Another Side of Elul, Part I

Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.

Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.

Elul, the unsung month, has so much to offer as we prepare ourselves for the new year. “The King is in the field,” and the days of Elul are laden with spiritual opportunity for taking stock, redirecting our energies, and being seen and heard by the King as He makes His rounds, seeking us out, looking to draw us closer to Him.

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Mystery of the Talit, part I

Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.

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Our first actions upon waking each morning are sanctifying our hands through washing, and enwrapping ourselves within the talit. Rabbi Chaim Richman shows how it is done, providing the spiritual reasons for and results of our morning spiritual obligations as per our sages and Torah.

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The Chamber of the Priestly Garments

Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.

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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter five: Eight chambers open into the Court of the Israelites. Two of those chambers, the Griddle Cake Makers Chamber and the Chamber of Pinchas the Haberdasher, straddle either side of the Nikanor Gate located in the eastern wall of the Israelite Court. The Chamber of Pinchas is where the priestly garments were manufactured, stored and distributed to the priests beginning their duty at the Holy Temple.
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The Chambers of the Israelite Court, part II

Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.

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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter five: Eight chambers open into the Court of the Israelites. Having already described the chambers along the southern border of the Israelite Court in last week’s teaching, Rabbi Richman goes on to describe the  chambers along the northern wall of the Israelite Court: The Chamber of Hewn Stone, the Chamber of the Wheel, and the Parhedrin: the private quarters of the High Priest. The Rabbi describes at length the four lotteries which were conducted daily in the Chamber of Hewn Stone for the purposes of assigning tasks for the serving priests.

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Tu b’Av (The Fifteenth of Av)

Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.

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Revealing the mysteries of the magnificent month of Menachem Av - the compassionate father. From sackcloth to dancing, from sadness to joy.

This teaching is a rebroadcast of last year’s Tu b’Av special.

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The Chambers of the Israelite Court

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 five: Eight chambers open into the Court of the Israelites. Beginning with the southern border of the Israelite Court, Rabbi Richman begins to enumerate the Chamber of Salt, the Parvah Chamber, and the Washing Chamber. Moving to the northern border, he describes the Chamber of Hewn Stone - the chamber where the Great Sanhedrin sat.

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The Month of Av

Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.

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It takes a great month to bear the burden of the great calamities which have befallen the Jewish people during her days. The month of Menachem Av waits patiently for us to pick up the pieces, rebuild the Holy Temple, and usher in a better world.

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