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Archive for Iyar / Sivan 5769 - May 2009
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Today we celebrate Shavuot, the day in which the nation of Israel first received Torah at Sinai, with an all-night total immersion in Torah study. Yet, this aspect of Shavuot is not even mentioned in Torah, and the central avodah – worship – in the Holy Temple – was the bringing of the bikkurim – first fruits. How do we explain this seeming discrepancy? How can we get back to the Torah of the land of Israel?
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
How does praying in the direction of the menorah or the Lechem haPonnim (the table of bread)? Two answer this we must understand that the divine service that we perform is not for HaShem’s benefit but for ours, as HaShem proclaimed (Psalms 15:8-15):
I will not rebuke you over your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are before Me always. I do not demand an Ox from your house; Billy goats from your pens. For all the beasts of the fields are Mine; the animals in mountains full with wildlife. I know all the birds of the mountains, and the creepers of the field are in My possession. If I were to hunger I would not tell you, for the world and its fill are Mine. Do I eat the flesh of Bulls? Do I drink the blood of Billy goats? Rather, slaughter for HaShem an offering of thanks; pay to the Highest your vows; then call Me in the day of trouble; I will save you and you will honor Me.
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‘Fessing up: “The L-rd then spoke to Moses saying: Tell the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits any of the sins against man to act treacherously against G-d, and that person is [found] guilty,they shall confess the sin they committed, and make restitution for the principal amount of his guilt, add its fifth to it, and give it to the one against whom he was guilty.” (Numbers 5:5-7) When the person who has erred makes an oral confession the confession itself removes the sin from his essence and the person returns to his true self.
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Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89)
Parashat Naso is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 7, 5769/May 30, 2009
Light to the Nations teachings are now available in mp3 audio files, and can be accessed through iTunes.
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
The reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty and the liberation of the Temple Mount, achieved through the blood, sweat and lives of of the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, was a miracle of the first degree. How do we recognize and understand a miracle of this magnitude, when it occurs in our lifetimes?
Rabbi Richman’s Light to the Nations teaching is followed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel’s, (the founder of the Temple Institute), personal account of the events of June, 1967, (the Six Day War).
Light to the Nations teachings are now available in mp3 audio files, and can be accessed through iTunes.
Visit us at www.templeinstitute.org/.)
Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on June 3, 2009, (Sivan 11, 5769).
Ruth, the story of the Moabite princess who attached herself to the Jewish nation and the G-d of Israel, is traditionally read in synagogues on the upcoming festival of Shavuoth. Rena Richman reveals fascinating midrashic insights into the historical background of the story, focusing on the unique personalities of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz. These three individuals together create the foundations of the Davidic dynasty.
Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on June 3, 2009, (Sivan 11, 5769).
Ruth, the story of the Moabite princess who attached herself to the Jewish nation and the G-d of Israel, is traditionally read in synagogues on the upcoming festival of Shavuoth. Rena Richman reveals fascinating midrashic insights into the historical background of the story, focusing on the unique personalities of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz. These three individuals together create the foundations of the Davidic dynasty.
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
The mountains saw you; they trembled; the storm water passed; the depths gave forth their voice, He raised His hand high. The sun and moon stood in their place; they go to the light of Your arrows; with the gleam of the lightning of Your spear. The Ramban (on the first verse of Parshat Truma) tells us that the presence of HaShem in the Mishkon was identical to its appearance at Har Sinai. Thus it is no surprise that the light from heaven can take the form of lighting.
We need not to be concerned that Chazal call the phenomenon “fire” (and the verse in Yitro calls it “torches”), while we assert it is electricity. The law is universally acknowledged that we may not light and electrical light on Shabbat because to do so would violate the prohibition (vaYak’hel, Sh’mos 35:3).
You shall not light fire in all your dwellings on the day of Shabbat.
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