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Going through all these things twice: The generation of the desert, like Adam, the first man, failed to appreciate the gifts that G-d gives us. Adam blamed the woman G-d gave him for his own eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and the Israelites in the desert complained about the spiritually refined nourishment known as manna, with which G-d kept them fed for forty years. Is it any wonder that the evil-tongued snake made an appearance in both cases, here being used by G-d as an instrument to exact from Israel a price for their flagrant disregard?
Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)
Parashat Chukat is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 30, 5771/July 2, 2011
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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:
Of G-d, the king and the people: Who makes the rules?
The Rebellion of Korach: Directed at Moshe and Aharon, but aimed at toppling G-d and Torah
Yitzchak Reuven and Tzvi Richman square off over Korach and his rebellion: Were his intentions true? Was he an anarchist at heart? Did his rebellion differ from the children of Israel’s plea to Shmuel centuries later to appoint over them a king? In the meantime, Rabbi Richman is off to America where he will be conducting his three week speaking engagement tour.
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What is the meaning of the Torah’s reference to the mysterious “covenant of salt?” (Numbers 17:19) Salt can be lifeless and deadly. It can also preserve, enhance and provide nourishment. Each one of us has within us an aspect of salt, the potential for lifelessness and the potential to enhance and increase life, thereby forging our own “covenant of salt” with G-d.
Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)
Parashat Korach is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 23, 5771/June 25, 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 V
Israel has never lost sight of our obligation to renew the Divine service at the nearest possible opportunity, and throughout the millennia a number of Israel’s greatest sages have striven to create conditions in which Temple offerings could be made. Today a growing number of scholars and spiritual leaders are calling for the immediate renewal of the offerings, beginning with the Korban Pesach – the Passover offering.
Dedication: Dedicated to Razia & Tzvi Richman: Mazal tov on the birth of a son!
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Heaven – or at least, the Garden of Eden, in its earthly embodiment in the land of Israel – awaits the generation of the desert. All they need to do is pack their gear and step inside. From whence the spiritual negativity that drove them from “heaven’s” door even as they were perched to enter? Their great failing remains for our generation to overcome and to correct. G-d, despite His great anger at their disregard for the land, blesses them with the commandments concerning the wine libations and the taking of challah, both of which are contingent on being in the land of Israel. In this manner
G-d both comforts them that their children will someday enter the land, and instructs them once in the land of Israel, their Divine mission will be the rectification of the failing of Adam, the first man.
Shelach (Numbers 13:1-15:41)
Parashat Shelach is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 16, 5771/June 18, 2011
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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 Twelve Spies: Whose Idea Was It, Anyway?
Torah’s Shortest Book: A Two Verse Reminder of The Way it Should Have Been
Everything was set and ready to go… and then – one calamity after another. That’s how it is when things disintegrate, and things just seem to go from bad to worse in this week’s Torah reading of Shlach, as we witness the twelve man mission of distinguished gentlemen from the tribes of Israel, who, with great fanfare and an official sendoff managed to enter the land of Israel, exit the land of Israel, and then just get everything all wrong. All that is, except from Yehoshua and Calev, who try in vain to rally the nation and avert the meltdown. Tzvi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven try to make sense of this the most devastating misadventure in the annals of Jewish history, and apply its lessons to today’s ongoing struggle to weed out doubt and reclaim the land.
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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:
6th of Sivan: From the Garden of Eden to the Holy Temple
Chag Shavuot: First Fruits & Matan Torah: Bringing it All Back Home
With special guest host Tzvi Richman, Yitzchak Reuven discusses the holiday that concludes the counting of the Omer: Shavuot. Why are two loaves of bread the central offering of Shavuot, and why is the bread from wheat and not barley? And what makes this offering different from all other offerings? What do the first fruits have to do with receiving Torah at Sinai? And what does Adam, the first man, have to do with Shavuot? Answers inside!
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