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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:
Nadav & Avihu: Keeping it Kosher and Making the Most of This World
The Red Heifer and Political Correctness: It Takes Modesty to Recognize Our Limitations
This week’s Torah portion begins with the words “And it was on the eighth day…” And this day was none other than Rosh Chodesh Nisan, the first day of the month of Nisan, soon to be upon us. What is so special about this day, that led our sages to declare that it was “decorated with ten crowns?” What is the connection between the dedication of the Tabernacle and the creation of the world?
Purim is past and Passover is just around the corner. This Shabbat, “parshat Para,” is the third “Special Shabbat” in the sequence that leads up to Passover and is dedicated to the Red Heifer. Temple Talk focuses on this mysterious precept and explores the essence of purity in an impure 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:
The Awful Truth: The Itamar Massacre & What It Means For Us All
YOU: Are You a Part of Amalek, Or a Part of Humanity? A Simple Yes Or No Answer Will Suffice
Once again, as it was just three years ago when 8 yeshiva boys were murdered over their holy texts, the month of Adar is accompanied by tragedy in Israel. Just days before the joyous festival of Purim, an unspeakable atrocity is committed in the beautiful, holy community of Itamar. How do our eyes register these horrible images? How do our minds explain such evil? What words can we offer to comfort the children who have survived, and ourselves as well? And how do we do Purim?
In this gripping episode of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman discuss the murder of the Fogels and the world’s reaction. A difficult show to listen to… but a show that you cannot afford to miss.
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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:
Why Does the Heart of the Torah Begin with a Still Small Voice?
Purim and the Book of Vayikra: Little Children, Old Prejudices, and Gross Misunderstandings
The joy of Adar abounds as Temple Talk hosts Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman prepare for the awesome day of Purim which is quickly approaching. But what is true joy? Is Purim a time for revelry and ribaldry? Or is there something deeper going on? Our hosts consider the matter and decide that Purim is the most misunderstood holiday on the calendar. We begin reading the book of Leviticus this week, which our hosts call the “Book of G-d’s Rights.” They find that like vanilla and Purim, Leviticus is lonely… misunderstood, isolated and not fully appreciated for what it really is. It’s secret is communicated very quietly in its first three words: “And He called… “
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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: Bringing it All Back Home
The Tabernacle and the Completion of Creation: Why Wait Any Longer for the World to Begin?
This week we read Parashat Pekudei (literally, “reckonings”) and we shall be ushering in the second month of Adar. It’s also the first of the four special Torah readings, parashat “Shekalim.” Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman connect the dots and examine the Torah portion of Pekudei, only to find to that it contains nothing new… but at the same time, it’s brand new! It’s that ‘ol feeling of deja vu – we’ve read all this before. And we’ve built a house for the Creator before! It’s not rocket science! We did it once, we did it twice – we can do it again.
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:
A Homeopathic Approach to Idolatry
Today’s Modern Day Temple Artisans: Following in the Footsteps of Betzalel
In this week’s amazing edition of Temple Talk, it’s the father and son reunion, as Tzvi Richman returns to record a segment of our show and shares his unique wisdom and insights. What did Moses have in mind when he made the Children of Israel drink the pulverized gold of the golden calf? Parashat Vayakhel, the penultimate portion of the Book of Exodus, brings us closer to the epicenter of the Torah, on several levels. We’ve got the plan and it couldn’t be made any clearer than it gets in the first verses of this parasha… Shabbat and the Tabernacle. That’s the whole earth plan to making life count… but yet, post-modern pundits point accusing fingers and shout, “There’s no Betzalel today! How could we think of creating Temple vessels?” Well, this just in: There are amongst us, even today, inspired individuals who meet the Torah’s requirements for being a Betzalel… “a wise heart” and “a generous heart.”
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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 Copper Laver and the Righteous Women of Israel
From the Golden Calf to the Golden Lamp: Making a Choice to Bring Light Into This World
Parashat Ki Tisa leads us through the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs of Bnei Yisrael as the sublime work on the Holy Tabernacle is interrupted by the unbridled licentiousness of the golden calf. Moshe rabbenu – Moses our master – masterfully navigates a path fraught with cosmic cataclysmic pitfalls, as he castigates Israel and seeks their forgiveness from G-d. Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven describe Moshe’s unique leadership qualities, and also the well-intentioned but colossal folly of Israel as they pursued the ill-fated “shortcut” of the golden calf.
Today the Temple Institute has embarked upon a project in which gold is used not,
G-d forbid, as a blasphemous distraction, but, on the contrary, as a means of drawing our hearts to the beauty and light of our Father in Heaven. We are referring to the Nivreshet – the Golden lamp of Queen Helena.
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:
Golden Calf & the Holy Temple: Self-Centered or G-d Centered?
An Alternative Reading of the Torah’s Temple Portions: What If It All Means Something?
For 2000 years of exile the idea of really rebuilding the Holy Temple was something that was over the rainbow, inaccessible, “impossible” to achieve. So the whole topic of the Holy Temple became an allegory for other things. Now that Israel has returned to her land and the concept of rebuilding the Holy Temple is not only staggeringly achievable but also historically inevitable, it’s time to retire the allegories and re-understand the commandment to build the Holy Temple on its literal level. The additional month of Adar with which we are blessed this year is not for marking time, but for making the most out of the gift of time. Getting serious about the Holy Temple is one way to start.
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