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Light to the Nations
Rabbi Chaim Richman and Temple Institute Director Yehudah Glick discuss the Hakhel events which the Temple Institute conducted during the first of the intermediary days of Sukkot, and the unprecedented response of the people of Israel who arrived from the four corners of the land by the hundreds and thousands to participate in the biblically commanded Hakhel ceremony and to ascend in reverence to the Temple Mount, where Torah verses were recited aloud to mark the Hakhel.
The Rabbi and Yehudah describe the spiritual awakening they were witness to and the growing reconnection of the Jewish nation with the Temple Mount, the holiest place on earth.
To read more and view pictures of the Temple Mount Hakhel gathering, please click here.
To read more and view pictures of the Old City Hakhel ceremony, please click here.
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter six: The Rambam describes the topographical requirements of the very contour of the Temple Mount.
(To learn more about the structure of the Holy Temple, please visit our Illustrated Tour.)
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Part I: Deep secrets of the joy that characterizes the holiday of Sukkot.
To learn how Sukkot is observed in the Holy Temple, please click here.)
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Part II: Deep secrets of the joy that characterizes the holiday of Sukkot.
To learn how Sukkot is observed in the Holy Temple, please click here.)
Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on October 29, 2008, (Tishrei 30, 5769).
Rachav: Profile in Repentance, Part II: Rachav, the woman of “ill-repute” who lived in the wall of Jericho not only hosted the two spies sent by Joshua, but used the opportunity their presence afforded her to repent of her past deeds, and become herself a righteous woman of valor. Part II of a two part study of teshuva – repentance.
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
The sublime joy of repentance. Seen by some from the “outside” as a day of doom and gloom, Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, is described by our sages as the happiest day of the year. What could possibly be more joyful than being given the Divine gift of being able to “come clean” before G-d? What happier moment could occur than the experience of G-d erasing our past sins and granting us the opportunity to begin again as righteous ones before Him?
To learn how Yom Kippur is observed in the Holy Temple, please click here.)
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
On Rosh HaShana the book of life is opened before G-d, King of all creation. But it is our actions and intentions that determine whether our names wil be enscribed within the book of life, or the other book.
The custom on Rosh HaShana is to eat foods which can be seen as representing the positive things we hope will transpire over the coming year. This is not done as a lighthearted descent into superstitious practice, G-d forbid! but as a vehicle to focus and make clear our intentions to make positive change occur. The power to enscribe our names into G-d’s good book, and to write our own narratives belongs exclusively to us, the faithful subjects of the King of the universe.
To learn how Rosh HaShana is observed in the Holy Temple, please click here.)