avraham sent a messenger to bring his guests water. Everything else, he did himself. This episode picks up where that left off, as Avraham runs to prepare a full meal for the three guests waiting under his

Avraham rushes to host three strangers and personally oversees every detail. Everything, that is, except the water. For that, he sends a messenger. Rabbi Bentzi Epstein and Tom unpack a chain of cause and effect that str

It's been three days since Avraham's circumcision. He is in pain, sweating in the midday heat, when G-d comes to visit him. Then three strangers appear in the distance, and Avraham runs toward them, brings them into his

Avraham has already passed nine of his ten tests, and G-d is standing in front of him with a covenant that will be stamped into the flesh of every Jewish male for the rest of history. The questions that come out of this

Avram is 99 years old when Hashem appears to him with a new name for Himself, El Shaddai, and an interesting command: walk before Me and be perfect. Rabbi Epstein and Tom spend this episode unpacking what that actually a

The Haggadah tells us that if we don't mention three things on Seder night, we haven't fulfilled the mitzvah: Pesach, Matzah, and Maror. But why reduce one of the most layered nights of the Jewish year to three items? Wh

Sarai had a plan. Unable to conceive, she tells Avram to take her maidservant Hagar as a concubine. Whatever child comes from this union will be hers. She picks Hagar deliberately, having spent ten years watching her, tr

Sarai, the matriarch of the Jewish people, makes a stunning statement to her husband: take Hagar, my maidservant, as a concubine. Whatever child comes from this will be mine. This episode unpacks one of the most emotiona

G-d has just promised Abraham children and a land to inherit. And then Abraham has the audacity to ask G-d: "How will I know that I will inherit it?" How could he ask that? He fears that his descendants will do something

Abraham just defeated four kings. He refused their wealth. He should feel victorious. Instead, he's terrified. G-d appears to him in a vision and says: "Fear not, Abraham. I am a shield for you. Your reward is very great

Abraham comes back from the battle. The king of Sodom is waiting with an offer: keep all the wealth, just return the people. Abraham won't touch any of it. Not a thread, not a shoe strap. He refuses to let anyone claim t

Four mighty kings wage war against five. They crush armies, wipe out giants, conquer cities. When the fighting ends, Lot has been taken captive. A fugitive named Og brings Abraham the news. Abraham has hundreds of studen

Abraham and Lot can't stay together anymore. Their shepherds are fighting. The land can't support both of them. It's time to separate. But here's what makes this moment extraordinary: Abraham gives Lot first choice of wh

Abraham finally arrives in the land G-d promised him…and immediately faces famine. No rain. Dying animals. A starving community. This is G-d's idea of a blessing? This is the world's first famine ever, and it happens pre

When G-d tells Abraham "Go for yourself from your land, from your relatives, and from your father's house to the land I will show you," there's a problem: Abraham doesn't know which direction to turn. Right or left? East

Abraham didn't become the father of the Jewish people in a single moment of faith. He was forged through ten tests—each one preparing him for the next, each one impossible to pass without the conditioning of those that c

Judaism holds a view almost no other religion shares: you don't need to be Jewish to get to heaven. You just need to be a good person. In this episode, Rabbi Bentzi Epstein explores the seven Noahide laws, a universal mo

What turns the son of an idol-maker into the father of monotheism? After 20 generations of humanity swinging between pure physicality and pure spirituality, one young man discovered the revolutionary truth: we're meant t

What happens when the entire world unites... for the wrong purpose? In this episode, Rabbi Bentzi Epstein takes you on a tour of the Tower of Babel and humanity's coordinated attempt to wage war against G-d Himself. Lear
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