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Temple Institute Shows
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Vayakhel: Shabbat, Tabernacle & Jewish vs. Israeli Culture War
Pink Ladies, Elijah the Prophet & the Bankrupt American Orthodox Establishment
As the nation of Israel winds down the Book of Exodus with this week’s penultimate Torah portion of Vayahkel, focusing on the eternal commandments of Sabbath observance and building a home for the Creator, an extremely agitated and impassioned Rabbi Richman bemoans the spiritual bankruptcy of those Jewish leaders who make their homes outside the Land of Israel and yet criticize the rabbis of the Land of Israel who ardently defend our people’s rights to our own land. Echoes of Elijah’s face-off with the false prophets of the Baal; Mordechai’s face-off with the Persian Jewish establishment who wined and dined at Acheshverosh’s glatt kosher pagan banquet… it’s all here in this week’s alarming, disquieting edition of Temple Talk. An all time classic… but not for the faint-hearted.
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That the incident of the golden calf was a mega-debacle is beyond the shadow of a doubt. But what was it all about? What was the sin? Who was behind it? Why did G-d swear Israel’s destruction, then back off? Why did G-d “go easy” concerning the sin of the golden calf, in contrast to the sin of the spies, in which G-d condemned an entire generation to death in the wilderness? Why do our sages say the sin of the golden calf recurs in every generation, and why is Israel poised today to put an end for once and for all to this enduring snare? The answers to all these questions, and more, found within
Ki Tisa (Exodus 30:11-34:35)
Parashat Ki Tisa is read on Shabbat:
1 Adar 15, 5774/February 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:
Ki Tisa: Jewish Unity Vs. The Golden Calf and Other False Gods
Echoes of the Golden Calf: The World Lectures to Israel on Morality & Justice
In this week’s Torah portion of Ki Tisa, we read about the cataclysmic debacle of the Golden Calf: While still standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, Israel is hoodwinked by the nefarious Mixed Multitude, and under their influence, the nation blunders. This week’s powerful, unsettling edition of Temple Talk finds Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman discovering that the nation of Israel is still grappling with the ominous echoes, overtones and results of the Golden Calf even today. It’s not just a question of bowing down to a cow… it’s about disguising and misrepresenting our values. Today’s modern mixed multitude, princes of hypocrisy, continue to dictate Israel’s moral code, and sell her the Brooklyn Bridge… while selling her down the river. Warning: This show is politically incorrect!
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Love and marriage: This is the story of the building of the Tabernacle in the desert. G-d so loved His people Israel that He could not bear to wait until they entered the land before they would build for Him a sanctuary. He ordered a temporary, portable sanctuary that would enable Him to dwell among Israel even during their forty year desert sojourn, so that they could begin at once their life together.
Tetzave (Exodus 27:20-30:10)
Parashat Tetzave is read on Shabbat:
1 Adar 8, 5774/February 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:
Is the Holy Temple a Building of Stone, or a Castle in the Air?
The World to Israel: We’re Not Anti-Semitic, But Why Don’t You Just Die Already?
As the entire people of Israel read the weekly Torah portions that describe the desert Tabernacle, forerunner of the Holy Temple, and all the details of its appointments, Temple Talk takes umbrage at those who think that the more we study, and the nicer we behave, well…. suddenly the Holy Temple will materialize. Is it possible to divest a Torah commandment of its simple and plain meaning? What happened to our reasoning during the long exile? This week’s amazing edition of Temple Talk grapples with the true meaning of the Torah’s commandment to erect a house for G-d, and our hosts take a long, hard look at G-d’s plans for His people Israel, vs. the rules that the nations of the world try to foist upon Israel.
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G-d’s plan for man: Creating a center and focal point for Israel and all mankind to gather together in profound and joyful nearness to G-d. Raising up the world via the reality of the Holy Temple.
Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19)
Parashat Terumah is read on Shabbat:
1 Adar 1, 5774/February 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:
The Ghost Month of Adar I: Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun
Parashat Terumah and the Temple Institute: Bringing the Holy Temple Down to Earth
As the month of Shevat draws to a close, we prepare to welcome the month of Adar, that especially auspicious, ‘lucky’ month. But this year there are two Adars! Are we twice as lucky? This year features the ‘extra’ month of Adar I, an usual phenomena of time on the Hebrew leap year calendar that’s hard to pin down. In this week’s edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman re-define this month as a special, Divinely-appointed opportunity to pack in some ‘extra’ fixing and refinement. Since refinement and re-definition is on our national agenda, what better time to begin reading the Torah portions that deal with the establishment of the Tabernacle and its vessels, the precursor of the Holy Temple and its service. This week we read the portion of Terumah, and from this point on, the Tabernacle/Temple will be the central theme of our Torah readings. But just how seriously do we regard the Torah’s instructions to “Build for Me a Sanctuary, that I will Dwell Among You” (Ex. 25:8)? Our hosts refine and re-define, delving the depths of the meaning of this commandment in a special focus on the work of the Temple Institute in preparing for the resumption of the Divine service in our time.
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