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The twelve massive stones Israel is commanded to to take from the Jordan River bed from the very spot upon which the feet of the priests who held the Ark of the Covenant stood, and to stand upright and build with them an altar and write upon them the entire Torah, are not mere markers or billboards. These stones’ function is to make real Israel’s eternal unbreakable bond to the land promised us by G-d.
Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8)
Parashat Ki Tavo is read on Shabbat:
Elul 18, 5773/August 24, 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:
Joy, Goodness of Heart and an Abundance of Everything
Bringing First Fruits to the Holy Temple: The Joy of Life in the Land of Israel
This week’s Torah portion of Ki Tavo opens with the ultimate expression of true joy: the bringing of first fruits by every Israelite to the Holy Temple. This Torah-mandated, Temple-era ritual – soon to be renewed with the rebuilding of the Holy Temple – is the consummate experience of gratitude and humility, as well as the keenest manifestation of the sheer joy that is a result of living in the Land of Israel. But isn’t strange that this Torah portion, which begins with a portrayal of ultimate joy, also contains the ominous, portent-filled ‘curses?’ That dichotomy seems to be the perfect description of our world. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman don’t think it’s strange at all, as they plumb the depths of what it really means to serve G-d “with joy, goodness of heart and from an abundance of everything” – and find that there is one common root to everything, on this week’s moving edition of Temple Talk.
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Coarse lust or true love? Superficial yearnings or deep prophecy? Life is full of battles and each battle brings out the worst or the best in us. We are only human, and that is precisely why Torah provides a lifeline, whatever our strengths or failings. Today, in the month of Elul, we need to see ourselves for who we are, and use this special time of reflection and repentance to return to the person we are meant to be.
Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)
Parashat Ki Teitzei is read on Shabbat:
Elul 11, 5773/August 17, 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:
A Mantra for Elul: Hashem is the Fortress of My Life
Shofar-Blasts and Psalms: The Fine Art of Elul
Elul is here, and teshuva (repentance) is in the air. The Temple Mount has re-opened, the King is in His field, and so are Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman as they continue to visit the Temple Mount in search of the Divine Presence. This week’s Temple Talk focuses with exquisite precision on the Holy Temple, at once the ‘refuge,’ the ‘fortress’ and the ‘sanctuary’ alluded to in Psalm 27, which is customarily recited daily during this month of Elul. This week’s edition of Temple Talk includes an in-depth analysis of King David’s Psalm 27, which crescendos with a message of spiritual hope and empowerment for all sincere spiritual seekers. An unforgettable lesson, not to be missed!
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“Righteousness, righteousness, you shall pursue… “ Only by righteousness and justice can the nation of Israel guarantee its staying power in the land of Israel. Not by negotiating with the enemy, or releasing murderers, or subcontracting her security, or by subordinating her own needs to the demands of her “friends” and “allies.” Righteousness, by way of righteous judges who sit in judgment in the place that G-d will choose – the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem.
Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9)
Parashat Shoftim is read on Shabbat:
Elul 4, 5773/August 10, 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:
Parashat Shoftim: The Pursuit of Righteousness and Justice
Rosh Chodesh Elul and the Temple Mount: Locked Out of My Beloved’s House!
The confluence this week of the beginning of the month of Elul and the reading of Parashat Shoftim brings us a double serving of the need for justice, righteousness and repentance. The King is in the field; the field is the Temple Mount, and the Holy Temple is the place that, when “a matter of judgement is hidden from you”…then, “you shall rise up and ascend to the place that Hashem shall choose.” For the Beit HaMikdash is the seat of justice and righteousness. What happens when Elul, the special time of emphasis for these themes, rolls around, and we are still locked out of the Temple Mount? Join Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman this week on Temple Talk as they welcome the new month of Elul with brave new insights into this week’s Torah portion, plus brave hope for Israel’s challenges in the coming year.
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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 Voice of Your Brother’s Blood Cries Out to Me
Hashem, Your G-d is Testing You, to Know Whether You Love Hashem…
In these waning end days of the month of the Consoling Father, consolation is indeed in order, and much needed, as the citizens of the State of Israel grapple with the government’s mind-boggling decision to free 104 convicted murderers and torturers of Jewish men, women, children, and unborn children, as a “pre-condition” to the next round of suicidal, self-destructive “peace talks.” This week’s edition of Temple Talk finds Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman in somber reflection, brutal analysis and heartfelt prayer, plugging everything in to this week’s Torah reading of parashat Re’eh. Ultimately our fate is not determined in Washington – it is to be determined here, in the Land of Israel, as G-d tests His people, whom He calls in this very week’s Torah portion His “children” and His “treasure,” urging them through these events to return to Him and to set the course of their own destiny back on track.
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