Ancient Roads: CH-1! Bible. Talk. And Walk.

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By: Avi ben Mordechai

ABOUT ME and THIS PODCAST: I am Avinoam ("Avi") ben Mordechai. I am a veteran of the 1970s radio broadcast industry. For me, radio programming was very different when I started as a California "rock jock" radio personality and later, in the 1980s, as a radio programmer and host of secular and religious talk shows. Today, I remain passionate about explaining the biblical texts in a way modern readers can understand and relate to. The biblical studies I engage in through my teaching monologues and, in some cases, interviews with knowledgeable academic researchers are, at their core, Hebraic studies within t...

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PALEO HEBREW PICTOGRAPHS, THEIR CONCEPTS and NOTIONS (PART 2)

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09/26/2025

On today’s program, Episode 185, this is Part 2 of a continued dialogue I had with Andre Roosma of the Netherlands, discussing what is often referred to as Paleo-Hebrew.

We will discuss the Hebrew language's pictographic roots and basic notions that underlie the...

PALEO HEBREW PICTOGRAPHS, THEIR CONCEPTS and NOTIONS (PART 1)

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09/13/2025

On today’s program, Episode 184, this is Part 1 of a dialogue I had with Andre Roosma of the Netherlands, discussing the written language of Abraham, Moses, and David, often referred to as Paleo-Hebrew. We will be speaking about the pictographic roots and basic no...

Excavating the Bible with Jeff Benner (PART 2)

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08/24/2025

On today’s show, Episode 183, this is Part 2 of a Hebrew Scripture discussion I had with Jeff Benner, founder of the online Ancient Hebrew Research Center, in 1999. Jeff Benner loves to help serious Bible readers break free from a surface-level understanding of...

Excavating the Bible with Jeff Benner (PART 1)

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08/15/2025

Episode 182 PART 1, a Hebrew Scripture discussion with Jeff Benner of the website Excavating the Bible. Jeff Benner founded the Ancient Hebrew Research Center with the objective to help serious Bible readers break free from a surface-level understanding of scripture and to begin reading t...

Exodus 26-27 and the Circular (not rectangular) Tabernacle/Tent (Andrew Hoy PART 2)

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07/27/2025

On today’s show, Episode 181, this is the SECOND PART of a discussion that I had with Professional Mechanical Engineer Andrew Hoy about the biblical Hebrew Ohel Mo’ed – the tabernacle or the tent of Elohim (“God”) as described in the Bible in Exodus Cha...

Exodus 26-27 and the Circular (not rectangular) Tabernacle/Tent (Andrew Hoy PART 1)

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07/11/2025

On today’s show, Part 1 of 2, Episode 180, I’m speaking with Andrew Hoy about the biblical Hebrew Ohel Mo’ed – the tabernacle or the tent of Elohim (“God”) as described in the Bible in Exodus Chapters 26 and 27. As a professional mechanical engineer and the son of a...

LAW and GRACE Through the Eyes of a North Carolina Bible Belt Bapist Pastor

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06/25/2025

On today’s show, episode 179, I’m speaking with David L. Jones, who grew up under the umbrella of the Southern Baptist Church in North Carolina, USA. I had a conversation with David about his spiritual journey, from his vocation as Pastor of an Independent Sund...

When Does A Biblical Day Start (PART 4 - FINAL)

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06/08/2025

On this episode, Number 178 and PART 4 of Real Israel Talk Radio, I will conclude this four-part series on WHEN A BIBLICAL DAY STARTS.

In the first half of this show, I will address eleven (11) different Hebrew Bible p...

When Does A Biblical Day Start (PART 3)

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05/25/2025

Today, on this Real Israel Talk Radio program, Episode 177 and PART 3, I will continue in this series, When Does A Biblical Day Start? With the morning or with the previous evening? According to my understanding of Genesis 1:2-5, it appears that a...

When Does A Biblical Day Start (PART 2)

05/11/2025

On this episode of Real Israel Talk Radio, we will closely examine the Hebrew declarations of Genesis 1:2-5.

Genesis 1:2. The earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep

Genesis 1:3. Then God said, "Let there b...

When Does A Biblical Day Start (PART 1)

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04/27/2025

Today, we will examine the controversial question of “When does a Biblical day start?” This is PART 1.

Of course, whether a biblical day starts in the morning or with the previous evening, it has been a topic of great discu...

Biblical Forgiveness: The Critical Missing Requirement that is Often Overlooked (PART 2)

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04/13/2025

This IS Real Israel Talk Radio Episode 173. This is the SECOND PART of a program addressing biblical forgiveness. I asked my wife, Suzanne, to present this program as a continuation of PART 1 so she can speak personally and candidly about forgiving someone from her perspective...

