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Temple Institute Shows
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
“And I will surely hide My face in that day.” (Deuteronomy 31:18) When we transgress our covenant with G-d it is our own feelings of remorse and self disappointment that create a distance between ourselves and G-d, causing Him to hide His countenance from us. But this terrifying sense of remoteness is no more than a self-generated illusion, as G-d is always with us, in our good moments and our bad.
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Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-31:30)
Parashat Vayelech is read on Shabbat:
Tishrei 5, 5769/October 4, 2008
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.
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
“Even if you are dispersed in the ends of heaven, from there will HaShem your G-d gather you in, and from there He will take you.” (Deuteronomy 30:4) Parashat Nitzavim, the final parasha before Rosh HaShana, contains within in the Divine promise that G-d’s children will repent, and that, having done so, G-d will turn back their captivity, and gather them in.
Even if our teshuva – repentance – is not totally pure, but is done for reasons other than purely for the sake of heaven, that is, is done for reasons that are merely “dispersed in the ends of heaven,” even then G-d will accept our teshuva – and gather us in.
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Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20)
Parashat Nitzavim is read on Shabbat:
Elul 27, 5768/September 27, 2008
Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on October 8, 2008, (Tishrei 9, 5769).
Chana, the mother of Samuel the prophet, was a women of incredible spiritual depth, whose prayer, as recorded in the opening verses of the book of I Samuel, forms the structural basis for Jewish prayer to this day. Rena presents part two of this two part teaching as a preparation for the Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur Holy Days.
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
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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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series of short messages concerning the weekly Torah Portion.
The joy of being in the land of Israel, as expressed through the simple act of bringing the first fruits to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and expressing our gratitude to G-d. When all is said and done, fulfilling our own G-d given role in life, and accepting with joy all that He has granted us, is what it’s all about.
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Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8)
Parashat Ki Tavo is read on Shabbat:
Elul 20, 5768/September 20, 2008
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
The month of Elul is the time for learning that our own mistakes and imperfections never create a distance between G-d and ourselves. Elul presents us with a superb opportunity to rekindle our passion for life in a world with G-d, just before the onset of the High Holy Days of the month of Tishrei.
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