$0/$300
for Feb | Toda Raba! We thank you for your gifts & generousity. |  | 
|  |
Archive for Iyar / Sivan 5773 - May 2013
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Parashat Shelach: We Won’t Get Fooled Again
The Sin of the Spies: Stopping the Cycle of Failure
A sobering Temple Talk is this week’s edition, as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman take umbrage at the debacle of the spies who returned from their mission in this week’s Torah portion of Shelach, and set the hearts of the people of Israel against entering the beloved and precious Promised Land. Modern-day spies may urge us to reject the Land of Israel, but we won’t get fooled again. Been there, wandering in that desert for forty years, done that: It’s time to fix that evil, and for us all to walk upright into the Land of Israel, and build the Holy Temple.
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
Our generation has been blessed by G-d with the unique opportunity to finally fulfill the spiritual potential of the Generation of the Desert, by fully embracing the Land of Israel. By settling the land and loving the land, and living in the land in accordance with Torah, and by building the Holy Temple, where G-d will rest His Holy Shechinah, we have the ability to rectify the sin of the spies, and put an end, at last, to the tears of exile and destruction. We have come home!
Shelach (Numbers 8:1-12:16)
Parashat Shelach is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 23, 5773/June 1, 2013
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Emunah channel is here. For Info www.torahfaith.org
Serving HaShem with all of one’s qualities:
(Soul) I have understood what you have said and paid attention to all that you have mentioned. Now I plead with your honor to explain to me on what occasions I should make use of my commendable and contemptible qualities, so that my use of them on these occasions will win me praise and commendation for their proper employment.
(Mind) You possess many different qualities; I will speak briefly of those that occur to me. Two of your qualities are joy and grief, which are opposites. This is the way joy should be employed: When you secure enduring delight, in which there can be no sorrow and which is not subject to any mishap, you may release this quality. The way to use grief (is as follows): When something happens to you which is troubling and enduring, and which you can neither remove nor escape, you may release grief and make use of it.
Dedicated to John Mitchell
Program Link – Read the Torah w/Shmuel – Contact – Emunah Channel
I can be me for my sake, and suffer from a hunger that can never be satisfied. Or I can be me for G-d’s sake, and never lack fulfillment.
Beha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)
Parashat Beha’alotcha is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 16, 5773/May 25, 2013
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Emunah channel is here. For Info www.torahfaith.org
The Creator has permitted you to use all of His advice for your physical well-being and for all the He has entrusted to you to do in this world in known ways and specific matters, namely, all the mitzvoth — those called for by the intellect, and those that are permitted.
He said to you, “Do not be fooled by all the things I have put into your hands and empowered you to make use of in this world. For they will add nothing to you essential being, nor will they distract from it; they will bring you neither delight nor suffering. They are only things that incidentally affect your body, external or internally. They are not essentials for you; their relation to you is like that of the placenta to the baby or the eggshell to the chick.
Dedicated to John Mitchell
Program Link – Read the Torah w/Shmuel – Contact – Emunah Channel
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Parashat Beha’alotcha, Palestinian Mythology and Nazi Flags
Muhammad Al Dura & Paul McCartney Back From the Grave! Proof of Life After Death
As we continue to reflect upon the theme of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai which dominates this month of Sivan, the Land of Israel seems beset by enemies who gather at our very door. We are also confronted by the enemies within, who seek to uproot Israel’s connection to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the entire Land. But there is a plan for Israel’s survival and indeed, for Israel’s radiant triumph, and much of that plan is foreshadowed in this week’s Torah portion of Beha’alotcha. As Israel travels through the desert towards the Promised Land, it is up to our generation to fix the mistakes of the Generation of the Desert, and interpret the Divine signals for moving forward towards destiny. Tune in to this week’s edition of Temple Talk as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman examine events in the Land of Israel and the world in the light of this week’s Torah portion.
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Emunah channel is here. For Info www.torahfaith.org
The assistants and attendants are the soul’s moods and qualities, such as happiness and anxiety, joy and sorrow, remembering and forgetting, wisdom and ignorance, courage and timidity, generosity and tightfistedness, righteousness and wickedness, shame and brazenness, hope and fear, love and hate, delight and suffering, pride and humility, prominence and lowliness, and many other similar traits, which you practice in your inner life.
The Creator, may He be exalted, commanded the gatekeepers, rulers, officers, servants, advisors, assistants, and attendants to listen to you and carry out your command until a certain time, except in extraordinary matters which He made clear to them when they were brought into association with you. These matters are the meaning of Divine compulsion and the place of predetermination.
Dedicated to Dr. Jason and Jennifer Specht
Program Link – Read the Torah w/Shmuel – Contact – Emunah Channel