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Temple Institute Shows
Sara imenu – our matriarch Sara – was a woman of unparalleled beauty and spiritual strength, whose power of prophecy was greater, our sages teach us, than that of her husband Avraham. Yet, according to Midrash, she was ultimately felled by an enemy common to us all: the satan who feeds on our own fears and casts stumbling blocks along our way.
Chayei Sara (Genesis 23:1-25:18)
Parashat Chayei Sara is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 25, 5773/November10, 2012
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Why was Avraham avinu interceding on behalf of the wicked people of the decadent city of Sodom? Was he your typical bleeding-heart liberal who can’t distinguish between right and wrong? On the contrary, Avraham was showing his faith to the one true G-d and to the role that G-d granted him as guarantor of humanity.
Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24)
Parashat Vayera is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 18, 5773/November 3, 2012
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Bat Melech – with Rena Richman
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday.
Next Show: To Be Announced
Rachav welcomed and conspired with the Israelite spies who were sent by Yehoshua to discover and report on the strengths and weaknesses of the city of Yericho. But why did they choose her residence to serve as the locale of their first foray into the land of Israel? Why did Rachav willingly offer her cooperation in the demise of her own people? This teaching was first shared and recorded in Texas, June 2012.
Dedication: Dedicated to Marcia Averbuck, with prayers for a speedy and complete recovery!
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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:
Understanding Abraham’s Tests: When G-d Hides His Face
Abraham, Lot, and the Liberals of Sodom
In this week’s edition of Temple Talk, our hosts engage in a veritable tour de force of parashat Vayera, following Abraham’s meteoric rise to prominence, his intervention on behalf of Sodom, and ultimately, his supreme test of faith, the binding of Isaac. What is the secret of Abraham’s unshakable faith, and his deep, firsthand knowledge of G-d?
As Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman prepare to depart for the Temple Institute’s 25 anniversary celebrations, Temple Talk will not be presented on Tues., Nov. 6th. With G-d’s help, the next edition of Temple Talk will be broadcast from Dallas, TX, on Tues., Nov. 13th. Afterwards there will be a break and the next edition of Temple Talk will be on Tues, Dec. 4th, with G-d’s help.
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Avraham avinu traveled far into his own being in order to discover the Source and Supreme Guide of all creation, but the relationship he forged with G-d and the role he assumed for himself as citizen of G-d’s domain was firmly based in this world and firmly founded on the principle of personal responsibility.
Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
Parashat Lech Lecha is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 11, 5773/October 27, 2012
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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:
Abraham’s Inward Journey: Proving the Existence of G-d
Enter Abraham, Citizen of the World and Father of All Spiritual Seekers
One week into the elusive month of Mar Cheshvan already finds us celebrating two “minor” events with major implications: The first is the 837th anniversary of the famed sage Maimonides’ ascent to the Temple Mount in the face of grave danger to pray there, on the 6th of Cheshvan 1165. The second is the changing of our daily prayers into “winter mode” here in the Land of Israel, which takes place on 7 Cheshvan, when we begin to ask G-d for rain. In this week’s edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman explore these events and their modern-day implications, even as this week’s Torah reading of parashat Lech Lecha introduces the daring iconoclast Avram, soon to become Avraham, onto the scene of world history. He found out that all the truth were lies, and went on to discover that there is really only One G-d. Mankind would never be the same again.
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The first lesson we are taught by Torah concerning the ten generation epoch spanning from Adam to Noach is that man’s behavior toward his fellow man has a direct and powerful effect on the natural world around him. Proper human conduct is a prerequisite for any effective environmental activism to succeed in preserving the magnificent ecosystem that G-d has blessed us with. A civilization that loses its moral compass will come crashing down, and take the natural world with it. A cautionary tale.
Bereshit/Noach (Genesis 1:1-11:32)
Parashat Noach is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 4, 5773/October 20, 2012
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