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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:
Violence in the Service of Good
Pinchas to the Rescue: Putting Out the Fire Set by the Heathen Prophet Bilaam
The mild and humble grandson of Aharon had to think and act fast to stay the plague devouring Israel. His exceptional act of moral courage raised many eyebrows and even more questions, then and now. Yitzchak Reuven and Tzvi Richman carefully analyze Pinchas, the legacy he was born into and the legacy he helped to create, and try to understand why G-d Himself dispelled all the doubts about Pinchas, by awarding him His “Covenant of Peace.”
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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:
Bilaam: Prophet for Hire
Delegitimizing Israel via Sweet Words of Blessing, Human Rights & the Politically Correct
Using every angle under the sun, Balak and the heathen mercenary prophet Bilaam pulled out all the stops trying to curse the nation of Israel. Seeing that they couldn’t militarily overcome Israel this was their desperate attempt to keep Israel from possessing the land G-d chose for her. Sound familiar? As president Barack H. Obama said, the “international community [has] expectations [that] have gone unmet.” No doubt Balak was thinking the same thing when he called in the world’s top-gun PR spin-master, G-d googling DJ Bilaam to try to find the right combination of words to crack the G-d Israel connection.
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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:
Learning to Live With G-d in This World
A Torah Primer on the Laws of War and Peace: Do They Apply Today?
What do the red heifer, Miriam’s well, the rock that Moses struck two times with his staff, the disgruntled Israelites, Israel’s request from the nation of Edom and her subsequent wars all have in common? Besides all appearing in this week’s Torah reading of Chukat, they all provide insight into how G-d runs our natural world with an overlay and influx of His beneficence. That is, all reality bends to G-d’s will. And, O yes, the color red is woven throughout the entire portion. At least that’s what Yitzchak Reuven and guest host Tzvi Richman will try their best to convince the listeners.
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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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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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Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Parashat Naso: Fidelity & the Land of Israel
Jerusalem Day 2011: More Now Than Ever the Challenge of Our Generation
The world wants to wrest Jerusalem from the hands and the heart of the nation of Israel, but we will never let that happen. Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven reflect upon the day, forty four years ago, in which the prophetic clock began ticking anew as G-d and Israel fulfilled their long before planned rendezvous and met and embraced once again in the united city of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
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