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Archive for Iyar / Sivan 5773 - May 2013
Love is in the air as Israel stands at the foot of Mount Sinai, ready to receive Torah and betroth themselves to G-d, a wedding whose anniversary we celebrate this week on Shavuot. This week’s parasha, Naso, makes many a meaningful reference to the happenings at Mount Sinai.
Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89)
Parashat Naso is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 9, 5773/May 18, 2013
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This week features:
Shavuot: From Barley to Bread, from Slavery to Freedom
Bringing the First Fruits on Shavuot: Getting Real in the Land of Israel
The awesome spiritual energy of the month of Sivan comes to a climax this week as we complete the seven-week period of counting the omer, and Israel observes the Festival of Shavuot, poised and ready to relive the Sinai Revelation experience. But Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman remind us that there’s more to Shavuot than staying up all night. In the days of the Holy Temple, there is a completely different emphasis: the bringing of the first fruits. What’s fruit got to do with Torah study? Well, that depends on if you mean the real Torah. Tune into this week’s Temple Talk for an insight into Shavuot, the great celebration of the Land of Israel. Plus: just who is shutting our mouths on the Temple Mount? The Knesset gets involved and the plot thickens.
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G-d knows your name. He’s got your number. Torah is His to share with you. All its paths lead to Him. And all you’ve got to do is ask? No! All you’ve got to do is dedicate your every moment to living a life of Torah, and He will open each and every door. It’s your birthright. This is what we learn from parashat Bamidbar, the opening chapters of the book of Numbers, and this is the message of the holiday of Shavuot – coming up next week!
Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)
Parashat Bamidbar is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 2, 5773/May 11, 2013
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This week features:
The Flags of Jerusalem Day and the Flags of Mount Sinai
From Jerusalem Day to Shavuout: A Lesson in Jewish Unity 101
As we prepare to usher in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers) which we will begin reading this Shabbat, this week’s edition of Temple Talk focuses on the observance of Jerusalem Day, which this year marks the 46th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman reflect on the amazing spiritual significance of this special day, and its connection, exactly one week later, to the festival of Shavuot, which commemorates Israel receiving the Torah at the Sinai Revelation. What’s the connection? Here’s a hint: One is not the loneliest number!
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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I have found in the Scriptures on the subject of compulsion and predetermination, control and will, that all [these] are G-d’s in respect to all that He has created, whether mineral or vegetable, animal or rational, as it is written:
Whatever G-d willed, He did — in heaven and on earth (Tehillim 135:6); G-d puts to death and brings life; He casts down into the graves and raises up. G-d makes poor and makes rich; He brings low, He also exalts (Shmuel 1, 2:6-7); Who has spoken and it come to pass, unless G-d has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come? (Eichah 3:37-38); I form light and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil (Yeshiyahu 45:7); Unless G-d builds the house, its builders toll in vain on it. Unless G-d watches over the city, the watchman stays on alert in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and stay up late, you who eat bread of anxious toil; for He grants sleep to His beloved (Tehillim 127:1-2).
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