This is the Baymall Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings.

Today I am with El Grover Fricks and Josh Bosset to crack open the question of what a biblical blessing is.

That's right.

Blessings, super important, super important in the text, super important in the

in theology, right?

If blessing all nations is our key center of gravity,

what does that even mean?

So, hot takes, cold takes, things that we've said in the past?

What have we talked about when we say what is a blessing? What things have been

percolating around for you guys if you think the word blessing.

I feel like blessing might be one of the earliest Jewish contextual things that I ever learned about.

The idea of a blessing, being this active agent and speaking a blessing using the words actually like I mean forces compels whatever God to act on

something. Ooh breaking here Brent has power over the divine.

Yeah, I mean, I've heard it said a number of different ways

as it's been talked about over the years,

but some kind of like, know, the words that you say actually cause things to happen so yeah

don't speak carelessly well that's exciting I love kicking off that way that's great

thank you further down the path than I thought that we might get

Josh what pops mine for you pops to heart are we just mind-centric yeah yeah I mean heart. Yeah, I mean, yeah, the heart, I mean, biblically speaking, the heart just covers it all.

It's whatever's thumping around inside of you, right?

Sure.

Sure. Sure.

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