Bobs Your Uncle Podcast

Day one of 8 covering all the events of what's nicknamed "Holy Week" in Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago. Do they have anything to do with us in Australia or in the US or anywhere?  Let's explore this topic. Today and every day this week. Even more history with elephants, Thomas Jefferson and FW Woolworth. Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mat...

Season 7 Episode 3 features Rachel Links Kushner from the US. She's a podcaster and a long-time friend. Jewish subjects and Philadelphia Cheese steaks feature.  (With Whiz or without?) Historical marker includes Argentina's first female president, Ada Lovelace the great mathematician and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Support the show Thanks for listening. Plea...

Season 7, episode 2 is about results and especially not waiting for the results. Sometimes we get it wrong when we stop watching too soon, or when jet lag hits us full on. Three stories that might make you smile. At least I hope so. Historical marker of the week includes Akihito in Japan, the invention of the leotard and the closing of Ellis Island.  Some of the manuscript is on my blog: https://b...

Today Bob takes us on an 18-minute journey in the land of do-overs, thinking about what a gaffe is, and how to make things right, when we do wrong.  Quoting Professor Malouff of UNE in Australia and Rabbi Brad Hirschfield of the US, some good insights into this notion of repair.  The historical marker of the week includes the Black Death in London, the Duke of Brabant and the Sistine Chapel. Suppo...

A bit of Hosanna reprise, some Mount of Transfiguration flashback, John chapter 1 telling us who is tabernacling with us, and even the last book in the Bible, Revelation chapter 21 where the culmination culminates! It's all there at Messiah's return. Oh, and we finish Ecclesiastes chapter 12 with Solomon's real conclusion about where to find hope and real meaning in life.  Even in t...

Finding salvation is the cry of Hoshana, so how does that help us in 2024? Reading from Ecclesiastes chapter 7 is timely. Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.com Link to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078996765315 on Facebook. Bobs Your Uncle features the opinions of...

From 5783 Day 6 was actually a Shabbat, so it had double meaning for us inside the sukkah. I spoke about the value of and the inherent dangers of traditions. When traditions block or inhibit what they were intended to enhance, it's time to dump them, but until then, if they help, let them stand! Also a reading from Ecclesiastes 6. And where is (true) hope? Support the show Thanks for listenin...

Bob shares from "in the sukkah' about Amos 9 and the fallen booth of David, about the Council in Jerusaalem and Gentiles keeping circumcision, and the role of the nations in Zechariah chapter 14, plus a reading and comments from Ecclesiastes chapter 5.  Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his em...

Looking back at biblical history, we find some interesting information about the prayer Solomon prayed when he dedicated the Temple in Jerusalem around 960 BCE and a countdown of bulls when God told Moses to offer sacrifices on this holiday back in Bible days. Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email...

The symbols of the holiday are always instructive and the reading of the Bible's depressing book Ecclesiastes is a great way to ponder what the Almighty wants us to take away. Originally recorded in my sukkah in 5783. Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his email -- bobmendo@AOL.com Link to https://w...

From inside my sukkah, I read chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes and share some thoughts with motorcycles and noisy minas joining the chorus.  The YouTube video is here: https://youtu.be/71A08FA47rg What do you think about all this? Share your thoughts here or in an email. Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bob on his e...

From inside my sukkah in Sydney's north shore, a lesson from Ecclesiastes and the notion of re-minding on this Festival of Tabernacles.  First of 8 episodes in Season 6, a special daily mini-series. The video version of this episode is on YouTube if you'd rather watch and listen together.  Click this link: https://youtu.be/v7qyNCzibCU  Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share...

In this episode, Bob takes us on a journey of other people's journeys related to how they identify and asks "What is your identity?" Maybe the Bible can help us find our own if that's possible. Historical marker of the week includes the guillotine death sentence in France, the invention of the sewing machine, the first black African Olympic gold medal, and more! Support the sho...

