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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
“Torah Study, the service to HaShem, and kind deeds
Torah study provides personal worth. The study of Torah builds spiritual, eternal beings out of mortals. The physical body is finite; it must come to an end. In contrast, Torah imbues a person with conceptual attributes: values and morals: principal and reason. Since these are not physical, they are not finite and never come to an end.
Personal worth comes through internalizing the values and principles of Torah and in no other way. It is in this way that Torah is a pillar of existence, for it molds us into whole and worthy beings.
The service of HaShem refers primarily to the Temple service of sacrifices, but it includes the service of HaShem through the performance of all mitzvous. The service of HaShem is a pillar of the world’s existence; it gives worth and wholeness to human existence in the context of the relationship with the Creator. Since the only existence is that of HaShem, everything else must relate back to His own existence, and provide that linkage through the service of HaShem.
Kind deeds, the third pillar, correspond to the third dimension of life: being integrated with others and good to them. To perform as act of kindness, without personal gain, is the highest degree of pure and enduring human worth. Kind deeds between one person and another induce a corresponding flow of kindness from HaShem that sustains the world.
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In this age of instant access to endless information, we are tempted to try to know everything! Is curiosity necessarily a good thing, or is it sometimes, as our sages suggest, an offshoot of arrogance?
True wisdom is in the acknowledgment that there are things that lie beyond our intellectual grasp. This wisdom is the portal to purity.
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Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)
Parashat Chukat is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 5, 5769/June 27, 2009
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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On the Temple Mount: Maimonides’ Hilchot Beit HaBechirah – Laws of the Chosen House, chapter VII: The ten levels of sanctity of the land of Israel continue to increase in sanctity upon the Temple Mount. Not only is a person with tamei met – spiritual impurity caused by contact with a dead body – allowed upon the Temple Mount plaza, but even a dead body itself is allowed on the Mount. However, the tamei met person is forbidden by penalty of karet – spiritual excise from the Jewish people – within the confines of the Temple Courtyards.
To learn more about the Temple Mount, and how to visit the place of the Holy Temple within the permissible areas, and in strict accordance with halacha – Jewish law – please visit the Temple Institute’s online Temple Mount section.
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Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on July 1, 2009, (Tammuz 9, 5769).
Michal, the daughter of Saul and the wife of King David, was a righteous woman, and despite her father’s violent antipathy toward her husband David, she proved to him a loyal wife. It was her great resemblance to her father, however, which proved her ultimate undoing.
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
The Significance of the Number “Three”
It seems superfluous for the Mishnah to count how many things were said; after all, we can easily count them ourselves. The Mishnah states “There are three things” to teach that the remedy consists of precisely three parts. No less would be adequate and no more required.
The number three is characteristic of a complete entity. An entity consists of three parts: two opposite extremes and an intermediate part that joins with those extremes to form a unified whole.
Consider a house. Inside is a haven of refuge and tranquility; outside lays the danger and the harsh elements; and the structure joins these extremes. We can fortify a house in all three dimensions. We can protect it from outside forces with a windbreaker and good water drainage. We can protect the inside by eliminating fire hazards, and we can brace the structure the house itself. All of those areas must be fortified, and there is no other area available for improvement.
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This program is dedicated to Madra Polk in her loving memory.
In praise of women: They avoided the sin of the golden calf; they did not participate in the badmouthing of the land of Israel. And in parashat Korach, we learn how the wife of On ben Pelet prevented her husband from taking part in the rebellion of Korach and helped him to repent of his original intentions. Stand by your man? Stand by your woman!
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Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)
Parashat Korach is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 28, 5769/June 20, 2009
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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The ‘Shma Yisrael’ is the quintessential expression of the Jewish faith. What are it’s origins? How was it recited during Temple times? What is the message of the three paragraphs that make up the Shma? Answers contained within!”
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