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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:
The Book of Numbers by the Numbers
Masei: Preparing to Enter the Land: East of the Jordan, West of the Rock of Gibraltar
Have you ever lost a quarter down the gutter? You can see it down there but it’s just beyond your reach. Easy come, easy go. But if it was your wife’s golden earring, or, G-d forbid, her wedding band, you would be beside yourself. Imagine how the High Priest felt when he realized that one of the seventy two golden bells which lined the hem of his techelet blue tunic just dropped off and fell into the City of David sewer system. Did he receive a stern reprimand from his wife? Did he engage in somber soul searching? We can never know for sure, but one thing is for certain: Losers weepers, finders keepers. The recently discovered golden bell, which might have once belonged to a 1st century CE High Priest, is now ours for the keeping! Is this historic find a tap on the shoulder from the Almighty? Here in the middle of the three weeks of mourning for the loss of the Holy Temple, is G-d using this bell to wake us up from our two thousand year slumber? Is it time to rebuild the Holy Temple?
The book of Numbers draws to a close, and with it our forty two desert sojourns. Are we ready to enter the land? Are we ready to transpose the Torah society of the wilderness to the soil of the land of Israel? This is the purpose of Torah and the fulfillment of Israel’s mission in the world.
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42 journeys through the wilderness of life, and a box of scented letters: a love story.
Masei (Numbers 33:1-36:13)
Parashat Masei is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 28, 5771/July 30, 2011
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Bat Melech – with Rena Richman
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday.
Next Show: Women of the Desert, Part 2
The women of the desert and the feminine spiritual energy, strength and determination that they were able to tap into and channel enabled them to shepherd the entire generation out of the holocaust of Egypt, throughout the forty years of the wilderness experience, and ultimately into the land of Israel.
This lesson was originally recorded in Dallas, Texas, and is being presented on UTN in four parts.
Dedication: This show is dedicated to all the Noahides we met in Dallas.
TODA RABA / Thank You all so much!
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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:
Souls Searching Truth in America
Beginning the 3 Weeks: Mourning Day & Night: Time to Pick Ourselves Up Off the Floor & Build
We once again enter the three weeks of contemplative introspection concerning the Holy Temple which was destroyed 1941 years ago. Are we any closer to building the Holy Temple today than we were a year ago? Are the three weeks of “mourning” helping to ready us for restoring the Divine service or has it become a cathartic device to “let us off the hook?” The prophet Ezekiel enigmatically describes the idolatrous cult of Tammuz, the eponymous namesake of our current month of mourning. Why did our sages adopt the name Tammuz ? What do we learn from the Rambam’s and Rashi’s understandings of the Tammuz blasphemy? Is our current festival of mourning and fasting leading us somewhere or are we stuck fast? Rabbi Richman has just returned from America humbled and gladdened by the courageous souls he met along spiritual byways and highways. All roads lead to the Holy Temple. Do we dare take the steps we need to take?
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“A tongue can accuse or carry bad news.” Hank Williams sure said a mouthful with those lines. In truth, it was lashon hara – an evil tongue – which put Israel in exile and which kept Israel in the wilderness forty years. But on the flip side, our words, our vows, our oaths and our pledges, if uttered and honored with the proper respect and trust in HaShem, can lead us back to the promised land of Israel.
Matot (Numbers 30:2-32:42)
Parashat Matot is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 21, 5771/July 23, 2011
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Next week on Light to the Nations:
The Temple Offerings, Part VI
The Tammuz Special was originally broadcast on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5768, (the beginning of the new month of Tammuz, one year ago – 2008). Rabbi Richman’s insights remain as valuable and relevant today as they were two years ago:
From the days of the spies, the month of Tammuz has been one of harsh judgement for Israel. But Tammuz is not fated to be so for ever. By speaking well of the land of Israel and increasing our appreciation and intensifying our love for the land – right now – in the month of Tammuz, we can begin to turn Tammuz from a bitter month to a sweet month.
Dedication: Dedicated to Darla Deckard.
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The Levitical orchestra didn’t simply provide pleasant background accompaniment for the Temple offerings. The music was an integral spiritual aspect of the service of the offerings, designed to awaken within the worshipper true feelings of repentance. Second in a series.
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