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Archive for Marheshwan / Kislev 5775 - November 2014
Avraham saw his appointed meeting place with G-d as a distant and foreboding mountain, (Mount Moriah), and Yitzchak envisioned the Holy Temple to be a field, accessible and alive. But it was Yaakov who understood the Holy Temple to be a home, a nurturing, loving center in which G-d and all mankind can embrace.
Vayeitzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3)
Parashat Vayeitzei is read on Shabbat:
Kislev 7, 5775/November 29, 2014
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Yitzchak avinu (Isaac our patriarch) was a man of vision blinded by the light of G-d’s brilliant and hidden presence. He lived, he died, and he lived again to bless his son Yaakov, ‘ish tam,’ the perfectible man, with the task of bringing G-d’s light into the world for all to perceive.
Portion (Genesis 25:19-28:9)
Parashat Portion is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 29, 5775/November 22, 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:
Massacre In Jerusalem
The Muslim View On Jewish Prayer: On The Temple Mount – Or In A Har Nof Synagogue
This week’s Torah portion of Toldot tells of the conflict between Yaakov and Esav that began while yet in their mother Rivka’s womb. The implications of this dichotomy, bespeaking worlds in collision, seem to have endless repercussions that reverberate for all eternity. This week’s sobering edition of Temple Talk was recorded just hours after a horrible massacre was perpetrated by Arab terrorists in a Jerusalem neighborhood synagogue during morning prayers, leaving four Jews murdered, and many wounded. A shaken Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman examine the not-so-silent Third Intifida, Israel’s dire need of authentic leadership not dependent on Esav’s favors, and the connection between Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, and Jewish prayer in a neighborhood synagogue.
NOTE TO ALL OUR LISTENERS: Temple Talk will be breaking for three weeks. The next edition of Temple Talk will be broadcast, with G-d’s help, on Kislev 24 – Dec. 16th, 2014.
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The purchase of the Machpelah cave by Avraham is the first of three incontestable acquisitions of the land of Israel that the holy Torah testifies to. The others are Kever Yosef, the tomb of Yosef, built upon land purchased by our patriarch Yaakov, and the threshing floor of Arvona, purchased by King David, upon which was built the Holy Temple. It is these three places precisely that our enemies currently seek to steal from Israel, using lies and deceptions, knowing full well that these three places are the three pillars upon which the world stands and the three foundation stones upon which Israel’s settlement of the land rests firmly and eternally.
Chayei Sara (Genesis 23:1-25:18)
Parashat Chayei Sara is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 22, 5775/November 15, 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:
Meet Public Enemy Number One
The Prophet Isaiah Vs. Woody Allen: Exile Mentality And The ‘Jewish Problem’
As the bloodthirsty demon of Arab terror once again raises its ugly head this week and claims innocent Jewish lives, the public debate over infraction of the ‘status quo’ on the Temple Mount reaches a deafening, uncivil, and disproportionate level. Its the old game of blaming the victim, with some going so far as to say that the Jews who want to pray peacefully on the Temple Mount, are causing all the problems. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman, proud to be Public Enemy Number One, express their indignation over such twisted logic. This week’s searing-hot edition of Temple Talk is a veritable guide for anyone perplexed over the role of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s ‘silent intifada’ that has now boiled over into other parts of the country. Rabbis and politicians beware! This week’s Temple Talk spares no one in its commitment to the truth… Israel’s return to fully embrace the Temple Mount is the hope of all mankind!
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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:
Israel & Jordan, The Strangest Bedfellows
The Life and Death Struggle of Religious Freedom on the Temple Mount
This week’s Torah portion of parashat Vayera finds Avraham, patriarch of the nation of Israel, being called to ‘the land of Moriah,’ where he will face his ultimate test – the binding of his son Yitzchak upon an altar. Mysteriously, there is no place known as ‘the land of Moriah’… but in this week’s passionate edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman explain why the entire land of Israel, and indeed the whole world, is an extension of Mount Moriah – the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. On the backdrop of the attempted assassination of Yehuda Glick, and the appearance of a new ‘hit list’ on Arab social media that includes one of our show’s hosts, Temple Talk pulls out all the stops and plunges into an intense and searing reality check of why the Temple Mount has become the focus of attention, and what the battle for religious freedom on the Temple Mount means for Israel and all humanity. This program is the climax of a decade of Temple Talk programming, don’t miss it!
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Avraham’s final test was not just the binding of Yitzchak, but no less crucially, the finding of the ‘place’ where G-d directed him to do so. For only in this place, the place where man was created, the place of the altar of the Holy Temple, could the binding of Yitzchak be fulfilled and its significance resonate throughout the ages. The journey to the “land of Moriah” was a journey to the true self of man.
Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24)
Parashat Vayera is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 15, 5775/November 8, 2014
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