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Miracles; Part 3 of A Treasury of Jewish Folklore.

In this episode of the Sacrilegious Book Club, topics include Cabala; the Book of Splendor; Hasidism; Rabbi Israel; sin as a tangible object; the symbolic emptying of pockets; a vengeful lake; plot holes; and bad endings.

Next time, we will cover some entries from Heroes: Miracles — Messiah Stories. We hope you'll get a copy of the book and read along with us.

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Husband and Wife answer questions about the gold of Ophir, as well as what it means to have rocks pouring out oil.

We also discuss an oddly placed (and thus controversial chapter), and we try to understand what the heck is actually happening in this section.

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Job Bewails His Present Affliction.

And yeah, I guess Job whines about his life a little. But more than that, Job trash talks the other people around him. He seems pretty vengeful and acts like he resents having helped the poor and bereft. Honestly, we are liking Job less and less with every chapter. Much like Worf, Job is NOT a Merry Man.

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Job Recalls His Former Glory.

Job gets pretty uppity, extolling his many virtues. We think maybe God allowed Satan to knock him down a peg cuz he needed to eat a slice of humble pie. J-dog was a wee bit too proud of hisself!

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Man's Quest for Wisdom.

Once upon a time, a god named Prometheus lived in a rock garden teeming with all kinds of metal. He was wandering around his stones one day and found this cool thing called FIRE, but it belonged to some other *unnamed dude. Prometheus stole it and decided to stash it with some real dumb-dumbs, who paid for the stolen fire with store credit from reverse ATMs. Sadly, Prometheus fell into the sea and drowned, so the dumb-dumbs got to keep all that yummy fire. But they wanted more shiny stuff, so they Googled Prometheus and found his rock garden. They dug up all his metals, and this is why we can't have good things. Oh, and that *unnamed guy at the beginning of the story? He was actually called *Wisdom, but he choked on a ruby and died, and then his body shriveled up into dollar bills, so nobody ever found his body, which is why humans are still stupid to this very day. THE END.

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Job Describes the Portion of the Wicked.

Job is trying really hard to make two opposing notions be true at once:

"God is being super cruel to me, but he's still neato!"

and also:

"God is never wrong, but seriously, I haven't done anything to deserve this bs."

The back and forth is exhausting, which is why Wife was excited to distract us with a Lewis Carroll poem about a certain little crocodile.

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Job Declares God's Sovereignty.

We talk about He-Man (the most powerful man in the universe) and the Sorceress (the heroic guardian of Castle Grayskull). Wife does a fairly decent impression of Skeletor (the archenemy and uncle of He-Man).

Other sound effects include a mimicry of someone who is aghast, as well as a gliding serpent, both pre- AND post-piercing.

Job says some things, but nothing super memorable.

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Bible Study for Atheists Weekly is a collection of last week's episodes by Sacrilegious Discourse with Husband and Wife. This week's collection includes Job Chapters 21 - 25, with Q&A and Patreon Teaser.

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Then they talk about the Seven Deadly Sins; the Seven Capital Virtues; the Three Evil Thoughts; the Three Theological Virtues; the Seven Heavenly Virtues; Eternal Sins; and the Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance —

— in this bonus episode for Patreon subscribers and Acast+ members only.

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We discuss Satan's plan to turn everyone against Job. Then, we talk about the concepts of empathy, legacy, and getting grounded. Husband somehow misses "the fun bit" but Wife assures everyone it's in there. IT IS.

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