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The Levitical orchestra didn’t simply provide pleasant background accompaniment for the Temple offerings. The music was an integral spiritual aspect of the service of the offerings, designed to awaken within the worshipper true feelings of repentance. Second in a series.
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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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Many people today recast G-d and His Torah in their own image, according to their own criteria of how life should be. Pinchas was zealous for G-d’s honor, and that life should be lived as He has prescribed it. For his devotion to G-d’s honor, G-d honored Pinchas in return with His covenant of peace.
Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1)
Parashat Pinchas is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 14, 5771/July 16, 2011
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Musicologist David Louis is back, presenting a series of moving musical vignettes based on and about the Holy Temple, King David and King Solomon, prophecy and the Levitical Orchestra. Fascinating and inspiring. We guarantee that you will walk away with a song on your lips and in your heart! First in a series.
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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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“There is nothing new under the sun,” and that goes for the “new” antisemitism, and the “international community’s” exasperation with Israel’s obsession with such petty issues as sovereignty, security, viability and her continued existence as a free and independent people in their own land. Many years ago the long-time enemies of Moav, (led by Balak ) and Midian, (represented by Bilaam ), joined forces to try to erase their mutual enemy Israel. The urbane and cosmopolitan Bilaam was called in to put a politically correct face on the viciously antisemitic diatribe they were espousing.
Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 7, 5771/July 9, 2011
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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Next week on Light to the Nations:
The Temple Offerings, Part VI
The Daily (Tamid ) Offering is so central to Israel’s relationship with G-d that the daily prayer service of the past two thousand years is based upon the structure and purpose of the Daily Offering. But how did the Daily Offering actually take place in the Holy Temple?
Dedication: Dedicated to Janet & Gary Shaw.
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