My long-time friend Rob grew up in Temple, Texas, but has lived in Arkansas, California, and the last 3 decades in Nashville. He's a professor and an actor by profession, and has a lot of good stories to tell.  His IMDB info is here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5097095/ Historical marker of the week include Henry Hudson, the Viking 2, Frank Capra, and Labor Day. Support the show Thanks for li...

In the heart of Alabama, Ethan Cooper's life appears idyllic: a devoted family, a thriving career, and a daughter he cherishes. Yet beneath this veneer of perfection, Ethan conceals a secret that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. As he grapples with the challenges of fatherhood, his own identity crisis, and the burden of societal expectations, Ethan finds himself caught between t...

Every year as school began, it seemed that each of my primary school teachers would have us write a paragraph or an essay about our summer's activities. As August finishes and school in most of the US has reconvened, this seemed a good time to reflect on my adventures the last few months. Historical markers include astronomy, Bulgaria and Hungary, Warsaw Pact nations squelching an uprising an...

Cornell University student Michelle Lissner finds a way out of her struggles as someone walks with her through all the storms of life. Her story is compelling. Her grandchildren are beautiful. Fill in her story in this 18-minute episode. Follow her on Facebook, email at michelleb@cjfm.org or write her at PO Box 165, North Haven, CT 06473-0165. Historical marker includes Tisha B'av and the bui...

Meet Daniah Greenberg again. She is the front person for the TLV Bible Society, which actually hired 30 Ph. D. scholars to translate the Bible again in a Jewish perspective. The results are astronomical with over 600,000 downloads in less than a few years. Reach her at the website of the TLVBibleSociety.org or on her Facebook page.  Historical marker of the week includes the Enola Gay and Little B...

This little lady who was born in Bellevue Hospital, not known for pregnancy and sensibilities, has emerged along with her husband and three adult children into a limelight in messianic circles. Prison-born, and prison born-again, you will value her stories, and maybe even be challenged yourself. Historical markers of the week include Otto Von Bismarck, "In God we trust", Lutherans being...

What is purity and how shall a person get hold of that anyway? Season 5 begins now, and will go through the end of the calendar year 2024. Historical marker of the week includes invasions and citizenships and voting rights as well as the Jewish mother of the Salvation Army! Support the show Thanks for listening. Please share the pod with your mates, and feel free to comment right here! Write to Bo...

Dinah and her husband met in the 1990s in the New York City area, got married, and after living in Israel for 12 years, returned a few years ago. She has studied TCK (Third Culture Kids) and learns daily about that, about mentoring, about music and how our brain and our temporal lobe especially are affected when we try to find a word! She has hope for Israel and I want that for you as well.  The h...

Meet Will Ponsonby who is by trade both an electrical engineer and a former badminton champion in Hobart and the state of Tasmania in Australia. He also runs Off Court Sports (221 Liverpool Street, Hobart) where you can find all the gear for your favourite sports, even if it's not pickleball! Historical markers of the week include Adolph Hitler, JJ Thomson and the electron, King Willem-Alexan...

Gerry is a lecturer in sociology and in the school of religion at University of Sydney and also at University of Tasmania. She has a lot to say and Bob also shares his views about text-based religion. It's Passover week; the Bible verse is a hit. This episode is actually part 2 of 2, concluding the episode we began last week. Historical markers of the week include Hank Aaron, William Shakespe...

Gerry Smith is originally from Sydney and spends half the year lecturing there and in Hobart, Tasmania on religion, on religious movements, and especially with a bent on the sociology of religion.  She has a lot to say about young people and inclusion, about key challenges to those involved in interfaith activity (or non activity), and this is only part 1 of 2 parts in this podcast series.  Histor...

The concept did not originate in the Christian world, it's Jewish! The prophets of Elijah and Elisha raised people from the dead, and it's recorded in our Holy Scriptures.  So it's not a surprise that the Jewish believers in Yeshua also saw that as part of our proper theological view. Certainly the Orthodox Jewish world today still holds to that thought.  But what about Yeshua, and...