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On Demand.

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome everybody to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show. Where as usual, I, your rabbi,

reveal how the world really works. And it is odd, I think, that we're living in a time, perhaps the first time in 2,000 years.

But it is certainly the first time in all of American history that people who regard themselves as educated and sophisticated, people who are looked

up to as the idea makers and the thought generators of society, the pundits, the talking

heads, all of these people are utterly and abysmally ignorant

of the most mysterious and majestic volume in all of human history, the Bible.

There is no book.

There is no book at all that has had more editions published.

There has never been a book that had more copies published.

It was the very first book to ever be printed on a printing press

just before 1450 in Austria by Johann Gutenberg, the Bible.

We're living in a time where people who regard themselves as leaders and as culturally literate people truly

have no idea whether Leviticus is the name of a man's after-shave-shaave lotion or of a book, not a clue.

And so it was with considerable trepidation that my wife, Susan, and I accepted an invitation

to be given a tour around the newly opened Museum of the Bible in

Washington, D.C. Now, regular listeners to the show are probably already aware that I am not that an enthusiastic museum attendee.

I find that pretty much whatever I might want to see in a museum, I can bring up online on my computer at home to greater

effect more speedily with more examples, better visibility. And so for the most part,

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