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Archive for Sivan / Tamuz 5769 - June 2009
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
The Three Pillars Personified
The forefathers Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov were the foundations of the Torah world. They personally embodied the three foundations of the world: Torah, service and kindness. Kind deeds were the outstanding characteristic of Avraham, who is noted for his hospitality to guests. Yitzchak, who willing approached the sacrificial altar, exemplifies the service of HaShem. Scripture associates the Torah nation with Yaakov, as it says, “Moshe commanded to us the Torah, the inheritance of their congregation of Yaakov” (Devarim 33:4).
The mussar of the Men of the Great Assembly and of Shimon HaTzaddik consists of three components, as do many of the statements in this tractate. This is because three elements embrace the total perspective: Everything has two opposite extremes and a middle that unifies those extremes into a whole. For example, the pillars of existence are: the animal sacrifices of the Temple service and its opposite, kindness, and Torah that binds them into a total, balanced system.
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The power of speech differentiates man from all of creation. And with the power of speech comes the power to bring good into the world and sanctify creation, or to bring evil into the world, and denigrate creation. Moshe used speech to achieve the former. Bila’am, the heathen prophet, used speech to achieve the latter.
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Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 12, 5769/July 4, 2009
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Welcome to Project Shofar
The redemption of the Jewish People from the ancient Egyptians was a demonstration to the entire world of the existence of its Creator. The continued existence of this same Jewish People is meant to serve the same purpose. Yet, throughout the ages this tiny people has been exiled from its homeland and driven out of nearly every refuge it sought. It has been persecuted and murdered by nearly every nation in the world, and, in spite of these efforts to destroy her, this ancient nation, at its weakest moment, right after the holocaust wiped out a full third of its population, reestablished her sovereignty on the soil of her ancient homeland.
Clearly this was and is a supernatural event. From its inception and to this very day the nations of the world have sought to destroy the tiny Jewish State. What they refuse to consider is the fact that this state came into being as part of a Divine Process which was predicted in the Bible. The Jewish State is proof of the existence of the Creator of the Universe.
Gary Cooperberg has been sounding the ancient trumpet of Israel, the Shofar, and calling out to all who will listen that time is running out. Biblical destiny is not stoppable, but needless tragedy is. An American who is also an Israeli citizen and has lived in Kiryat Arba, Hebron, for well over twenty years, Gary Cooperberg makes regular visits to the states to speak out to all who will listen about the imminent Biblical Redemption. If you would like to invite Gary to speak in your area, contact him.
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Holiness in this World: Maimonides’ Hilchot Beit HaBechirah – Laws of the Chosen House, chapter VII: The Holy of Holies, the holiest place on earth: What is holiness? How can we become holy? Can a place or time be imbued with sanctity? Torah teaches us an emphatic yes to all these questions. And the soul/time/space nexus where the holiest moment of the year, (Yom Kippur), and the holiest spot on earth , (the Holy of Holies), and the individual who represents the holiest possibility of man, (the Kohen Gadol – High Priest), meet and merge together is nothing less than the entire purpose of creation.
To learn more about the Temple Mount, and how to visit the place of the Holy Temple within the permissible areas, and in strict accordance with halacha – Jewish law – please visit the Temple Institute’s online Temple Mount section.
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
“Torah Study, the service to HaShem, and kind deeds
Torah study provides personal worth. The study of Torah builds spiritual, eternal beings out of mortals. The physical body is finite; it must come to an end. In contrast, Torah imbues a person with conceptual attributes: values and morals: principal and reason. Since these are not physical, they are not finite and never come to an end.
Personal worth comes through internalizing the values and principles of Torah and in no other way. It is in this way that Torah is a pillar of existence, for it molds us into whole and worthy beings.
The service of HaShem refers primarily to the Temple service of sacrifices, but it includes the service of HaShem through the performance of all mitzvous. The service of HaShem is a pillar of the world’s existence; it gives worth and wholeness to human existence in the context of the relationship with the Creator. Since the only existence is that of HaShem, everything else must relate back to His own existence, and provide that linkage through the service of HaShem.
Kind deeds, the third pillar, correspond to the third dimension of life: being integrated with others and good to them. To perform as act of kindness, without personal gain, is the highest degree of pure and enduring human worth. Kind deeds between one person and another induce a corresponding flow of kindness from HaShem that sustains the world.
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In this age of instant access to endless information, we are tempted to try to know everything! Is curiosity necessarily a good thing, or is it sometimes, as our sages suggest, an offshoot of arrogance?
True wisdom is in the acknowledgment that there are things that lie beyond our intellectual grasp. This wisdom is the portal to purity.
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Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)
Parashat Chukat is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 5, 5769/June 27, 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.
On the Temple Mount: Maimonides’ Hilchot Beit HaBechirah – Laws of the Chosen House, chapter VII: The ten levels of sanctity of the land of Israel continue to increase in sanctity upon the Temple Mount. Not only is a person with tamei met – spiritual impurity caused by contact with a dead body – allowed upon the Temple Mount plaza, but even a dead body itself is allowed on the Mount. However, the tamei met person is forbidden by penalty of karet – spiritual excise from the Jewish people – within the confines of the Temple Courtyards.
To learn more about the Temple Mount, and how to visit the place of the Holy Temple within the permissible areas, and in strict accordance with halacha – Jewish law – please visit the Temple Institute’s online Temple Mount section.
Light to the Nations teachings are now available in mp3 audio files, and can be accessed through iTunes.
Visit us at www.templeinstitute.org/.)