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Archive for Tamuz / Menahem Av 5773 - July 2013
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood Cries Out to Me
Hashem, Your G-d is Testing You, to Know Whether You Love Hashem…
In these waning end days of the month of the Consoling Father, consolation is indeed in order, and much needed, as the citizens of the State of Israel grapple with the government’s mind-boggling decision to free 104 convicted murderers and torturers of Jewish men, women, children, and unborn children, as a “pre-condition” to the next round of suicidal, self-destructive “peace talks.” This week’s edition of Temple Talk finds Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman in somber reflection, brutal analysis and heartfelt prayer, plugging everything in to this week’s Torah reading of parashat Re’eh. Ultimately our fate is not determined in Washington – it is to be determined here, in the Land of Israel, as G-d tests His people, whom He calls in this very week’s Torah portion His “children” and His “treasure,” urging them through these events to return to Him and to set the course of their own destiny back on track.
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Parashat Re’eh teaches us how to properly conduct the affairs of the nation of Israel in the land of Israel. It warns us against false prophets who preach transgression and weak leaders who make “painful decisions” which are nothing less than gross violations of everything that Torah teaches us, attempting to lead Israel into pacts with foreign cultures and false gods, foisting a Moloch-like death cult upon the righteous people of Israel.
Re’eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17)
Parashat Re’eh is read on Shabbat:
Av 27, 5773/August 3, 2013
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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There are types of people who make the effort of acquiring wealth only for the love of honor and to make a name for themselves, so that no matter how much they have, it is not enough for them. This is due to their ignorance of what will bring [real] honor in this world and the next. It is occasioned by their observing the deference paid to the wealthy by the common people, who honor them only because they crave what they have and desire to attain what is in their possession.
One finds, among those who seek wealth, that one person attains all that he desires o it through the means we have mentioned and another attains it through inheritance and the like, and each thinks that it is the means that made him acquire it, that without the means he would not have attained it. [Hence] he exalts the means, and not the Cause.
Dedicated to the Kiddushin (Betrothal) Wade and Whitney Green
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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…Yet one must take initiative and pursue natural means; For example, although a person’s end and length of their life are determined by the decree of the Creator, may He be exalted, [they] must still pursue the [necessary] means of subsistence — food and drink, clothing and shelter — in accordance with [their] needs, and not leave this to HaShem, saying, if HaShem has foreordained that I will live, He will preserve my soul within my body without food, all the days of my life, and I need not bother to seek a livelihood and endure the toil and exertion this entails.
For example, the owner of a field should plow it, clear it of thorns, sow it, and water it, if the water is available; and at the same time, rely on the Creator, may He be exalted, to make it fertile, protect it from disasters, increase its yield, and bless it. He should not leave untilled and unsown, relying on the Creator’s predetermined that it will bear fruit without him first sowing seed. In the same way, artisans, merchants, and labors must pursue their livelihood in their respective callings, while trusting HaShem that sustenance is in His power and under His control, the He guarantees it to a man and provides it to him by whatever means He pleases. One should not think that the [intermediate] cause can help of harm him at all.
Dedicated to Joe and April Janutka
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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:
The Eyes of Hashem Your G-d are Always Upon the Land of Israel
The Eternal Message of Tu B’Av: Get Up Out of Your Graves and Start to Live!
The music is back on Temple Talk. This week’s parashat Eikev tells us of the unparalleled perfection of the Land of Israel, as Menachem Av, the month of the consoling father enters into its second half, bringing with it healing, light and the eternal love of G-d’s promises of consolation to Israel. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman explore the paradigm shift of this month “from mourning to dance” (Psalms 30), and discover some of the eternal messages of Tu B’Av, the ‘minor’ holiday of the fifteenth day of this month, which was a major festival in Temple times and today, intuitively, has become a day of celebrating love in Israel, even as the day beckons the soon rebuilding of the Holy Temple. Our hosts reveal that there is much more to Tu B’Av than dating, love and marriage… the day conveys no less than the secret of the return of prophecy to Israel, and its power shines for the rest of the year!
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The land of Israel – every grain of it – belongs to the people of Israel. By virtue of her diligent adherence to G-d’s commandments, Israel will come into undisputed possession of the land.
Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25)
Parashat Eikev is read on Shabbat:
Av 20, 5773/July 27, 2013
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Shma Yisrael – Hear O Israel – we are commanded to love G-d with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our might, wherever we might be, whatever our disappointments, regardless of whether G-d has answered our prayers in the affirmative. Loving G-d is something we must strive to do always.
Va’etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11)
Parashat Va’etchanan is read on Shabbat:
Av 13, 5773/July 20, 2013
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