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The Creator has permitted you to use all of His advice for your physical well-being and for all the He has entrusted to you to do in this world in known ways and specific matters, namely, all the mitzvoth — those called for by the intellect, and those that are permitted.

He said to you, “Do not be fooled by all the things I have put into your hands and empowered you to make use of in this world. For they will add nothing to you essential being, nor will they distract from it; they will bring you neither delight nor suffering. They are only things that incidentally affect your body, external or internally. They are not essentials for you; their relation to you is like that of the placenta to the baby or the eggshell to the chick.

Dedicated to John Mitchell

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Parashat Beha’alotcha, Palestinian Mythology and Nazi Flags

Muhammad Al Dura & Paul McCartney Back From the Grave! Proof of Life After Death

As we continue to reflect upon the theme of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai which dominates this month of Sivan, the Land of Israel seems beset by enemies who gather at our very door. We are also confronted by the enemies within, who seek to uproot Israel’s connection to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the entire Land. But there is a plan for Israel’s survival and indeed, for Israel’s radiant triumph, and much of that plan is foreshadowed in this week’s Torah portion of Beha’alotcha. As Israel travels through the desert towards the Promised Land, it is up to our generation to fix the mistakes of the Generation of the Desert, and interpret the Divine signals for moving forward towards destiny. Tune in to this week’s edition of Temple Talk as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman examine events in the Land of Israel and the world in the light of this week’s Torah portion.

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The assistants and attendants are the soul’s moods and qualities, such as happiness and anxiety, joy and sorrow, remembering and forgetting, wisdom and ignorance, courage and timidity, generosity and tightfistedness, righteousness and wickedness, shame and brazenness, hope and fear, love and hate, delight and suffering, pride and humility, prominence and lowliness, and many other similar traits, which you practice in your inner life.

The Creator, may He be exalted, commanded the gatekeepers, rulers, officers, servants, advisors, assistants, and attendants to listen to you and carry out your command until a certain time, except in extraordinary matters which He made clear to them when they were brought into association with you. These matters are the meaning of Divine compulsion and the place of predetermination.

Dedicated to Dr. Jason and Jennifer Specht

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Love is in the air as Israel stands at the foot of Mount Sinai, ready to receive Torah and betroth themselves to G-d, a wedding whose anniversary we celebrate this week on Shavuot. This week’s parasha, Naso, makes many a meaningful reference to the happenings at Mount Sinai.

Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89)
Parashat Naso is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 9, 5773/May 18, 2013

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Shavuot: From Barley to Bread, from Slavery to Freedom

Bringing the First Fruits on Shavuot: Getting Real in the Land of Israel

The awesome spiritual energy of the month of Sivan  comes to a climax this week as we complete the seven-week period of counting the omer, and Israel observes the Festival of Shavuot, poised and ready to relive the Sinai Revelation experience. But Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman remind us that there’s more to Shavuot  than staying up all night. In the days of the Holy Temple, there is a completely different emphasis: the bringing of the first fruits. What’s fruit got to do with Torah study? Well, that depends on if you mean the real Torah. Tune into this week’s Temple Talk for an insight into Shavuot, the great celebration of the Land of Israel. Plus: just who is shutting our mouths on the Temple Mount? The Knesset gets involved and the plot thickens.

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G-d knows your name. He’s got your number. Torah is His to share with you. All its paths lead to Him. And all you’ve got to do is ask? No! All you’ve got to do is dedicate your every moment to living a life of Torah, and He will open each and every door. It’s your birthright. This is what we learn from parashat Bamidbar, the opening chapters of the book of Numbers, and this is the message of the holiday of Shavuot  – coming up next week!

Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)
Parashat Bamidbar is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 2, 5773/May 11, 2013

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The Flags of Jerusalem Day and the Flags of Mount Sinai

From Jerusalem Day to Shavuout: A Lesson in Jewish Unity 101

As we prepare to usher in the book of Bamidbar  (Numbers) which we will begin reading this Shabbat, this week’s edition of Temple Talk focuses on the observance of Jerusalem Day, which this year marks the 46th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman reflect on the amazing spiritual significance of this special day, and its connection, exactly one week later, to the festival of Shavuot, which commemorates Israel receiving the Torah at the Sinai Revelation. What’s the connection? Here’s a hint: One is not the loneliest number!

