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So how is the Jewish world responding to the tragic loss of 45 Jews and a stampede during a religious holiday last week?

It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural,

and spiritual revolution. Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President

of Fire School of Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth. That's 86634

Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Friends, we've got a lot of ground to cover important issues to discuss today on thoroughly Jewish Thursday on the line of fire. But as always on Thursdays, the phone lines are wide open to you for your Jewish related questions. And of course,

we welcome calls from Jewish friends who differ with our position about Jesus, Yeshua, being the

Messiah. 86634-8-6-34-8-6-34-7-8-8-8-4. I want to give you an important update on the Israeli

elections. I want to give you more about the odd situation with this Gentile Christian who is posing as an Orthodox Jewish rabbi living in Israel.

I want to talk to you about that.

But I want to focus first on the tragedy in Maron last week.

I mistakenly said in the area of Jerusalem, one speaking about it last week.

Of course, Meyron is in northern Israel near Safed-Zafat. And this was something really unprecedented.

The loss of life, the staggering number of people killed while celebrating a traditional Jewish holiday.

It was just numbing and stunning for the country.

Coming out of COVID, now the largest public gathering that would have been held with a lot of the restrictions being relaxed.

A hundred thousand, perhaps more traditional Jews gathered together, coming from

different parts of the world to visit the grave site of the famous rabbinic leader, Rabbi Shimon

Ben Yochai. And 33rd day in the counting of the Omer, this is from Passover to Shavu Oat the Feast of Weeks,

Pentecost, bonfires lit and commemorating this man as the light of Israel and so on.

Forget about why the holiday or the traditions or venerating someone's grace. Forget about

all that. It's a major annual event in traditional

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