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Archive for Marheshwan / Kislev 5769 - November 2008
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
Prelude to a prophetic dream: Yaakov, fleeing from brother Esau, had time to reflect upon the crudeness and cruelty of man. Pondering the stoney hearted people who he had met in life, and their insensitivity to G-d, he gathered rocks beneath his head, that is, he mused upon their distance from G-d. Laying down to sleep with these thoughts upon his heart he dreamed an awesome dream.
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Vayeitzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3)
Parashat Vayeitzei is read on Shabbat:
Kislev 9, 5769/December 6, 2008
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter six: The Levitical choir was an integral aspect of the Divine service of the Holy Temple. Their vocal and instrumental accompaniment to the Daily – Tamid – service, and special holiday celebrations fulfilled a commandment of Torah and added a deep spiritual expression to the Temple experience.
Light to the Nations teachings are now available in mp3 audio files! They should also begin to show up in iTunes as well.
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, the forefathers of the Jewish nation, were real people of flesh and blood. Yet they also embody the very attributes by which G-d administers His world. Avraham embodies the attribute of chesed – loving kindness. Yet from his loins came forth Yitzchak, whose persona embodies the attribute of din – harshness. This reflects the cosmic conundrum: If, as we are taught, G-d created His world with chesed, why then, does harshness exists? Why are there people in pain and in need? By treating our fellow man with chesed we are, in effect, creating G-d’s world anew.
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Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9)
Parashat Toldot is read on Shabbat:
Kislev 2, 5769/November 29, 2008
Rabbi Richman’s Weekly Torah teachings are now available in mp3 audio files! They also should begin to show up in iTunes as well.
Biblical Faith – with Sam Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
This episode is the 107th and final installment in our Derech Hashem series
of studies with the RaMChaL of blessed memory. It is not insignificant that
it is episode #107 as this is the gematria of the Hebrew word davak (dalet,
veit, kuf – 106 + 1 with the kollel, meaning we add one for the word itself
= 107). Davak, meaning adhered, stick to, glue, cleave, is the root of
devekut (devotion, cleaving to and being one with Hashem). This state of
cleaving to Hashem is the goal of our service to him, and the Tsaddik, Rabbi
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, had this ultimate state in mind for us on every page
of this great work, Derech Hashem. It is my prayer that our presentation of
the RaMChaL’s teaching on Classical Judaism has been beneficial to the
viewers in reaching that goal.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Page 395.
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter six: The Levitical choir was an integral aspect of the Divine service of the Holy Temple. Their vocal and instrumental accompaniment to the Daily – Tamid – service, and special holiday celebrations fulfilled a commandment of Torah and added a deep spiritual expression to the Temple experience.
Light to the Nations teachings are now available in mp3 audio files! They should also begin to show up in iTunes as well.
(Visit us: The Temple Institute.)
Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on December 3, 2008, (Kislev 6, 5769).
Matches between man and woman – husband and wife are, indeed, made in heaven. But it is up to us to invest the effort to be the best partners we can be and nourish the love that brought us together. Part two of an ongoing series exploring the Torah perspective on love and marriage
Bat Melech teachings are now available in mp3 audio files! They should also begin to show up in iTunes as well.
Biblical Faith – with Sam Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
HaShem did not desire to write the Torah so clearly that it would not need any explanation. Quite to the contrary, HaShem wrote in it many undefined concepts, so that no man could possibly know its true meaning without being giving an explanation. This explanation must come through a tradition emanating from HaShem Himself, Who is the Author of the Torah.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Page 395.
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