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Archive for Tishre / Marheshwan 5776 - October 2015
Believing is seeing: seeing G-d’s presence in the world, in sickness and in health, (the opening verses of Vayera), in the good and the bad, (the destruction of Sodom), and even when G-d seems to place an impossible task before us, (the binding of Yitzchak). Avraham’s open-eyed faith in G-d led him to Mount Moriah, the place of the future Holy Temple, the place Avraham named “‘HaShem will see,’ as it is said to this day: On the mountain, ‘HaShem will be seen.'” (Genesis 22:14)
Lech Lecha (Genesis 18:1 – 22:24)
Parashat Vayera is read on Shabbat:
MarCheshvan 18, 5776/October 31, 2015
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This week features:
The Temple Mount: To See and To Be Seen
A Mountain, A Field, and a House: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the holy forefathers of Israel, refine the concept of the Holy Temple.
The tenth and final test of Abraham’s faith takes place in this week’s Torah portion of Vayera: Akeidat Yitzchak, the Binding of Isaac, a seminal event in the consciousness and development of the people of Israel. This week on Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman explore Abraham’s unique relationship with the Temple Mount, and its connection with the current struggle over sovereignty, the lie of the ‘status quo,’ and the perennial battle between truth and falsehood that takes place at the holiest place on earth. Rabbi Richman will be on a speaking tour in the USA during the month of November, and Yitzchak Reuven will be flying Temple Talk solo for the next several weeks. Details of the rabbi’s appearances in the USA are available on the Temple Institute’s facebook page and at www.templeinstitute.org
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Avraham wasn’t just the biological ancestor of the nation of Israel. He wasn’t merely a migrant seeking a new land. And his name wasn’t simply chosen out of a hat by G-d to receive the commandment of lech lecha – “go for yourself” – on a journey. Avraham was the world’s first and greatest iconoclast and revolutionary, completely upending the way things were and introducing a new, and an ever new and ever renewing way of understanding and living life with the intimate knowledge of and personal acquaintance with the One G-d.
Avraham sought G-d, and G-d took him in: into the land, into G-d’s covenant, and into G-d’s heart.
Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
Parashat Lech Lecha is read on Shabbat:
MarCheshvan 11, 5776/October 24, 2015
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This week features:
John Kerry & ‘The Birthright of Every Human Being’
The Month of MarCheshvan, Maimonides, and Praying for Rain: Measuring Time by the Holy Temple
This week’s edition of Temple Talk explores this current Hebrew month of MarCheshvan’s amazing connection to the Holy Temple. In so many ways, this connection is making itself felt these days, as the Temple Mount becomes the focus of world attention. What is really going on here? Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman examine the evidence, especially in the light of this week’s Torah portion of Lech Lecha, where we are introduced to Avram, soon to become Avraham, the first Jew.
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A generation so evil, so corrupt, decadent, violent, so self centered that G-d, Who created and loved their forefather Adam, could not suffer their depravity and swore their utter destruction. This is the generation of the flood, the generation of Noach.
Fast forward five thousand years to the present and you will witness a generation every bit as iniquitous as that of Noach. Is man preparing his own extinction? Where is today’s ark that will rescue the righteous?
Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)
Parashat Noach is read on Shabbat:
MarCheshvan 4, 5776/October 17, 2015
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This week features:
The Month of Mar Cheshvan: Holy Temple Blues
Arab Terror in Israel: Parashat Noach, The Fall of Western Civilization, and the End of the World
This week’s Temple Talk welcomes in the new month of Mar Cheshvan, month of Noah’s flood and the future Holy Temple. But the new month enters against the backdrop of the heinous murders that have taken place all over Israel, and today’s horrific casualties from two terror attacks in Jerusalem. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman examine and analyze the current situation from both a Biblical and political standpoint, finding ample connections between these issues and our weekly Torah portion. If you care about this world, this is a wrenching, difficult, and very necessary program which you cannot afford to miss.
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The yearly cycle of reading the Torah, which concludes and then begins again on Simchat Torah, is a never-ending mobius strip of ever increasing self knowledge and exploration. The Torah’s concluding words, “before the eyes of all Israel,” point to an incident which occurred midway through the Torah narrative, one in which Moshe’s laser-sharp response to a gathering spiritual crisis changed everything in life since then, enabling us to begin the adventure of Torah anew each year, with new eyes and pure hearts.
B’reishith (Genesis 1:1-6:8)
Parashat B’reishith is read on Shabbat:
Tishrei 27, 5776/October 10, 2015
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