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Archive for Tishre / Marheshwan 5775 - October 2014
This is so important to your understanding of real life Torah.
Avraham avinu (our father Abraham), sought G-d and loved G-d. G-d called to Avraham to leave all behind and journey to a land G-d would bequeath to Avraham’s as yet unborn children. Avraham’s understanding that the world has a Master and that He rules His world with love and with justice informs Avraham’s children to this day.
Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
Parashat Lech Lecha is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 8, 5775/November 1, 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:
Abraham’s Guarantee for Mankind
The Month of Mar Cheshvan: Making G-D’s Dreams Come True
On the backdrop of the onset of the ‘bittersweet’ month of MarCheshvan, the ‘silent’ intifada of Arab violence in Jerusalem, and the mission of our father Abraham in this week’s Torah portion of Lech Lecha, this week’s edition of Temple Talk, finds Yitzhak Reuven and Rabbi Richman analyzing the special mystical relationship between this month, which features no major holidays, and the future dedication of the Third Temple. Temple and Temple Mount activism are emanating from Mount Moriah all the way to the halls of the Knesset… there is a natural, intuitive and ongoing spiritual revolution in Israel that is the legacy of our forefather Abraham and the key to the rebuilding of the Temple in our time.
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Before the beginning, before the heavens and the earth, before darkness and light, night and day, the stars and illuminations, the creatures of the sea, the crawling things, the birds or the beasts… even before the first Shabbat – G-d laid out the primordial foundations for His relationship with man. It is upon these unshakable foundations that all creation is built.
Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)
Parashat Noach is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 1, 5774/Octoberber 25, 2014
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This week features:
Genesis & the Big Bang of Faith
A New Year of Work Toward the Holy Temple Begins!
It is a new year and a new dawn as Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven emerge from their Sukkot strongholds and replant their feet in the newly created (again) world of the opening chapters of Genesis. But no sooner do they re-acclimate to “In the beginning, version 5775” then the blessed rains that fell in Israel on Sunday become the torrential flood of Noach’s day.
The beautiful world that G-d created quickly went awry due to man’s avarice and is still in need of fixing and that is exactly what is taking place today in the land of Israel. Growing interest in the Temple Mount and Holy Temple is transforming into Holy Temple fever as the Sukkot holiday witnesses hundreds of Jews ascending the Temple Mount in spite of severe restrictions and an unprecedented, first time in 2000 years reenactment of the traditional Sukkot Water Libation ceremony which was last celebrated in the Holy Temple. This time the ceremony began with the drawing of water by a kohen from the Shiloach spring and concluded by a model altar in Jerusalem’s old city Jewish quarter. But the more than 1000 spectators, the joy visible on their faces and the tears in their eyes was a resounding statement that the people of Israel are marching toward the Holy Temple. Start your 5775 the right way – with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven on Temple Talk!
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Our yearly rendezvous with G-d, which began in the month of Av, built up steam throughout the month of Elul, left us reeling and breathless from Rosh HaShana and literally out of this world on Yom Kippur, now places us in the only place possible for us to be in our heightened state of close proximity to G-d: in our Sukkot booths. These temporary dwellings are like our own personal Holy of Holies – beyond time and space – a heavenly embrace – seven perfect days.
Chag Sameach – חג שמח – Have a Joyful Sukkot!
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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:
Temple Talk Sukkot Special
Welcome 5775, the Year of the Holy Temple!
From the sobering judgment of Rosh HaShana, the New Year, through the awesome cleansing of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we now head straight for the protective shadow of the sukkah booth, our temporary dwellings reminiscent of the Divine clouds of glory that shielded Israel throughout her temporary desert wanderings. If there’s one thing that the glorious holidays of Tishrei remind us of, it’s that everything in this world is temporary. That’s why we need to sanctify and elevate every moment. Which is exactly what happens in the Holy Temple! Join Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman this week for a special Tishrei roundup, reflecting on this Divine cycle of time all the way through to Simchat Torah, when we begin reading the Torah once again from the beginning.
Plus: So much has happened this past year that has helped to pave the way towards the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in our time! Now the Temple Institute is beginning its newest, most ambitious program of preparing blueprints for the Temple sanctuary… and during this holiday of Sukkot, a special, joyous part of the Temple service will be reenacted for the first time in almost two thousand years! A Temple Talk you will not want to miss. Temple Talk will not be recorded during the festival of Sukkot… the next edition of Temple Talk will be on Tuesday, Oct. 21st. Chag Sameach!
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