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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:
Be a Ba’al Teshuva of Love, and Don’t Tear Up Your Tracks!
The Yom Kippur Experience: It’ll Be Just Like Starting Over
The first edition of Temple Talk for the new year of 5774 finds our hosts in the midst of the Tishrei encounter, in deep preparation for Yom Kippur, the awesome and beloved Day of Atonement. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman present an amazing tour de force on the fine art and science of repentance. This show is must for Yom Kippur understanding! What does repentance really mean, and what is its unique power? What is the promise G-d made regarding atonement on this day? Tune into this week’s special Temple Talk repentance workshop. Plus: unveiling a special Holy Temple experience co-hosted by the Temple Institute and Manhigut Yehudit, this Sukkot!
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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:
Rosh HaShana: Will the Real King Please Stand Up?
Face-Off of Rosh HaShana: The Destitute King vs. The Supreme King
Rosh HaShana, Adam’s awesome birthday is here, ushering in the New Year. In this Rosh HaShana Temple Talk special, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman reflect on the legacy of Adam HaRishon, the first man, whose descendants – great and small, individuals and nations – are examined on this Day of Judgment. Tune into the last Temple Talk for 5773 as our hosts discover that it’s the breath of Adam that counts… and that breath, blasting from our souls through the narrow opening of the shofar, can make all the difference in the world. Temple Talk will back next year (next week, that is) in 5774… and may it be a year of great blessing for Israel and all humanity… may this be the year of the rebuilding of the Holy Temple!
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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 Nitzavim Revisited: Standing Firm in a World Gone Mad
Plain Talk About the Eternal, Non-Negotiable Covenant Between G-d and Israel
This week’s double Torah reading of Nitzavim-Vayelech opens with Moshe’s renewal of G-d’s covenant with Israel. In these words spoken on the last day of his life, Moshe Rabbeinu emphasizes that every future generation of Israel is included in this relationship: “Not with you alone do I seal this covenant…but with who is here, standing with us today…and with whoever is not here with us today.”
What is the nature of this unique, non-negotiable covenant? Can’t I get off the train? Sorry, nothing doing… Israel is in this deal forever. It’s part of our DNA; our connection with G-d, so easily misunderstood, is the most basic fact of who we are. But a covenant goes two ways: Israel is forever obligated to represent G-d in this world, and G-d, in turn, guarantees the eternity of the Jewish people. Take a break from the runaway madness of today’s headlines and tune into this week’s penultimate Temple Talk of the year 5773, as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman expound upon the promises of repentance and redemption, and speculate on the mysteries of Jewish survival, Jewish destiny… and the secret of Jewish neurosis. Cancel that appointment with your analyst: all you need to be normal is to study parshat Netzavim!
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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:
Joy, Goodness of Heart and an Abundance of Everything
Bringing First Fruits to the Holy Temple: The Joy of Life in the Land of Israel
This week’s Torah portion of Ki Tavo opens with the ultimate expression of true joy: the bringing of first fruits by every Israelite to the Holy Temple. This Torah-mandated, Temple-era ritual – soon to be renewed with the rebuilding of the Holy Temple – is the consummate experience of gratitude and humility, as well as the keenest manifestation of the sheer joy that is a result of living in the Land of Israel. But isn’t strange that this Torah portion, which begins with a portrayal of ultimate joy, also contains the ominous, portent-filled ‘curses?’ That dichotomy seems to be the perfect description of our world. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman don’t think it’s strange at all, as they plumb the depths of what it really means to serve G-d “with joy, goodness of heart and from an abundance of everything” – and find that there is one common root to everything, on this week’s moving 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:
A Mantra for Elul: Hashem is the Fortress of My Life
Shofar-Blasts and Psalms: The Fine Art of Elul
Elul is here, and teshuva (repentance) is in the air. The Temple Mount has re-opened, the King is in His field, and so are Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman as they continue to visit the Temple Mount in search of the Divine Presence. This week’s Temple Talk focuses with exquisite precision on the Holy Temple, at once the ‘refuge,’ the ‘fortress’ and the ‘sanctuary’ alluded to in Psalm 27, which is customarily recited daily during this month of Elul. This week’s edition of Temple Talk includes an in-depth analysis of King David’s Psalm 27, which crescendos with a message of spiritual hope and empowerment for all sincere spiritual seekers. An unforgettable lesson, not to be missed!
Temple Institute Links:
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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 Shoftim: The Pursuit of Righteousness and Justice
Rosh Chodesh Elul and the Temple Mount: Locked Out of My Beloved’s House!
The confluence this week of the beginning of the month of Elul and the reading of Parashat Shoftim brings us a double serving of the need for justice, righteousness and repentance. The King is in the field; the field is the Temple Mount, and the Holy Temple is the place that, when “a matter of judgement is hidden from you”…then, “you shall rise up and ascend to the place that Hashem shall choose.” For the Beit HaMikdash is the seat of justice and righteousness. What happens when Elul, the special time of emphasis for these themes, rolls around, and we are still locked out of the Temple Mount? Join Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman this week on Temple Talk as they welcome the new month of Elul with brave new insights into this week’s Torah portion, plus brave hope for Israel’s challenges in the coming year.
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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 Voice of Your Brother’s Blood Cries Out to Me
Hashem, Your G-d is Testing You, to Know Whether You Love Hashem…
In these waning end days of the month of the Consoling Father, consolation is indeed in order, and much needed, as the citizens of the State of Israel grapple with the government’s mind-boggling decision to free 104 convicted murderers and torturers of Jewish men, women, children, and unborn children, as a “pre-condition” to the next round of suicidal, self-destructive “peace talks.” This week’s edition of Temple Talk finds Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman in somber reflection, brutal analysis and heartfelt prayer, plugging everything in to this week’s Torah reading of parashat Re’eh. Ultimately our fate is not determined in Washington – it is to be determined here, in the Land of Israel, as G-d tests His people, whom He calls in this very week’s Torah portion His “children” and His “treasure,” urging them through these events to return to Him and to set the course of their own destiny back on track.
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