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Temple Talk
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Jonathan Pollard vs. Marwan Barghouti: Find the Cost of Freedom
Metzora, Corrupt Politicians & Eretz Yisrael: Removing the Blight in Our House
This week, as Israel ushers in the glorious month of Nisan, time of rebirth and redemption, we will be reading Parashat Metzora, with its mysterious affliction of homes. The Torah reading intersects with rumors and rumbles reflecting on the shambles of the “peace” negotiations, Israel’s impending release of terrorists and its obscene connection to the possibility of America’s release of Jonathan Pollard, and the conviction of a former Prime Minister on charges of corruption. Leave it to the inimitable Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman to connect all these things and reveal how hand of the G-d of Israel can clearly be seen, guiding His people through time and history, on their journey home to the Land of Israel, and to the ultimate and final redemption… the theme of this month of redemption. A no-holds-barred edition of Temple Talk, not for the squeamish!
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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:
Anniversaries, Homecomings and The Sanctification of G-d’s Name
The Secret of Purity: Get Out of the Exile and Come Home to Israel!
Celebrating our relationship with G-d, finishing the tabernacle and looking forward to the Holy Temple, and coming home to the Land of Israel are the interwoven themes in this week’s surprising edition of Temple Talk. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman also provide an exclusive sneak-peak description of this year’s Fifth Annual International Temple Mount Awareness Day special broadcast, coming up on Sunday March 30th.
Back in 1977, good ole Andy Griffith appeared in a television commercial for Nabisco’s Ritz Crackers and coined the phrase “everything tastes great when it sits on a Ritz.” Since then, the expression “to sit on the Ritz” has come to mean anything excellent — ritzy. As in swanky, elegant, posh. As in, perhaps, the quality of Jewish life in the lands of their exile? Now you can have your bacon flavor and eat it, too: Ritz has a new cracker with artificial bacon flavor that is certified kosher. Why is that a big deal, or even newsworthy? Is it a reason for Rabbi Richman to go ballistic and once again demonstrate total political incorrectness? Imitation bacon flavor with rabbinical supervision; is this a sign of the success of American Jewry; that we’ve made it and are “here to stay?” Not according to G-d’s word to the prophet Ezekiel, who states that… um… actually, the worst desecration of His holy name is the simple fact that the Jewish people remain in the lands of their exile. And the greatest sanctification of His name will only happen when the Jewish people come home to the Land of Israel. So how are we to understand that the same organization which certifies imitation bacon-flavor crackers, roundly criticizes Israeli rabbis for standing up to John Kerry’s fire sale of the Land of Israel?
Am I hearing you right? If you dare, listen to this week’s Temple Talk, and decide for yourself.
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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:
Where Nadav & Avihu Went Wrong: Making a Moment Last Forever
Parashat Shmini & the Challenge of the Human Condition: Keep Kosher & Get High!
This week’s Torah portion of parashat Shmini features the tragic death of the High Priest Aaron’s sons Nadav and Avihu, struck down by Heavenly wrath. What sin exacted such harsh punishment? From the Torah’s account, it seems clear: They brought a “strange,” unauthorized fire. But it’s also clear that they were looking to honor the Creator and deeply desired to keep the excitement of the moment of the Tabernacle’s inauguration alive. These two great, righteous men were not satisfied with the old fare; “same old, same old” just wouldn’t do it for them. But then again, none of us should ever be satisfied with routine. Keeping things fresh and new is the name of the game, but how to that and yet remain within the lines is the subject of this week’s edition of Temple Talk. Newness and the sense of awe and wonder at the unexplained are also an aspect of the special Torah reading this Shabbat, the Numbers chapter 19 ordinance of the Red Heifer. Join us for an edition of Temple Talk dedicated to the battle against complacency!