Festival of Unleavened Bread or the Festival of Matza: Biblical and Hebraic Insights into the Concepts of Leaven, Leavened, Unleavened, and to be Leavened

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03/28/2025

Today, we will look into the biblical festival of Unleavened Bread as it is taught in Exodus 12:19-20. Specifically, we will learn that in the Bible and the New Testament, the English terms "LEAVEN" and "LEAVENED" are derived from two different Hebrew words conveying two...

Biblical Forgiveness: What is this and what does it look like? (PART 1)

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03/18/2025

With this Real Israel Talk Radio episode, I am turning the program over to my wife, Suzanne so that she can speak personally and candidly about biblical forgiveness. What does it mean to forgive? We all generally maintain various ideas about forgiveness and what it...

Yosef Sanchez: From World Class Table Tennis Athlete and Coach to Spanish Language Messianic Torah Leader and Teacher

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02/25/2025

Before fulfilling his calling in a Latin American Spanish Language Messianic ministry, Yosef Sanchez was, for many years, taking his own journey into becoming a national table tennis champion to represent Mexico in professional table tennis. With his sights focused on becoming a respected top-ten...

Decoding the Zadokite Calendar: The 24 Zadokite Priestly Rotations of 1 Chronicles 24 (PART 4)

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02/07/2025

I'm speaking with Robert Villa and Sherry Sanders on today's show about the Zadokite Priestly Families of 1 Chronicles 24. Both are on a research team looking into the Dead Sea Scrolls' Calendrical Documents and some detailed minutiae involving the service rotations of the Zadokite families and...

Decoding the Zadokite Calendar: the Pattern of Intercalation for 2025 (PART 3)

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01/24/2025

Can we ever hope to solve the problem of nearly 2,000 years of calendar wars regarding when to keep the weekly Sabbath and the biblical feasts?

In this PART 3 episode of decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls Calendrical Documents belonging to the 24 Zadokite priestly families...

Decoding the Qumran Zadokite Calendar (PART 2)

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01/11/2025

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Episode 168

On today's program, my guest is Professor Jonathan Ben Dov of Haifa University and Tel Aviv University. Professor Ben Dov received international recognition through his scholarly work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Fragment 4Q324d...

Decoding the Qumran Zadokite Priestly Calendar (PART 1)

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12/31/2024

EPISODE 167
INTRODUCTION TO DECODING THE ZADOKITE PRIESTLY CALENDAR (PART 1)

Following the Qumran biblical Zadokite Priests and the calendar system they inherited is an essential function of what it means for us to Hear and Do the Torah. Through their teachings, left to...

Bruce Brill Memoir and author of a book based on true events: Deceit of an Ally and more on the still existing American Intelligence "Jew Room" (PART 2)

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12/14/2024

Shalom, I am Avi ben Mordechai, and this is Real Israel Talk Radio

On today’s show, the second of a two-part interview with Bruce Brill, who wrote Deceit of an Ally – A Memoir of Military Anti-Semitism, NSA’s Secret Jew Room and Yom Ki...

Bruce Brill Memoir and author of a book based on true events: Deceit of an Ally and the NSA "Jew Room" (PART 1)

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12/02/2024

The True Story of an Un-American Deep-State NSA Cabal operating from the offices of their "Jew Room" in the Washington, D.C. Swamp.

Israeli Bruce Brill and four other American U.S. Army servicemen who worked for the US National Security Agency...

COMING HOME: Testimony and Spiritual Faith Walk of Avi ben Mordechai

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11/18/2024

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With this episode of Real Israel Talk Radio, I want to share a bit about my life's journey so that you can better understand the changes I have experienced over several decades and why I believe what I believe. In my decades-long search to find...

Death - the Last Enemy, Letting Go and Healing from the Pain (Part 2 of 2)

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11/01/2024

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The second of a two-part program addressing the topic of dealing with letting go of the shock of losing a loved one, whether due to a prolonged illness or the sudden and unexpected death of perhaps a husband, wife, child, mother, father, brother, sister, or...

Death: The Last Enemy, Letting Go and Healing from the Pain (Part 1 of 2)

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10/18/2024

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We understand that the pain of one who passes away is no more in this life. However, what now remains is that for us, we must go on with life, though bereaved, and frankly, this is not an easy matter to deal with. So, what...

Worldwide Digital ID Framework for the Mark and the Image of the Beast (Final Program 5)

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09/27/2024

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Many governments worldwide have already adopted a basic digital identification system so that their citizens can access various government facets and online goods and services securely. Soon, every country worldwide will have a Digital ID structure in place for their citizens. Of course...

