Recommending a film from 2023

I don’t consider myself an avid movie watcher, but I do watch occasionally when I find the subject interesting. I have seen many of the classics, even going back to the silent era. If I like the director or screenwriters’ previous work, I will tend to be attracted. Actors, however, are usually my last criteria or motivator, although some out there are descent. Anyhow, about the movie I am recommending.

I recently watched it on Tubi and found it enjoyable and worth my time. The title is No Name Restaurant. Below is a description from imdb.

An ultra-orthodox Jew and a Bedouin guide's car breaks down in the Sinai desert while en route for Passover rituals, forcing them to unite for survival as they seek their destination.

Alexandria, Egypt. To save the once largest Jewish community in the world from being shut down, Ben, an ultra orthodox Brooklyn Jew, is sent out to be the desperately needed tenth man for the ceremonies of Pesach. Having missed his plane and been kicked out of the bus in the Sinai desert, his last hope is Adel, a grumpy Bedouin looking for his camel. When their car breaks down, it becomes a matter of their very survival.

I hope you enjoy watching it. Blessings and one can access it at the link below.

https://tubitv.com/movies/100063475/no-name-restaurant?startPos=0

 

 

References:

https://tubitv.com/movies/100063475/no-name-restaurant?startPos=0

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7691384/plotsummary?item=ps3626947

 

Verse from Ecclesiastes 11

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.

~ Ecclesiastes 11:5 NRSVUE 

On Hagar

We seem to ignore Hagar these days, but God never did! 

References:

Genesis 16:7-15

Genesis 21:8-20

Realistic thought on evil

Many often claim "the devil made me do it" after doing something wrong. The reality is that is difficult to prove, and it's often a justification to be unaccountable for one’s own actions. Anyhow, one can blame the devil or Satan for much evil, but the physical perpetration and manifestation of evil has almost always involved humans throughout time 

History shows that humanity has inflicted immense suffering upon itself through systemic violence, war, and atrocities. Major historical catastrophes—such as state-sponsored genocides, total wars, and brutal regimes—were designed, executed, and sustained by human choices and societal structures rather than natural disasters.

Reference:

Google AI Overview 

Visible from invisible

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible (Or was not made out of visible things).

~ Hebrews 11:3, NRSVUE 

Two verses

  As for mortals, their days are like grass;

    they flourish like a flower of the field;

for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

    and its place knows it no more.

- Psalm 103:15-16, NRSVUE 

The people of long ago are not remembered,

 nor will there be any remembrance of

 people yet to come by those who come after

 them.

- Ecclesiastes 1:11, NRSVUE

God and time

 For a thousand years in your sight

    are like yesterday when it is past

    or like a watch in the night.

- Psalm 90: 4, NRSVUE