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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:
The Month of Elul: Out Here in the Field
Taking Torah into the Land, Plugging it in, Turning it On & Lighting Up Our World
The judicial system, the police force, the executive and the military are all featured in this week’s Torah reading of Shoftim, which describes how each of these facets of society are connected one to the other, how all of them are expressions of G-d’s will for the nation of Israel, and how each of them are intrinsically connected to the Holy Temple, the heart and the soul of the nation.
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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:
Preparing to Enter the Land of Israel: It’s a Vision Thing
Moses makes certain Israel possesses the keys she will need to make G-d’s plan a reality!
Open your eyes: Every one of our five sense must rise to the occasion as we prepare to enter the land of Israel and fulfill our purpose for being here! Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven discuss this week’s Torah reading of Re’eh. Moshe addressed the generation that was entering the land then, but his message of total commitment to the land of Israel and to the place that G-d shall choose for His Holy Presence – the Shechina – to dwell, applies to our generation more than ever.
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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:
Eikev: No Place Like Israel
The 9th to the 15th and the Changing Seasons: Making Our Way to Rosh HaShana
Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven talk about the passage of time and the changing seasons as the heartbreak of the 9th of Av is superseded by the renewed love of the 15th of Av; death in the desert is superseded by life in the holy land of Israel; and the wood offering takes its yearly pause, so that no rotten wood will be found in the Holy Temple.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:
A Time to Weep, a Time to Build
The State of Israel, the Redemption, and the Holy Temple: Rise
and Shine, Jewish People!
On Tisha B’Av, the day of mourning and national tragedy, Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven ascended the holy Temple Mount together with hundreds of Jews of all ages and backgrounds, searching for understanding on this spiritually-powerful day. We all know that the prophets of Israel assure us this day of sadness will be transformed into a day of rejoicing. But we wonder: How? When? Today, on top of Mount Moriah, in the very place that the Holy Temple was sacked and destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, we discovered the answer: It is the Jewish people themselves who will make this prophecy come true. It is the nation of Israel who will decide that they have had their fill of mourning, and are ready to rebuild. Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak recorded this special edition of Temple Talk just after descending from the mountain, and they share their unforgettable experiences and impressions from this historic and unprecedented Tisha B’Av visit to the most sacred site in the world.
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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:
Menachem Av: Father Knows Best & the Best is Yet to Be
Stop Your Sobbing Israel, Pick Yourself Up Off the Floor, The Still Small Voice Says Build!
It is the month of Av and the perennial housing shortage in Israel is once again making waves as protesters are taking to the streets. But this year’s righteously indignant ringleaders are the very same people representing the very same organizations that exactly six years ago orchestrated and applauded the forced homelessness of ten thousand Jewish souls from Gush Katif. Yes, these are the same folks that fight to destroy every Jewish house, kindergarten, synagogue or gazebo that a Jew, any Jew, dares to build in Judea and Samaria. Yes, these are the very same self-indulgent cadres that wage war against Jewish neighborhoods in the heart of Jerusalem. And yes, these are the very same hire political guns who DO NOT WANT TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR HASHEM! These would-be architects of a G-dless world possess a mixed-multitude of college degrees, but anyone who has taken Housing 101 knows that the root and the cause of all our housing ailments is in the fact that we still have not solved our Creator’s housing problem. The prophet Chaggai said it best: “Is it a proper time for you yourselves to sit in your ceiled houses, when this house is in ruins?” Tough words of rebuke, but uttered with love in our hearts!
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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 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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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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