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Archive for Elul 5774 / Tishre 5775 - September 2014
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Rejoice With Trembling
Rosh Hashana, The International Coalition Against Evil
The sages of Israel teach that there are three books open on Rosh HaShana, and every man signs his own name to one of them. Which book will your name be in? Join Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman for the last Temple Talk broadcast of the year 5774! Our hosts present a beautiful panorama of what Rosh HaShana really means, as the fate of all mankind, every individual and every nation, is written on this day. What should we expect? What should we be praying for? And how do we get the most out of this awesome experience? It’s all here in this inspiring edition of Temple Talk, last installment for this year. But remember, there’s a brand-new year coming, 5775, “The Year of the Holy Temple!”
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In this week’s parasha the children of Israel are about to enter into a covenant with Hashem, and we are today about to enter into the new year of 5775. The same challenge that stood before Israel as she stood poised to enter the land, stands before us today. We must stand strong in the face of the evil and death that encompasses us all around, and be poised and ready to take a stand and to act for good and life and blessing in the world. Building the Holy Temple, a source of light and blessing and a bulwark against the curse of darkness is this generation’s challenge and responsibility. We must stand together as one and build! Shana Tova!
Nitzavim-Vayelech (Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30)
Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech is read on Shabbat:
Elul 25, 5774/September 20, 2014
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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 Blessing and the Curse
Rosh HaShana: Appointment with Destiny for All Humanity!
In this penultimate edition of Temple Talk for the year 5774, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman find striking similarities between the themes of this week’s Torah portions and Rosh HaShana, and the choices facing the entire world today. What kind of world do we want to live in? After all, the upcoming New Year is a time of judgement – and a time of decision – for all humanity. The blessing and the curse are both within reach, Moshe tells us in this week’s parasha, and it is up to us to decide what we want. But the decision requires true integrity, and accepting our responsibility for the whole world. The leaders of the free world seem to have decided against recognizing the face of pure evil. But in what may be the most politically incorrect Temple Talk of all time, our hosts confront Islam head on, and challenge the world to acknowledge and admit what Islamic terror is really all about, before it is too late.
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The good, the bad and the blessing. It’s all here in parashat Ki Tavo. From the sublime perfect moment of being alive in G-d’s Holy Temple, first-fruits in hand, heart overflowing with joy and gratitude, declaring our recognition of G-d’s hand in every thing we do and every soul we touch, to the nightmare wasteland of the admonitions. Joy, community, thankfulness? Helplessness, despair, isolation? The choice is ours.
Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8)
Parashat Ki Tavo is read on Shabbat:
Elul 18, 5774/September 13, 2014
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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:
ISIS Flags on the Temple Mount
A Pre-Rosh HaShana Primer: The Transforming Power of the Shofar
With the holy New Year, Rosh HaShana, coming up in just another two weeks, this week’s edition of Temple Talk features our hosts discussing the major themes of Rosh HaShana. The program also focuses on the Divinely-mandated service of this special holiday – the sounding of the shofar. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman discuss the reasons and allusions behind the shofar, in a show chock full of Biblical references and insights. Plus: Yitzchak Reuven shares his amazing adventures riding the Jerusalem Light Rail, packed with strange gyrations, fist-bumps and optics.
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Just as G-d’s presence fills the world but G-d is not the world, so too, G-d’s mercy fills creation but but G-d can’t be defined by His attribute of mercy. Some commandments, such as shiluach haken – the chasing away of the mother bird before taking her eggs or chicks – are expressions of G-d’s mercy. Other commandments, such as the commandment to utterly destroy Amalek, come to show us that mercy alone cannot sustain the world, and that the revelation of G-d’s mercy alone cannot define our commitment to perform His commandments.
Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)
Parashat Ki Teitzei is read on Shabbat:
Elul 11, 5774/September 6, 2014
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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 ‘Escape Ramp’ of Elul
The Monstrous Hordes of the Islamic State: The World is in Denial
It’s Elul, repentance is in the air, the King is in the field, and it’s Temple Talk’s favorite time of year. It’s a time to get down, get real, and slam on the brakes of lives that at times seem to be running out of control. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman continue to wax eloquent on the special qualities and spiritual propensities of this month, shedding new light and sharing their innovative thoughts. At the same time, our hosts present a global reality check on Islamic terror vs. the world’s preoccupation with Israel, and deliver a blistering critique of the world’s apathy in the face of the growing horrors of the Islamic State. After all, who’s really destroying the world? Is it the Islamic monsters of ISIS, or the Jews who are building houses for their children in the Land of Israel, who dare to ‘expropriate’ land in Eretz Yisrael?
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