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Archive for Iyar / Sivan 5769 - May 2009
Just as the Levites receive in the opening chapters of the book of Numbers, (Parashat Bemidbar), their appointed tasks in the service of G-d, so must we also strive to discover that appointed task in the service of HaShem for which we were brought into this world to fulfill.
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Bemidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)
Parashat Bemidbar is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 29, 5769/May 23, 2009
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter 7: Ten Levels of Sanctity, part II: The entire city of Jerusalem is the equivalent of the Israelite encampment in the desert. Its sanctity is greater than elsewhere in the land of Israel, and its special status is eternal.
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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HaShem commanded to Aharon to light the menorah in the Ohel Moayd outside the Kodesh haKoddoshim, (Leviticus 24:3), “from evening to morning before HaShem always. Does HaShem then need the light? The entire forty years that Israel traveled in the desert HaShem provided them with light; certainly He didn’t need Israel to light his way. Rather, the menorah is evidence to all the people of the world that HaShem is imminent with Israel, for the western candle burnt miraculously for 24 hours each day and never when out.
Tosfos are troubled by the comment, “The whole forty years that Israel traveled in the desert HaShem provided them with light. “Why doesn’t the G’morrah say, more universally, “The whole world is lit, always, by HaShem’s light?” Tosfos explain that the G’morrah doesn’t mean to ask, “Did HaShem need the light that was lit in His house?”, but rather, “ even the cohanim who entered the Mishkon need the light of the menorah so that they could see, as the Mishkon had no windows? The camp of Israel was illuminated by a miraculous light for forty years. To that the Gomorrah answers that there was no need. The light served merely to show the world that HaShem’s presence was with Israel. (Shabbot 22B)
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“But if you will not listen to Me and you will not observe My commandments…” (Leviticus 26:14) G-d requires more than simply fulfilling His commandments. He expects us also to listen to His voice in everything that we do, to be informed by His presence in all our deeds and thoughts.
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Behar-Bechukotei (Leviticus 25:1-27-34)
Parashat Behar-Bechukotei is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 22, 5769/May 16, 2009
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter 7: Ten Levels of Sanctity, part I: The unparalleled sanctity of Jerusalem requires many precautions to be taken.
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Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on May 20, 2009, (Iyar 26, 5769).
Part IV of a series in which Rena explores and shares the great spiritual depths of the righteous women who protected the children of Israel from the evil decree of Pharaoh, and prepared them for their eventual exodus from bondage and emergence as a free people. Miriam was a women of prophetic vision and a teacher of her generation. Her commitment to the sanctity of the Jewish family is what jump-started the exodus from Egypt, and also what caused G-d to later afflict her in the desert with tzar’at (leprosy).
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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Shmuel has a few comments on the Temple. These comments relate to our world today.
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