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I have found in the Scriptures on the subject of compulsion and predetermination, control and will, that all [these] are G-d’s in respect to all that He has created, whether mineral or vegetable, animal or rational, as it is written:

Whatever G-d willed, He did — in heaven and on earth (Tehillim 135:6); G-d puts to death and brings life; He casts down into the graves and raises up. G-d makes poor and makes rich; He brings low, He also exalts (Shmuel 1, 2:6-7); Who has spoken and it come to pass, unless G-d has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come? (Eichah 3:37-38); I form light and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil (Yeshiyahu 45:7); Unless G-d builds the house, its builders toll in vain on it. Unless G-d watches over the city, the watchman stays on alert in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and stay up late, you who eat bread of anxious toil; for He grants sleep to His beloved (Tehillim 127:1-2).

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The Admonitions of Bechukotei: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Netanyahu Bans Feiglin from the Temple Mount: A Tale from the Twilight Zone

Just as our hosts were recording this week’s edition of Temple Talk, coinciding with the harsh words of admonition in this week’s second Torah portion of Bechukotei, those words seem to come true, as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman received the terrible news of the murder of Evyatar Borovsky, 32 year old father of 5, by a Palestinian terrorist just recently released from an Israeli jail. How long will our righteous, beautiful and holy Jews continued to be slain before our eyes? Perhaps until we, as a nation, really begin not only to perform G-d’s commandments, but to ‘listen’ to His voice as well…

Just one week before Jerusalem Day, the very day that celebrates the reunification of our city and Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem, Knesset member Moshe Feiglin was banned from visiting the Temple Mount by no less than Prime Minister Netanyahu himself. Was the Prime Minister a bit overstepping his bounds? Legal? Illegal? Twilight zone material? Tune into this week’s Temple Talk as we explore the far reaches of the Temple Mount.

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Wanted: Dead or alive! There is no doubt that G-d loves and wants His people Israel. Either we are alive to His presence, and worthy of the blessings listed in Behar-Bechukotai, or we are dead to His presence, and thus deserving of the horrific admonitions enumerated in Behar-Bechukotai. The choice is ours.

Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)
Parashat Behar-Bechukotai is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 24, 5773/May 4, 2013

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Conversation and question(s) with Shmuel Peak our teacher. Please enjoy!

Dedicated to Barry and Gloria Ellington

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Parshat Emor and the Cohanim: A Celebration of Life

The Tsarnaev Brothers, Amalek, and the Worship of Death: Worlds in Collision

Get ready for the most controversial, politically incorrect Temple Talk of all time. Maybe your’e not ready to hear this broadcast. What does the book of Leviticus and Holy Temple teachings have to do with the Boston bombings? Yitzhak Reuven and Rabbi Richman have the answer, but you might be advised not to listen to this show if you are afraid of the truth about Islam vs. the G-d of Israel. Rabbi Richman, born in Boston, gets upfront, personal, and brutally honest in this exceptional, unforgettable edition of Temple Talk, full of original Torah insights and amazing revelations which will forever change the standards by which this program is measured.

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Analogously, if a person has been singled out by the Creator, May He be exalted, for special favor, he is under an obligation of increased service as an expression of gratitude for this favor.
For this reason the Early Pietists — whenever they were graced with some blessing from among the blessings of the world — would be apprehensive for two reasons: 1) that they not be deficient in fulfilling the service and expressing the gratitude they owed for this good fortune, so that it not turn into misfortune for them, as for our forefather Ya’akov said: “I am diminished from all the kindness” (Bereishit 32:11); and 2) that this not be the Creator’s reward for their service, at the expense of their reward in the World-to-Come, as explains by the Early Ones on the verse “He repays His enemies to their face [i.e., during their lifetime, so as] to destroy them [in the Hereafter]” (Devarim 7:10). This should suffice you.

Dedicated to Barry and Gloria Ellington

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Eternal life cannot be found in an ointment or lotion, or salve, or cream, or pill, or capsule. It cannot be swallowed or applied. It cannot be purchased or consumed. Eternal life awaits us all and can be experienced in this world via the Divine service of the Holy Temple.

Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23)
Parashat Emor is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 17, 5773/April 27, 2013

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Acharei Mot-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-20:27)
Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 10, 5773/April 20, 2013

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Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1-15:33)
Parashat Tazria-Metzora is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 3, 5773/April 13, 2013

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The Miraculous Transformation of the Modest Month of Iyar

Sefirat HaOmer: Counting, Shining, Telling the Story of Our Own Lives

In an unprecedented episode of Temple Talk dedicated to the sanctity of time and the dynamics of Redemption, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman deliver a passionate lesson about the Counting of the Omer, the month of Iyar and the State of Israel. This sprawling panorama of Jewish history spans from the building of the First Temple which King Solomon began during this very month, up to our very day… with the establishment of the State of Israel and the reunification of Jerusalem as the living proof of the healing power of the month of Iyar.

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Shmini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)
Parashat Shmini is read on Shabbat:
Nisan 26, 5773/April 6, 2013

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The proper way for a servant in this world to act toward his master, who bestowed upon him even a small portion of bounties your Creator has bestowed upon you, includes serving him exclusively, in word and in deeds; faithfulness to him and dedication in his affairs, both outwardly and inwardly; and awe and fear of him, so long as he is in his service. As one of the pious ones put it: “Do not rebel against your master while he is looking at you.” Also, the servant should be lowly and humble before his master, in his external actions and in the privacy of his conscience. He should bear himself with humility before him, in his dress and in his mode of conduct. He should honor him; exalt him with his tongue and his heart; praise and thank him by day and by night; recall his beneficence in private and in public; recount his glory and praise as befits him; run to do his service with joy and good intentions, out of love for him, to find favor before him, to draw near to his will.

Dedicated to John and Gloria Culver

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Passover to Shavuot via the Omer: The Long and Winding Road

Return the Temple Mount to the Jewish People!

The month of Redemption and the lessons of Passover continue to take center stage on Temple Talk, as an emotionally-charged Yitzchak Reuven recounts his very special Passover experience with a lamb in the house that challenged him to rethink everything. His sensitive story is a beautiful and measured taste of the Torah’s intentions in the bringing of offerings to the Holy Temple.

It’s that time of year again: sefirat ha-omer, the counting of the days and weeks leading up to the Giving of the Torah at Shavuout, days that present a unique spiritual opportunity. But before we delve into its mystery, let’s get the calendar straight!

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It is now fitting that we explain the form of stimulus [provided] by the intellect. Until the end of this gate [we will use] a question-and-answer format, as this is most suitable to a clear exposition of the topic we are investigating.

The intellectual stimulus is HaShem’s reminder to man, through his intellect, to know Him and to recognize the signs of His wisdom. It comes from HaShem to one who has made the Torah the light of his path, when he attains to the limit of his intellectual ability and the utmost clarity of his perception; when he yearns to gain the favor of the Almighty and to ascend the heights of the pious; and turns his heart away from worries and distractions of this world.

Dedicated to Professor Thomas Hays and Yonah Barrett

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The opinions of the people of the Torah regarding belief and the acceptance of the service of HaShem, may He be exalted, are on ten different levels.
It may be that, among the degrees of men of understanding in Torah, there exist gradations other than those we have described; we have mentioned only those in which the large majority of the people can be found. Citing them is of clear use to one who searches for the straight path: when he finds among them a level that he is close to, he will know which level is above it, and will try to ascend to it. The difference between his own level and the highest of all levels will be made clear to him, and he will attempt to ascend to it, level after level. This way will be easier for him.

Dedicated to Ollie and Bea Baldridge

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Special Passover teaching contained within!

Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36)
Parashat Tzav is read on Shabbat:
Nisan 12, 5773/March 23, 2013

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A Tale for Our Time: President Obama and the Passover Sacrifice

Passover and the Mission of Israel: To Fearlessly Slaughter the False Gods

Passover, the glorious festival of freedom, is preceded by another holy day, a day of preparation and portent: the tenth day of Nisan. In this week’s special kosher for Passover edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman make the connection between what happened on the tenth of Nisan, and our modern-day observance of Passover. Even as all of Israel prepares for a glorious and fulfilling holiday, the timing of President Obama’s visit to Jerusalem (not to mention the purpose of his trip) carries deep spiritual significance – and challenges. Tune into this Passover primer as our hosts continue to campaign for the renewal of the Passover offering and the realignment of Israel’s hearts and minds with our true national identity. We wish all of our listeners a joyous and kosher Passover – this year, today, in Jerusalem!

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Vayikra (Exodus 35:1-40:38)
Parashat Vayikra is read on Shabbat:
Nisan 5, 5773/March 16, 2013

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