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Confusion reigns in our modern world, and every aspect of modern society seems to feed on this confusion, fanning the flames of man’s existential disconnect with his own true self. The Holy Temple, and more specifically, the offering of animals on the stone altar in the Holy Temple, is designed to banish man’s confusion by compelling him to focus on who he is and to Whom he is answerable. Are we just a link on the food chain, or is our G-d given soul that which determines who we can be?
Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36)
Parashat Tzav is read on Shabbat:
2 Adar 13, 5774/March 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:
The Plain Truth on Torah, Vegetarianism, & the Temple Offerings
In Defense of the Korbonot: The Much Maligned Service of the Holy Temple
Purim is coming, the holiday of turnabout and hidden Divine providence. The true essence of this highly beloved festival seems to hidden, just as the name of G-d is hidden from the scroll of Esther. In this week’s edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman explore another another hidden aspect of Purim, which lies at the very heart of the scroll of Esther: the struggle for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. Foreign domination and subterfuge, internal wrangling, complicity and conspiracy of silence… we are fighting the very same battle for the Holy Temple today. It all goes hand in hand with the Torah portions of the book of Vayikra, as the profound and timeless truth of the Temple offerings peeks out at us from behind the latticework, like the hidden presence of G-d in the Purim story. This confluence between the highly misunderstood subject of the korbonot and the inner truth of the Purim story are fused together in this week’s unique edition of Temple Talk.
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From the moment of creation it has been leading up to this: The “face to face” reunion of man and G-d in the intimacy of the Tabernacle. But, jaded by lifetimes of exile and wandering, we are required to re-attain the purity and guileless innocence of untainted youth. If you are brave enough to shed off some layers of cynicism and skepticism and are ready to take on the you you were meant to be, the book of Leviticus is the perfect place to rediscover the original self you left behind long ago.
Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26)
Parashat Vayikra is read on Shabbat:
2 Adar 6, 5774/March 8, 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:
Beam Me Up, Abdullah: The Trekkie’s Guide to the Temple Mount
Science Fiction, Temple Mount, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Connect the Dots
As Israel begins the third book of the Torah, Vayikra (Leviticus), this week’s edition of Temple Talk takes place in parallel universes… or should we say in multiple galaxies? The book of Vayikra focuses completely on the Divine service in the Holy Temple. That service is designed to cause the light of the Shechina, the Divine Presence, to shine forth from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to all the world. But in the meantime, it has become abundantly clear that Abdullah, King of Jordan is controlling the Temple Mount like a corrupt fiefdom. In recent episodes of Temple Talk we have discussed Jordan’s illegal stranglehold on the Temple Mount, and this week’s Temple Talk provides a crash course in everything you need to know about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Or at least the most important things, such as King Abdullah’s love of the Star Trek franchise, an obsession so total that he actually appears in an episode! A two-bit cameo actor with no lines, this beduin tribesman is insecurely ruling over a Palestinian majority. Ironically, while the King may be living out his sci-fi fantasies, the building of the Holy Temple and resumption of the Divine service is not science fiction, but the word of the G-d of heaven and earth. Join us for the most explosive Temple Talk ever, as we boldly go where no man has gone before!
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Welcoming G-d into our neighborhood and making this world a better place – this is the simple yet profound reason Israel has been commanded to build for G-d a Sanctuary on this earth. Israel is a nation whose destiny is to live and act in G-d consciousness, thereby uplifting man and perfecting G-d’s creation.
Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38)
Parashat Pekudei is read on Shabbat:
1 Adar 29, 5774/March 1, 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:
Parashat Pekudei: A Lesson in the Accountability of Our Leaders
Israel’s Peace Accords with Jordan: With Liberty & Justice for All (Except Jews)
In Parashat Pekudei, with its detailed reckonings of the final details of the tabernacle’s construction, the Torah testifies to a new reality which will be the focus of Jewish purpose and consciousness from this point onward. But as our hosts report this week, that reality has been replaced by an alternative reality – one based on lies, distortion and denial. This Shabbat is also Shabbat Shekalim, one of the four special Torah readings which precede the festival of Passover. Shabbat Shekalim is all about the preparations which the Jewish people begin during the month of Adar for the upcoming Passover pilgrimage to the Holy Temple. But in the twisted, mirror-image world of the Temple Mount today, Jewish people are treated as criminals and prevented from uttering a single word of prayer… as witnessed this past week by two great friends of Israel, Congressmen Bill Johnson (R OH) and Congressman David McKinley (R WV). Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman had the honor of guiding these gentlemen on a fact-finding tour of the Temple Mount, where the American lawmakers, “guilty by association,” were “treated like Jews” and were able to witness firsthand the Waqf’s criminal persecution of Jewish worshipers. Who is to blame for this sordid state of affairs? The Jordanian-backed Waqf, a hostile, illegal group within the sovereign State of Israel? The Israel Police? Our own Prime Minister? These questions and more are scheduled to be clarified in a special, historic Knesset meeting which will discuss the issue of official Israeli sovereignty on the holy Mount. Hear all about these crucial developments on this week’s compelling edition of Temple Talk.
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Within two days only Israel brought to Moshe all the gold and silver and copper and blue techelet and purple argaman and crimson shani and goat skins and tachash skins and precious stones needed to make the Tabernacle, all its vessels and the priestly garments. Giving hearts brought all this to the wise hearts who fashioned from these raw materials the Tabernacle, all its vessels and the priestly garments. Nothing can stand between Israel and G-d and the Holy Temple if wise and giving hearts are willing.
Vayakhel (Exodus 35:1-38:20)
Parashat Vayakhel is read on Shabbat:
1 Adar 22, 5774/February 22, 2014
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