The Tanakh Podcast

Who is Amos? When did he live? And why does he start his book with 7 prophecies against the nations? Music: Omer Avital - "Three Four"

Chapter 4 depicts and "End of Days" scenario: The restoration of Jerusalem, return of the Exiles, Judgement of the Nations, and the regeneration of the Land of Israel.

"After that, I will pour out My spirit on all flesh... everyone who invokes GOD’s name shall escape; for there shall be a remnant on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem." What period is Yoel describing? Does Jerusalem protect all who invoke God's name?

This chapter depicts an impending disaster, a call to fast and repent, and then God's mercy and reversal of the national calamity.

Yoel ch.1 describes a devaststating plague of locusts and a call for the nation to respond by fasting and crying out to God.

50 min shiur Three Messages for Tu Bishvat as our nation fights Hamas in Gaza: 1. Tu Bishvat and Redemption 2. Trees, rootedness and our connection to Place 3. Honi Hamaagel and the Long Road to Redemption Sourcesheet https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OGK3YbfiH3jxVus4f0BlK_OEsOFth5Qc/view?usp=sharing

This is the Haftara for Shabbat Shuva, a beautiful to and from between God and Israel that is filled with love, repentance and blessing. But where does it belong inn Sefer Hoshea?

This chapter prophecises the demise of the Northern Kingdom with a wealth of metaphors. We discuss several of them.

Chapter 12 deals with Israel's unreliable and fraudulent ways. But what does Yaakov have to do with it? Is it true that Jacob "tricked his brother from the womb"?

In this chapter, God expresses his love for Israel - like a parent to a beloved child - from Egypt, through Israel's idolatry, punishment, and then the return to the Land of Israel.