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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:
Chanukah: Uncompromising Non-Warm Non-Fuzzy Defense of Torah
Yosef & His Brothers: Who is ‘Fessing What & Who is Forgiving Whom?
‘Tis the season of confrontation: Yosef squares off with his brothers, Yehudah and the Maccabees square off with the Greek oppressors and the Hellenizers from within, Israel squares off with the United States over its policy of detente with the genocidal regime of the Iranian ayatollahs, and Jewish worshipers on the Temple Mount square off with violent Muslim mobs.
No sooner did the Maccabees defeat the Greeks than the scourge of Hellenization began its return. No sooner do Yosef and his brothers reconcile than Pharaoh begins to impose the rules of exile. The harsh but crucial lesson: We must always be vigilant in our devotion to G-d and our love of the land of Israel.
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The seismic shocks, the tectonic rumblings, the pulsating magnetic fields could all be felt from one end of creation to the next when Yehudah drew near to Yosef in their battle for custody of Binyamin. Neither brother was willing to abandon Binyamin and that’s what G-d wanted to know! When Yosef revealed his true identity to Yehudah and the others, they all realized that they could lay down their arms: It was all in G-d’s hands!
Vayigash (Genesis 45:28-46:7)
Parashat Vayigash is read on Shabbat:
Tevet 4, 5774/December 7, 2013
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Bat Melech – with Rena Richman
A special Chanukkah teaching just recorded in Lubbock, TX at the South Plains Hebraic Center.
The Created “OR” (Light) of Chanukkah
Like an antidote to the chaos and darkness G-d said “Let there be Light (OR אור), and there was Light.” We find that from the very beginning Chanukah is stamped in the text of the Torah: the twenty-fifth word of the Torah is OR אור and Chanukah begins on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev…
This teaching is also available for purchase on DVD from this link
Dedication: Dedicated to all the wonderful people we visited on the tour!
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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:
Spirit of the Maccabees: All For the ONE G-D!
Yosef in Egypt, the Start-Up Nation and the Original Jewish Lobby
The leaders of the nations today have brought the world to the edge of darkness in a repeat performance of one of the greatest capitulations to evil of all-time, all for a headline and a few petro-dollars. Too bad not one of the Geneva Ghouls bothered to look at this week’s Torah reading, parashat Miketz. They could have gotten a mighty lesson in real leadership, you know, the kind where man places G-d, and not himself, in the driver’s seat, as Yosef did in leading Egypt out of darkness. But if it’s darkness the world leaders want, who you gonna call? That’s right, the original Dark-Busters – the Maccabees! It is time to learn again how to stick it to the man and reintroduce holy light into the world! Plus, the inside story of the Chanuka rededication of the Holy Temple and the rekindling of the Temple menorah.
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The story of Yosef’s descent into the darkness of Egypt and his rise to leadership coincides each year with the eight day festival of Chanukah. They likewise share the same deep lesson: All of life’s seemingly chaotic randomness is, in truth, directed by G-d. Our role is not merely to trust in G-d’s benevolence but to work without rest to insure our own part in His great plan. This is what distinguished Yosef and this is what distinguished the Chashmonean kohanim who led the Jewish revolt against the Greek oppressors.
Miketz (Genesis 41:1-44:17)
Parashat Miketz is read on Shabbat:
Kislev 27, 5774/November 30, 2013
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Have you ever felt utterly and completely alone? Yosef must have. He was separated from his loving father and his brothers wanted to kill him. Ultimately he was thrown in a pit filled with scorpions and snakes and then sold to some passing Ishmaelites, who in turn sold him into slavery. Yet we’re never alone, and if our hearts are turned to G-d, we will identify His fingerprint upon our lives.
Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23)
Parashat Vayeshev is read on Shabbat:
Kislev 20, 5774/November 23, 2013
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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:
Mainstreaming Jewish Presence on the Temple Mount
“All I’ve got to do is Dream, dream, dream… ” It’s the month of Kislev!
While Rabbi Richman wraps up the southwestern leg of his USA speaking tour and heads to the east coast, Yitzchak Reuven finds himself alone at the mike! But as Yosef teaches us, we are never alone. From here on in the book of Genesis focuses on a series of dreams which propel the story of Yosef and his brothers. How appropriate that the month of Kislev is all about sleep and dreaming. Sleep, such an important part of our spiritual existence, calls for special prayers and meditations before we go to sleep and special thanks and words of gratitude when we awaken from our sleep. When it comes to the Temple Mount we do not sleep but insist on our right to be seen there by G-d and our duty to pray there to the Master of the Universe.
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