{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Mark Call Show","title":"Mark Call – Torah Teaching for Parsha “Ekev”","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8c69bb6a\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4936,"description":"Parsha \"Ekev\" (for \"Because,\" or \"it follows,\" Deuteronomy 7:11-11:25) is \nThe Erev Shabbat reading includes that, and more:\n[audio mp3=\"https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SSM-8-15-25-Ekev-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"][/audio]\nDuring the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa muses about the 'giants' (Rephaim, Anakim, Zamzuzim, et al) that Moses warned the mixed multitude they would deal with in the land.  And HOW, since they were promised to prevail.\nThey were big and scary, but just how intelligent were they?  Arguably, perhaps more so than we might think.\nThe theme again has idolatry at heart, and His hatred of it.  \"Do not even bring an abomination into your house,\" lest you be accursed like it.\nCould it be that He is also talking about the newly created AI gods, made of a different form of stone -- silicon?  But the lesson is the same, although the threat is greater.\n<strong>\nEkev:  \"Ekev  Big Scary Giants - Then and Now...But were they Smart, too?\"</strong>\n[audio mp3=\"https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WT-CooH-8-16-25-Ekev-Big-Scary-Giants-and-ASI-too-podcast-xxx.mp3\"][/audio]\nThe combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/FcIDs69patWkM2CyvgARvhe4m6yKu4t6Njvg1G7GiKE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMxNzU1LzE2NTUx/NDE2NTEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}