Worldwide Digital ID Framework for the Mark and Image of the Beast (Program 4)

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09/13/2024

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EPISODE 160, PART 4

A new Australian Digital ID legislation was passed into Law through the Parliament in Canberra in the latter weeks of May 2024. This new Law, which comes into effect on December 1, 2024, is...

Worldwide Digital ID Framework for the Mark and Image of the Beast (Program 3)

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08/30/2024

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PROGRAM 3, EPISODE 159

A new Australian Digital ID legislation was passed into Law through the Parliament in Canberra in the latter weeks of May 2024. This new law, which comes into effect on December 1, 2024, is...

Worldwide Digital ID Framework for the Mark and Image of the Beast (Program 2)

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08/16/2024

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PROGRAM 2, EPISODE 158. A new Australian Digital ID legislation was passed into Law through the Parliament in Canberra in the latter weeks of May 2024. This new law, which comes into effect on December 1, 2024, is not predominantly...

Worldwide Digital ID Framework for the Mark and Image of the Beast (Program 1)

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08/02/2024

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A new Australian Digital ID legislation was passed into Law through the Parliament in Canberra in the latter weeks of May 2024. This new law, which comes into effect on December 1, 2024, is not predominantly a digital...

Micah Kissling of My House Ministries on the Tzadokite/Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls Calendar

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07/20/2024

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Today, I'm speaking with Micah Kissling, who is part of MY HOUSE MINISTRIES.

Micah, his wife, and his children live the farm life in the Midwest of America. He comes from a family of 9 siblings – six brothers and three sisters. Micah grew...

Amir Atieh - Secular Israeli to Messianic Teacher

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07/06/2024

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I’m speaking with Amir Atieh of Natanael Ministries in Western Australia today. Amir was born to Israeli parents and grew up in Ramale, not too far from Tel Aviv. His life and growing up years were filled with abuse and pain on many le...

Shavuot (Feast of Weeks/Pentecost): The End Times and the Theme of the Last Day Resurrection (the "rapture") - PART 2

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06/22/2024

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I shall continue with where I left off in PART 1 of this two-part program on Shavuot or Pentecost. Shavu’ot, in the Bible, presents itself as an annual festival about biblical restoration, renewal, and completion.

Today, I wil...

Shavuot (Feast of Weeks/Pentecost): The End Times and the Theme of the Last Day Resurrection (the "rapture") - PART 1

#153

06/13/2024

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Let’s talk about the annual celebration of the Festival of Weeks or what Yehovah refers to in Scripture as Shavu’ot or in Greek – “Pentecost.” Shavu’ot, in the Bible, presents itself as an annual festival about bib...

PRIESTLY AUTHORITY AND THE BIBLICAL CALENDAR OF 2ND TEMPLE PERIOD JUDAISMS.

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05/25/2024

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In this program, we will speak about Exodus 19:5-6, the Melchizedek link to the New Covenant Book of Hebrews chapters 6-8, and the exchange of the Levitical law for the higher and more superior Melchizedek law of the King/Priest Messiah. We will also look...

SIGNS OF THE TIMES (PART 1): The Authority of the Ezekiel 44:24 Zadokite Priesthood and the Biblical Calendar of Exodus 12:2

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05/11/2024

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The Second Temple Period of Judaism was a unique time in the history of the Jewish People. Among the many religious issues of the Jewish people at that time, one major point of conflict was that of the calendar. You wouldn’t think that this wo...

Behold The Shroud! Continued, PART 2. Interview with Barrie Schwortz, the 1978 Science Team Documenting Photographer

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04/27/2024

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This is PART 2 of my interview with Barrie Schwortz, the Official Documenting Photographer for the 1978 Shroud of Turin Science Team.

Barrie had been asked to join the Shroud Science team due to his extensive specialized skills in photography and his subsequent c...

Behold the Shroud! PART 1. Interview with Barrie Schwortz, the 1978 Science Team Documenting Photographer

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04/15/2024

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With this episode of Real Israel Talk Radio, we will speak with Barrie Schwortz who was the Official Documenting Photographer for the Shroud of Turin Science Team in 1978. Barrie Schwortz will speak with us about the Shroud as evidenced by his extensive professional photography background.<...

My Passover Haggadah: An Extended Experience of its Depths, Shadows, and Realities

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04/01/2024

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Each year at the season of Passover, multitudes of millions of Jewish people from all over the world, as well as those who are not natively born to the Jewish faith and culture, all gather together around each of their local family tables to remember...

Biblical Teaching and Law ("Torah"), the U.S. Constitution, and the Founding of the United States of America with California Attorney Iver Bye (Part 2)

03/15/2024

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NOTE: The following program was recorded in late August of 2023. Sadly, near the end of November 2023, attorney Iver Bruce Bye was the victim of a horrible assault on his life. He passed away on June 8, 2024, due to the serious head injuries that he...