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The 8th Day of Sukkot is also known as the Last and Greatest Day. This is a rebroadcast from 2025. https://restoration.subspla.sh/mk2h4r9

Some seasons you show up with a full heart. Others you show up empty, carrying grief you can't put down, wondering how you're supposed to feel joy when everything hurts. This week we walked the fifteen songs the ancient pilgrims sang on the long, hard climb up to Jerusalem for Sukkot — and found that joy isn't a feeling you wait for. It's something you do, even in the dark, because the God who met every pilgrim on that road came all the way down to be with you, right where you are. Watch “Joy & Sukkot” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/2s4xmet4 #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Ever been shown a kindness you knew you hadn't earned—and not known what to do with it? Most of us are quicker to want mercy for ourselves and justice for everyone else. We hold our love back until people deserve it, and we let it run out the moment things get hard. This week we walk through the story of Naomi and Ruth—two grieving widows on a long road home—to discover what it means to receive a loyal love that never quits, and then become the kind of people whose love doesn't quit either. Come find out why turning back toward God is the first step from famine to fullness. Watch “Return to God” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/4npux2m5 #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

When life falls apart, most of us do one of two things — we run, or we grit our teeth and wait for it to be over. We white-knuckle through the season we're in and hope God shows up with a sign to prove He's still there. But what if the thing that feels like it's swallowing you isn't the end of your story? For Rosh Hashanah, Matt reopens the story of Jonah — the parts the children's books skip — and finds a strange, hopeful pattern buried in the Hebrew: the place that looks like a grave can become the place you're born new. Honest about his own hardest years, he offers a word for anyone stuck in a season that feels like death, and a way to turn that isn't running. Watch “The Sign of Jonah” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/5xvzu9t9 #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Pastor Chris Manginelli shares about lament from the Psalms. Watch on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/44zvuhva #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Ever said something you can't take back? The text you can't unsend, the comment still going around, the quiet verdict you keep speaking over your own life. We all know the sting of words that tore someone down — and how no apology quite undoes the damage. This week we're in Psalm 34, digging into what it actually looks like to guard your mouth and speak life instead of death — over the people around you and over yourself. If you're carrying grief that hasn't lifted, or wrestling with words you wish you could unsay, this one's for you. Watch “The Resurrected Life” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/5n72x32w #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Everybody hits a season where the bottom falls out — sometimes from something we did, sometimes from pain someone else handed us. And we tend to do the same thing: pull away from God and try to clean ourselves up before we come back. But what if the shattered place you're most ashamed of is exactly where God wants to meet you? If you're carrying guilt you can't shake, or grief someone else caused, this one is for you. You'll see that God does not waste your sin, your pain, or your repentance. He redeems it — and disorientation is never the last word. Watch “The Broken Life” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/bdfrtsby #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Most of us are running on empty and don't fully know why. Constant scrolling, constant opinions, constant voices telling you what to think, who to be angry at, what to want — until you can't quite trace whose voice is actually shaping your life anymore. If you feel rootless, stretched thin, or like the noise is running your life instead of the other way around — this one's for you. Watch “The Good Life” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/vcwsuxky #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Yeshua stops for the people the world walks past.

Aybars Uckun from the Al-Ma’idah Initiative shares how we can spread the love of Yeshua to the Muslim community. Watch “Muslim Opportunity” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://restoration.subspla.sh/7jc6hh5 #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

When storms hit—broken circumstances, doubt, sorrow, even the weight of our own choices—where do we find something solid to hold onto? Pastor Aaron Gray reminded us that our hope is anchored in God's unshakeable character: greater than all, desiring to bless us, unable to lie, our refuge. Like Abraham, we wait with trust and perseverance, because Yeshua has gone before us as our eternal Kohen Gadol. Hope isn't wishful thinking. It's an anchor for the soul. Watch “Yeshua Gives Us Hope” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/5acf59ye #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

There’s no one — and no part of you — too far gone for Jesus to come for. The only question is whether you’ll let him land. Yeshua sees you — even the part of you you’ve stopped showing him. Watch “Worth Crossing a Sea for” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://restoration.subspla.sh/d6dzywz #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

There is someone in your life who has hurt you. And if you are honest, part of you wants them to pay for it. But carrying that debt is costing you more than it is costing them. This message is about what happens when you stop trying to be the judge and make room for God to show up instead. It might change how you see every difficult relationship in your life. Watch “Am I in the Place of God?” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/ymkchkmp #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Most people know Jesus welcomes sinners. What they miss is why He couldn't reach the religious leaders who forgot they were sinners. This message unpacks the Jewish context behind one of the most misunderstood titles in the Gospels — and why it changes everything about how you see yourself and the people around you. Watch “Friend of Sinners” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/yvj7f7ej #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle

Nobody signs up for suffering. But what if the hardest seasons of your life are not obstacles to becoming who God made you to be — what if they are the process? From Genesis to Isaiah to a desert road in Acts, one pattern keeps showing up. The suffering is real. And it is producing something you cannot yet see. Watch “One Messiah, Two Comings” on The Restoration App, Facebook, & YouTube or here: https://tinyurl.com/2kxmk5k3 #thehappyrabbi #restorationseattle #JewishinSeattle