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On Tisha B’Av, the Jewish people mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple. Seated on the floor as mourners, the adults in the synagogue recite the traditional kinnot dirges. But is the goal simply the continuation of the mourning, for the sake of mourning? The children have a different idea of what needs to be done… Please watch and share!
This is a sequel to last year’s viral video The Children are Ready with over 400,000 views.
The Temple Institute thanks all the wonderful children and adults who helped to create this video!
Special Thanks: The Shraga Family, Yosef Adest Videos
Dedicated to Sinai Moshe Feld
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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 Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Jordan
Things Better Left Unsaid Dept.: The Unmentionable Innuendo of John Kerry
Got Flocks? In this week’s concluding Torah portions, Reuven, Gad, and half of Menashe have plenty of livestock, and are envious of the green grass in the Transjordan. Their flocks take precedence over their children. But their worldview was based on misplaced priorities. This week’s Temple Talk takes umbrage with these tribes’ spiritual heirs – those who place their material possessions over the fate of their children. Yitzhak Reuven and Rabbi Richman deliver a passionate overview of our generation’s entrance into the Land of Israel. Plus: John Kerry, wherefore art thou? While we appreciate your hairdo, have you noticed that the world is crumbling into an abyss of decadence and destruction? Yet as always, Israel remains the intransigent troublemaker.
Plus: Stay tuned for the world premiere of the Temple Institute’s all new video production, “The Children are Ready – Tisha b’Av 5773” which will be available for viewing on Sunday, July 7th. A sequel to last year’s highly successful “The Children are Ready” which has over 400,000 views, this year’s Tisha b’Av video message is even more amazing!
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Possessing a G-d consciousness, being aware every moment that we live in G-d’s world, and to act accordingly, this is the role of Israel as a nation and for each of us as individuals. For Israel this reality ultimately can only be realized within the borders of the land of Israel. Those who strive for it will enter. Those who shrink from it will not.
Matot-Masei (Numbers 30:2-36:13)
Parashat Matot-Masei is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 28, 5773/July 6, 2013
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The five daughters of Tzelaphchad, Machlah, Noa, Hogla, Milcah and Tirzah remain to this day shining examples of righteous Jews whose love of the land of Israel is irrepressible and unstoppable. Their spiritual descendents today, the righteous daughters of Israel who establish their faithful homes in Judea and Samaria are following in their virtuous footsteps.
Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1)
Parashat Pinchas is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 21, 5773/June 29, 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:
Pillars of Cloud and Fire, But I’m Just a Natural Man
The Indescribable Joy of Mourning for the Temple and the Jewish Problem
It has begun. The Seventeenth of Tammuz has launched the annual cycle of mourning over the loss of the Holy Temple. But where is it taking us? With even more than their usual sang froid, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman present a concise and analytic review of the Three Weeks of mourning, in which they bemoan the bemoaning. Make no mistake about it: This program focuses on one verse, (Zech. 8:19) “This is what the Hashem Al-mighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Love truth and peace” … and asks, OK, now what? How will that verse be fulfilled? Our hosts also explain why this week’s Torah portion of parashat Pinchas is the perfect companion to this time of year. The message is resoundingly positive and you won’t want to miss it!
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. There is nothing new about the double-speak and double standards, lies and deceptions that Bilaam intended to utter in an attempt to curse, defame and delegitimize Israel. The same tactics are being employed today for the same reasons: Hatred toward the G-d of Israel.
Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 14, 5773/June 22, 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:
Bilaam, Never Shake Thy Gory Locks at Me!
Parashat Balak: I Love the Jews, It’s the Zionists I Can’t Stand
It’s time for the Torah reading of parashat Balak, and that means that Temple Talk hosts Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman are holding a crash course in Antisemitism 101. The classic pattern set into motion by Bilaam, special advisor to Pharoah, has become a perpetual historic template which continues to this very day. Bilaam and Balak would have been proud permanent members of the UN Security Council… or they could be disguising themselves as any one of today’s world leaders. What fuels their venomous diatribe against Israel? Tune into this week’s edition of Temple Talk to find out.
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