“When you’re going through hell, keep walking”: Israeli courage and the challenge of our lives
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, lost his arm from the elbow down in the Hamas attack at the Nova music festival. He was then captured, and authorities say Hamas is currently holding him hostage. His mother, Rachel Goldberg, is praying for his return and telling his story to the media, US senators, and Israeli politicians. She said, “I think when you’re in hell, if you stop, then you’re really stuck. So when you’re going through hell, keep walking—and that’s what I’m doing.” The Israeli people have done so since the beginning. And in this hinge point of history, what JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon calls “the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades,” what should we do?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, October the 17th, |
| 0:07.3 | 2023. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison |
| 0:14.0 | Forum. Perch Goldberg, Poland, a 23-year-old American Israeli born in Berkeley, California, was at the Nova Music Festival |
| 0:23.3 | last weekend when more than 260 attendees were massacred by Hamas terrorists. |
| 0:30.0 | Hirsch took cover in a bomb shelter, but a grenade blew off his arm from the elbow down. |
| 0:35.1 | Since he could still walk, he was ordered by Hamas to leave the shelter. |
| 0:39.4 | His phone soon pinged across the border in Gaza where authorities say he's being held hostage. |
| 0:44.9 | His parents, who were born and raised in Chicago, and moved to Israel 15 years ago, have not |
| 0:50.1 | heard from him since. His mother, Rachel Goldberg, said of him, quote, |
| 0:55.1 | Hirsch is my only son, and he's my first child. He was what made me a mother. I feel like |
| 1:01.0 | God could have given him to anyone, and he gave me the perfect son for me. Now she's spending |
| 1:06.8 | her days, praying for his return, telling his story to media outlets, and appealing to |
| 1:11.4 | U.S. senators and Israeli politicians. We need to know that we are doing every single thing we can do, |
| 1:17.5 | she said. Then she added, I think that when you're in hell, if you stop, then you're really |
| 1:23.2 | stuck. So when you're going through hell, keep walking, and that's what I'm doing. In quotes. |
| 1:29.5 | From the beginning of their story, the Jews have needed such courage simply to exist as a people. |
| 1:35.3 | In Genesis 12.1, God called Abraham, go from your country and your kindred and your father's house |
| 1:42.6 | to the land that I will show you. |
| 1:44.6 | Hebrews 11, verse 8, tells us that he then went out not knowing where he was going. |
| 1:50.8 | This is the epitome of courageous faith. |
| 1:54.1 | Moses did the same when he faced down Pharaoh, the most powerful man on earth, |
| 1:58.1 | and led his people through the Red Sea and the desert wilderness. So did |
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