Archive for Sivan / Tamuz 5769 - June 2009
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Scholarly Temple teaching meets head on with extremely current events: The Two Bezichin: With the two newly created golden frankincense vessels in hand, Rabbi Richman describes their use in the weekly avodah – service – of the twelve loaves of the showbread, which took place within the Kodesh Sanctuary of the Holy Temple. The miraculous nature of the showbread contains a spiritual message relevant to us all.
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Remembering free food in Egypt: How could the children of Israel have eaten free food in Egypt, when, as slaves, they even had to provide for the raw materials for the very bricks that they were compelled to produce? It wasn’t the monetary value of the food that they were referring to, but the idea that they were free from responsibility, free from the “yoke” of Torah, the covenant of Sinai.
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Beha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)
Parashat Beha’alotcha is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 14, 5769/June 6, 2009
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Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on June 17, 2009, (Sivan 25, 5769).
Tzipporah, the daughter of Yitro – Jethro – and the bride of Moses, was a righteous woman of great spiritual depth, in her own right.
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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Tanchuma, KiTisa 36 writes: When Moshe was in heaven how did he know it was day and when it was night? When HaShem taught him Torah Shebichav, the written Torah, he knew it was day; when He taught him orally, the Torah Sheball Pe, the oral Torah, the Mishnah and Talmud he knew it was night.
Day and night are defined by the revolutions of the earth. The hemisphere facing the sun experiences day, the other, night. When it is evening at one spot, it is still day not too many miles to the west. If so, what relevance does day and night have in heaven? At any given moment, at every hour of the clock, it is day and night different parts of the globe.
If we are inclined to avoid this difficulty by assuming that Moshe was interested in day and night at Har Sinai, from where he came and where Israel was encamped, we still have not resolved our troubled mind. The G’morrah (Avoda Zora 3B) informs us that HaShem Himself has a – very mysterious – schedule based on the hours of day and night.
Listen closely as Shmuel teaches us from “Mysteries of the Creation” by Dovid Brown.
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