🎙 Jew & Gentile Podcast Notes

Episode Title: Kvelling, Crying, and Clinging to the Word

Hosts: Chris Katulka & Steve Herzig

🏅 Opening Banter

• Steve is kvelling! William finished 10th in district — proud Zayde moment!
  
  
  
  

🗽 NY in the News

• NYC Mayoral Race: Updates and results (pending).
  
  
  
  


• Batman for the Bibas Family: A man ran the entire NYC Marathon (26.2 miles) in a full Batman suit to honor Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas, whose favorite superhero was Batman.
  
  https://x.com/vividprowess/status/1985141121693999368?s=42
  
  
  
  


• Syracuse University: Chancellor says protests “did not have the involvement of very many, if any, of our own students” — traced to Iranian influence. https://www.foxnews.com/us/prominent-university-chancellor-says-anti-israel-campus-protests-were-encouraged-from-iran
  
  
  
  


• Israel is Pickleball World Champions!
  
  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417286
  
  
  
  


• PA Church Halloween Float Controversy: Float featured phrase from Auschwitz gates; church apologizes for “profoundly offensive” display.
  
  https://nypost.com/2025/11/01/us-news/pa-church-apologizes-for-halloween-float-featuring-phrase-from-auschwitz-gates-profoundly-offensive/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=message_app
  
  
  
  

⚾ Faith and Sports

• Believers playing for the Blue Jays and Dodgers—just played one of the greatest baseball series in recent history.
  
  https://youtu.be/l_IdOCMuaFM
  
  
  
  

🧠 Media & Culture

• Tucker Carlson Platforms Nick Fuentes — Discussion of antisemitism and the misunderstanding of Christian Zionism.
  
  http://harbingersdaily.com/the-real-brain-virus-isnt-christian-zionism-its-antisemitism/
  
  
  
  


• Mention the Groypers movement and how antisemitism is disguised as “theological purity.”
  
  
  
  

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📚 Did You Know?

• According to Guinness World Records, the Bible is the bestselling book of all time — an estimated 5–7 billion copies printed over ~1,500 years.
  
  
  
  


• The full Bible has been translated into 700+ languages.
  
  
  
  


• #2: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) — estimated 900 million copies, largely through state-mandated distribution.
  
  
  
  


• #3: The Quran — estimated 800 million to 3 billion copies distributed worldwide (many freely provided).
  
  
  
  

📜 Psalm 119 — The Word of God
Hebrew Review

Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Daleth, He, Vav, Zayin, Chet, Teth, Yod, Kaph, Lamed, Mem, Nun, Samek, Ayin

PE (vv.129–136) — The Wonder and Weeping over the Word

Provision & Blessing of God’s Word:

• It gives light (v.130)
  
  
  
  


• It gives understanding (v.130)
  
  
  
  

The Psalmist’s Sense of Need:

• Mercy (v.132)
  
  
  
  


• Direction (v.133)
  
  
  
  


• Rescue / Deliverance / Redemption (v.134)
  
  
  
  


• Guidance (v.135)
  
  
  
  


• Power over sin (v.133)
  
  
  
  

Tears of Compassion (v.136):

• The Psalmist weeps for those who reject God’s Word.

 

✡️ Yiddish Word of the Day

• veynen — to cry
  
  
  
  

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• 📖 Devotionals:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • messiahinpassover.org
  
  
  • christmasisjewish.org
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  



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