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Archive for Shevat / Adar I 5771 - February 2011
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
The Copper Laver and the Righteous Women of Israel
From the Golden Calf to the Golden Lamp: Making a Choice to Bring Light Into This World
Parashat Ki Tisa leads us through the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs of Bnei Yisrael as the sublime work on the Holy Tabernacle is interrupted by the unbridled licentiousness of the golden calf. Moshe rabbenu – Moses our master – masterfully navigates a path fraught with cosmic cataclysmic pitfalls, as he castigates Israel and seeks their forgiveness from G-d. Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven describe Moshe’s unique leadership qualities, and also the well-intentioned but colossal folly of Israel as they pursued the ill-fated “shortcut” of the golden calf.
Today the Temple Institute has embarked upon a project in which gold is used not,
G-d forbid, as a blasphemous distraction, but, on the contrary, as a means of drawing our hearts to the beauty and light of our Father in Heaven. We are referring to the Nivreshet – the Golden lamp of Queen Helena.
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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Mishnah 23
Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says: Do not appease your fellow in the time of his anger; do not console him while his dead lies before him; do not question him about his vow at the time he makes it; and do not attempt to see him at the time of his degradation.
Mishnah 24
Shmuel HAKattan says: “When your enemy falls be not glad, and when he stumbles let your heart not be joyous. Lest HaShem see and it displeases Him, and he will turn His wrath from him to you” (Mishlei 24:17-18).
Mishnah 25
Elisha be Avuyah says: One who studies Torah is a child, to what can he be likened? – to ink written on fresh paper. And one who studies Torah as an old man, to what can he be likened? – to ink written on smudged paper.
Dedicated to: Tom and Karen Maitlen
In an unprecedented confrontation with G-d, Moshe, by denying and defying G-d’s will, actually fulfills G-d’s will perfectly. Passing this test with flying colors, Moshe proves his mettle as a defender of his people and a true leader of Israel
Ki Tisa (Exodus 30:11-34:35)
Parashat Ki Tisa is read on Shabbat:
I Adar 15, 5771/February 19, 2011
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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Next week on Light to the Nations:
Building the Temple, Part IX
What exactly did Rashi, the great commentator, say concerning the building of the third Holy Temple, and how are we to understand his words? When is he referring to the physical Holy Temple, and when is he referring to the spiritual essence of the Holy Temple.
Dedication: Dedicated to Dawn & Chris White and family.
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Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Golden Calf & the Holy Temple: Self-Centered or G-d Centered?
An Alternative Reading of the Torah’s Temple Portions: What If It All Means Something?
For 2000 years of exile the idea of really rebuilding the Holy Temple was something that was over the rainbow, inaccessible, “impossible” to achieve. So the whole topic of the Holy Temple became an allegory for other things. Now that Israel has returned to her land and the concept of rebuilding the Holy Temple is not only staggeringly achievable but also historically inevitable, it’s time to retire the allegories and re-understand the commandment to build the Holy Temple on its literal level. The additional month of Adar with which we are blessed this year is not for marking time, but for making the most out of the gift of time. Getting serious about the Holy Temple is one way to start.
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Only the sons of Aharon can wear the priestly garments and only while they are wearing the priestly garments can they serve in the Holy Temple as priests, enter the Temple Sanctuary and perform the Divine service. Yet elsewhere in Torah all of Israel is described as a “kingdom of priests.” (Exodus 19 :6) Is there really a way in which each one of us can serve in the capacity of priest?
Tetzave (Exodus 27:20-30:10)
Parashat Tetzave is read on Shabbat:
Adar 8, 5771/February 12, 2011
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