Timeless Wisdom: Weekend Torah Teaching: Genesis 18:1-18:33
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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On Today's Show: Dennis explores the story of Abraham's encounter with God in Genesis. He delves into the significance of Abraham's hospitality and the importance of understanding the context of the story. Dennis also discusses the concept of God's judgment and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, highlighting the moral principles behind God's actions. He argues that God's judgment is not capricious, but rather based on his moral rules, and that the story teaches us about the importance of compassion and justice.
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| 0:48.4 | I don't approach this solely as literature. |
| 1:11.3 | I approach this as my Torah. It is my teacher. Torah means teacher. Torah does not mean law. It's a common misconception. It's understandable why it's made. And therefore, in Judaism, it is a religious act to study Torah. |
| 1:17.5 | However, I don't teach it as purely something of relevance to Jews. |
| 1:22.8 | My whole attitude to Judaism generally and to the Bible specifically is, |
| 1:28.3 | if it doesn't have something to say to everybody, then it has nothing to say to anybody. Is that clear to you? Either it is completely relevant if you are, if your background is Hindu or Muslim or atheist, it should not matter. |
| 1:37.3 | This stuff should speak to you. If it only spoke to Jews, I wouldn't be here. I approach it as a human being first and as a Jew specifically, |
| 1:49.4 | but first as a human. |
| 1:51.2 | That is why I read it to try to find its relevance to our lives today. |
| 1:57.6 | And if there is a unique aspect to my teaching of the Torah, Torah is the five books |
| 2:02.3 | of Moses, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, first five books of the Hebrew or Christian |
| 2:08.2 | Bible, then if I didn't find it relevant or that would be, that would not be a unique |
| 2:14.9 | thing. That is what I try to bring to it. What does it say to me? What can I learn from it? |
| 2:20.3 | I never ask you to take anything on faith. If it's not in the text, then you point that out to me and I'll stop teaching it. |
| 2:29.3 | That idea. Is that clear to you? It's got to be there. You've got to look at it and say, wait a minute. |
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