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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 Plain Truth on Torah, Vegetarianism, & the Temple Offerings
In Defense of the Korbonot: The Much Maligned Service of the Holy Temple
Purim is coming, the holiday of turnabout and hidden Divine providence. The true essence of this highly beloved festival seems to hidden, just as the name of G-d is hidden from the scroll of Esther. In this week’s edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman explore another another hidden aspect of Purim, which lies at the very heart of the scroll of Esther: the struggle for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. Foreign domination and subterfuge, internal wrangling, complicity and conspiracy of silence… we are fighting the very same battle for the Holy Temple today. It all goes hand in hand with the Torah portions of the book of Vayikra, as the profound and timeless truth of the Temple offerings peeks out at us from behind the latticework, like the hidden presence of G-d in the Purim story. This confluence between the highly misunderstood subject of the korbonot and the inner truth of the Purim story are fused together in this week’s unique edition of Temple Talk.
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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:
Beam Me Up, Abdullah: The Trekkie’s Guide to the Temple Mount
Science Fiction, Temple Mount, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Connect the Dots
As Israel begins the third book of the Torah, Vayikra (Leviticus), this week’s edition of Temple Talk takes place in parallel universes… or should we say in multiple galaxies? The book of Vayikra focuses completely on the Divine service in the Holy Temple. That service is designed to cause the light of the Shechina, the Divine Presence, to shine forth from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to all the world. But in the meantime, it has become abundantly clear that Abdullah, King of Jordan is controlling the Temple Mount like a corrupt fiefdom. In recent episodes of Temple Talk we have discussed Jordan’s illegal stranglehold on the Temple Mount, and this week’s Temple Talk provides a crash course in everything you need to know about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Or at least the most important things, such as King Abdullah’s love of the Star Trek franchise, an obsession so total that he actually appears in an episode! A two-bit cameo actor with no lines, this beduin tribesman is insecurely ruling over a Palestinian majority. Ironically, while the King may be living out his sci-fi fantasies, the building of the Holy Temple and resumption of the Divine service is not science fiction, but the word of the G-d of heaven and earth. Join us for the most explosive Temple Talk ever, as we boldly go where no man has gone before!
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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 Pekudei: A Lesson in the Accountability of Our Leaders
Israel’s Peace Accords with Jordan: With Liberty & Justice for All (Except Jews)
In Parashat Pekudei, with its detailed reckonings of the final details of the tabernacle’s construction, the Torah testifies to a new reality which will be the focus of Jewish purpose and consciousness from this point onward. But as our hosts report this week, that reality has been replaced by an alternative reality – one based on lies, distortion and denial. This Shabbat is also Shabbat Shekalim, one of the four special Torah readings which precede the festival of Passover. Shabbat Shekalim is all about the preparations which the Jewish people begin during the month of Adar for the upcoming Passover pilgrimage to the Holy Temple. But in the twisted, mirror-image world of the Temple Mount today, Jewish people are treated as criminals and prevented from uttering a single word of prayer… as witnessed this past week by two great friends of Israel, Congressmen Bill Johnson (R OH) and Congressman David McKinley (R WV). Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman had the honor of guiding these gentlemen on a fact-finding tour of the Temple Mount, where the American lawmakers, “guilty by association,” were “treated like Jews” and were able to witness firsthand the Waqf’s criminal persecution of Jewish worshipers. Who is to blame for this sordid state of affairs? The Jordanian-backed Waqf, a hostile, illegal group within the sovereign State of Israel? The Israel Police? Our own Prime Minister? These questions and more are scheduled to be clarified in a special, historic Knesset meeting which will discuss the issue of official Israeli sovereignty on the holy Mount. Hear all about these crucial developments on this week’s compelling edition of Temple Talk.
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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:
Vayakhel: Shabbat, Tabernacle & Jewish vs. Israeli Culture War
Pink Ladies, Elijah the Prophet & the Bankrupt American Orthodox Establishment
As the nation of Israel winds down the Book of Exodus with this week’s penultimate Torah portion of Vayahkel, focusing on the eternal commandments of Sabbath observance and building a home for the Creator, an extremely agitated and impassioned Rabbi Richman bemoans the spiritual bankruptcy of those Jewish leaders who make their homes outside the Land of Israel and yet criticize the rabbis of the Land of Israel who ardently defend our people’s rights to our own land. Echoes of Elijah’s face-off with the false prophets of the Baal; Mordechai’s face-off with the Persian Jewish establishment who wined and dined at Acheshverosh’s glatt kosher pagan banquet… it’s all here in this week’s alarming, disquieting edition of Temple Talk. An all time classic… but not for the faint-hearted.
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