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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.
“And Abraham was old, advanced in days…” (Genesis 24:1) The original Hebrew verse is best translated as, “And Abraham was old, arriving in days…” Our sages teach us that when a person dies and seeks entry into the next world the days of his life come forward to testify as to how he spent his days: in holiness or otherwise. In Avraham’s case, his days arrived before the heavenly court and testified to a life of righteousness.
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Chayei Sara (Genesis 23:1-25:18)
Parashat Chayei Sara is read on Shabbat:
Cheshvan 24, 5769/November 22, 2008
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
The talit – prayer shawl – and tzitzit – fringes – enable the worshipper who has enveloped himself within the talit to draw upon the holy light of G-d’s infinite being, known as the surrounding light, and to wrap himself within this light. This surrounding light enables him to pray in solitude even when praying in a quorum. This same light, as embodied in the talit, will accompany him into the next world, testifying to his good deeds.
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Biblical Faith – with Sam Peak
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All these things show us clearly that the Sages describe Olam haBah as a material world. Undoubtedly, as Ramban says, a more refined and spiritual material world, but material nonetheless. When the time arrives in which (Isaiah 11:9) “The earth is full of the knowledge of HaShem as the waters cover the seas,” the world will be fit for t’chais hamaysim (resurrection of the dead), when it will return to the state before the chet of Adam haRishon, in which there was no death. T’chais hamaysim, as Ramban shows so compellingly, inaugurates Olam haBah.
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 201.
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
Avraham Avinu was tested ten times by G-d throughout his life. The final and most awesome of the trials was the binding of his son Yitzchak, (Isaac). He faced these trials with equanimity and love. We, too, are tested throughout our lives by G-d. By meeting our own personal trials with the love exhibited by Avraham we, too, can experience G-d’s profound love for us.
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Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24)
Parashat Vayera is read on Shabbat:
Cheshvan 17, 5769/November 15, 2008
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 Rambam describes the logistics involved in the preparation of the red heifer on the Mount of Anointing, facing the Holy Temple from the east.
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Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on November 19, 2008, (Cheshvan 21, 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 one of an ongoing series exploring the Torah perspective on love and marriage
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
Young Avraham Avinu takes on the entire civilized world of his day, rejecting their idols and their self-serving culture of I, me, and mine. G-d was so moved, as it were, He personally rescued Avraham from the fiery furnace of Ur.
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Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
Parashat Lech Lecha is read on Shabbat:
Cheshvan 10, 5769/November 8, 2008