blog posts featuring interviews of fascinating people in Israel and worldwide.
Root Source Interviews continues to profile author and writer Eliyahu Berkowitz who now talks about his first fiction book, The Hope Merchant. Eliyahu answers the question about Messiah, and talks about the Jewish soul in his writing. Part 4 of 4. His book. The Hope Merchant, A free wish with every purchase, under the author …
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Root Source Interviews continues to profile author and writer Eliyahu Berkowitz who now talks about his first fiction book, The Hope Merchant. Bob asks him a question about the main character, and where the idea originated. Part 3 of 4.
Root Source Interviews continues to profile author and writer Eliyahu Berkowitz who now tells his personal story of deciding to run away from his own Jewish identity, and what brought him back from destruction. He also shares his experience of coming to the Western Wall for the first time ever. Part 2 of 4.
In this exclusive Root Source Interview, you will meet a man you have probably spent hours with, but never knew it! Eliyahu Berkowitz is a prolific writer for Breaking Israel News, having published over 800 articles on the subject of Redemption. Eliyahu warms up to the camera in Part 1 of 4.
Root Source interviews presents part of a longer, deep conversation to help Christians understand the Jewish view of Redemption. As she explains to Bob O’Dell, who is hearing this for the first time, the Hebrew word guela or geullah, embodies at once the idea of restoration to God’s original intent, the end-of-days, and the coming …
NOTE: Dov bar Leib provided an update for us in November 2017 that can be found here: http://yearsofawe.blogspot.co.il/2017/11/stormwinds-of-yemen-final-blast-of.html Original Post below: Root Source Interviews continues with Dov Bar Leib and his view on the End of Days. Having revealed in Part 4 that he believes the Messiah will come during Sukkot, in this Part 5 and final segment …
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NOTE: Dov bar Leib provided an update for us in November 2017 that can be found here: http://yearsofawe.blogspot.co.il/2017/11/stormwinds-of-yemen-final-blast-of.html Original Post below: In another exciting Root Source Interview, we introduce Israeli Jewish biblical researcher Dov Bar Leib and his view on the End of Days. Having laid the groundwork for a view of world history and Jewish history in …
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What is it that Christians do that turned Jews off about Jesus? What’s the biggest Doctrine that Christians are teaching that is the most offensive to Jews? Find out what Bob and Gidon think about it In Part 5 of this interview. ( see part 4 )
What is the Torah? Why is it important? Why should Christians not be afraid of this? Why might they want to embrace it? Gidon Ariel answers these questions in Part 4 of this interview, (see part 3 here).
What if the idea of Jubilee is the restoration of this extremely broken relationship or hateful relationship between Jews and Christian? Part 3 of this interview, (see part 2 here) talks about the Relationship Restoration between Jews and Christian.
In Part 2 of this interview, (see part 1 here), Gidon answered Doug Hamp’s question: What does every Jew wish that every Christians know about Judaism and or the Torah?
This is part 1 of 5 series (see part 2). What is happening with the Jubilee? An update which is going to involve some of the things that happened to President Trump as well as moving the embassy in Tel Aviv over to Jerusalem. Join as Doug Hamp interviews Bob O’Dell and Gidon Ariel of …
In an addendum to the interview, Claire Pfann adds her opinion how people from Judea, Samaria, and the Uttermost Parts of the Earth, are “related to each other” according to the writers of the New Testament. This was the subject of Claire’s Masters Thesis. Learn more about The University of the Holy Land at: http://www.uhl.ac/
The Root Source Interview with Claire Pfann, the Academic Dean of the University of the Holy Land, continues. We ask her to tell the story of how she began to regularly attend a synagogue in Jerusalem, and how she got invited to sing in its choir! Learn more about The University of the Holy Land …
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Root Source Interviews: Claire Pfann, Academic Dean of the University of the Holy Land. Claire has been in Israel since 1982 and with her husband Steve, got the vision to start a University that allows English speaking students all around the world to get a graduate degree in Israel with a flavor of the Jewish …
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Root Source co-founder and director Bob O’Dell visits Israel three or four times a year (or more). Some of these thoroughly enjoyable trips are spent with Gidon, discussing Root Source business and strategy, but also visiting a lot of off-the-beaten-track places and visiting under-the-radar people. Bob recently returned from a January trip, and his camera’s …
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Root Source teacher Avi Lipkin weighs in on UN Resolution 2334 and explains why we will see a Sunrise for Israel and Darkness for Obama. Use the code LIPKIN30 to get 30% discount when you sign up to Root Source from May 15 – 22,2017! Click here to get started! Want to see the Entire One-and-a-Half …
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Gidon speaks about the UNESCO Surprise regarding the statement that disavows the historical connection between the Temple Mount and the Jewish people. He also brings out two surprises of his own for two friends in attendance.
Gidon speaks at the Jerusalem Channel 2016 Movable Feast of Tabernacles conference. His topic is the Seven Visitors of Sukkot.
Miki Zohar is one of the new wave of Likud members voted into office in the last elections. Miki is self-described as “not politically correct, for better or worse, but I can’t change who I am.” As an example of that he has proposed a law that requires non-essential businesses to close for Shabbat. Root …
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In this concluding interview Sharren describes her work to improve the economics for both farmers and consumers by reforming the regional boards that control so much of the food production in Israel. Gidon then asks her to talk about her view of the settlements in Judea and Samaria, and her bold perspective on what is …
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Sharren Haskel is one of the newest members of the Knesset, serving in the Likud party. In this Root Source interview you will hear her personal story of her life in Toronto, California, and Australia, as well as what drove her to return to Israel and ultimately enter politics. This interview, we believe, captures her …
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Root Source visits the Friends of Zion (FoZ) museum in Jerusalem. This video interviews its director, Ilan Scolnik and we include a number of photos from inside the museum itself. We were amazed at how wonderful is this place, in the heart of West Jerusalem near the Old City in a neighborhood founded all the …
Did Jesus speak Aramaic or Hebrew as his language of teaching and interacting with other Jews? In Part 2 of this interview, (see part 1 here), author Doug Hamp finishes making a compelling case from the Bible that Jesus taught and spoke Hebrew. Doug and Bob then turn their attention to the question of motivation. …
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Did Jesus speak Aramaic or Hebrew as his language of teaching and interaction with Jews? The world says Aramaic. Netanyahu said Jesus spoke both. But Author Doug Hamp makes a compelling case directly from the Bible that Jesus spoke and taught in Hebrew. Join as Bob O’Dell of Root Source interviews Doug Hamp, and you …
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Gidon recently gave an interview to Paul Bernard, a radio show host, about the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer and about Root Source. For the Lag Baomer holiday interview, go here. And here is the Root Source interview, we hope you enjoy it!
Our good friend Britt Lode from Norway visited Jerusalem last week, and interviewed Gidon about Root Source. We bring you that interview, taken in front of the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, and a bonus: she interviewed our beloved teacher David Ha’Ivri as well!