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Archive for Sivan / Tamuz 5771 - July 2011
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Next week on Light to the Nations:
The Temple Offerings, Part VI
The month of Tammuz has been marked for the past two thousand years of Jewish history by weeping and mourning for the Holy Temple. Is our mourning constructive, ultimately empowering us to rise up from off the floor and rebuild the Holy Temple, as our sages originally intended it to be, or have we fallen into the tragedy trap of mourning for the sake of mourning? Rabbi Richman explores the ancient world’s celebration of the cult of weeping, and Torah’s age old battle against the victory of defeat.
Dedication: Dedicated in celebration of Benjamin and Kaitlin’s marriage. Mazal tov!
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Next week on Light to the Nations:
The Temple Offerings, Part VI
The month of Tammuz has been marked for the past two thousand years of Jewish history by weeping and mourning for the Holy Temple. Is our mourning constructive, ultimately empowering us to rise up from off the floor and rebuild the Holy Temple, as our sages originally intended it to be, or have we fallen into the tragedy trap of mourning for the sake of mourning? Rabbi Richman explores the ancient world’s celebration of the cult of weeping, and Torah’s age old battle against the victory of defeat.
Dedication: Dedicated in honor of David Spitz on his birthday!
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Chapter 5
Mishnah 11
Pestilence has two attributes. It comes forcefully and it destroys without regard to innocence or guilt. The forcefulness of pestilence makes it a fitting punishment for not enforcing the harsh decree of law. The fact that pestilence attacks without discrimination befits the transgression of Sabbatical year produce which should have been put into a place where anyone or anything could get it.
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
The Book of Numbers by the Numbers
Masei: Preparing to Enter the Land: East of the Jordan, West of the Rock of Gibraltar
Have you ever lost a quarter down the gutter? You can see it down there but it’s just beyond your reach. Easy come, easy go. But if it was your wife’s golden earring, or, G-d forbid, her wedding band, you would be beside yourself. Imagine how the High Priest felt when he realized that one of the seventy two golden bells which lined the hem of his techelet blue tunic just dropped off and fell into the City of David sewer system. Did he receive a stern reprimand from his wife? Did he engage in somber soul searching? We can never know for sure, but one thing is for certain: Losers weepers, finders keepers. The recently discovered golden bell, which might have once belonged to a 1st century CE High Priest, is now ours for the keeping! Is this historic find a tap on the shoulder from the Almighty? Here in the middle of the three weeks of mourning for the loss of the Holy Temple, is G-d using this bell to wake us up from our two thousand year slumber? Is it time to rebuild the Holy Temple?
The book of Numbers draws to a close, and with it our forty two desert sojourns. Are we ready to enter the land? Are we ready to transpose the Torah society of the wilderness to the soil of the land of Israel? This is the purpose of Torah and the fulfillment of Israel’s mission in the world.
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42 journeys through the wilderness of life, and a box of scented letters: a love story.
Masei (Numbers 33:1-36:13)
Parashat Masei is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 28, 5771/July 30, 2011
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Bat Melech – with Rena Richman
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday.
Next Show: Women of the Desert, Part 2
The women of the desert and the feminine spiritual energy, strength and determination that they were able to tap into and channel enabled them to shepherd the entire generation out of the holocaust of Egypt, throughout the forty years of the wilderness experience, and ultimately into the land of Israel.
This lesson was originally recorded in Dallas, Texas, and is being presented on UTN in four parts.
Dedication: This show is dedicated to all the Noahides we met in Dallas.
TODA RABA / Thank You all so much!
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Chapter 5
Mishnah 9 and 10
Objects have six sides: top, bottom, front, back, right and left. The six sides have no area in common with each other, but the center is a common point of reference for all sides.
The center joins opposite sides and links the different directions together.
In summary, every physical object has seven parts: six sides and the center. The center is the reference point that links the other six parts together; it is the seventh part. For it is reason the number 7 is used as the symbol of order.
Dedicated to Sue Brown