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“I am HaShem your G-d.” The first of the Ten Commandments instructs us to seek out G-d in our world. One such seeker was Yitro, a former idolater who overcame his doubts and recognized the one G-d, earning him the privilege of being forever associated with the receiving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai.
Yitro (Exodus 118:1-20:23)
Parashat Yitro is read on Shabbat:
Shevat 18, 5775/February 7, 2015
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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 Groundhog Day/Tu B’Shevat Connection
Tu B’Shevat, Parashat Yitro and the Holy Temple: Being ‘Grounded’ in this World
Tu B’Shevat is here, and this week’s Temple Talk pays homage to the ‘New Year for Trees,’ as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman weave a remarkable thematic thread that links this time of deep spiritual renewal with this week’s Torah portion of Yitro. And of course, all roads lead to the Holy Temple, and our road traverses and arrives at the Temple Mount. This week’s program features unique, real-time analysis of recent developments on the Temple Mount. Plus, special guest Punxsutawney Phil provides rare insights on the existential implications of Groundhog Day…it’s all about the Inner Circle!
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The crossing of the Sea of Reeds on dry land celebrated by the children of Israel in the Song of the Sea, was not just a passage from slavery to freedom, it was a passage from the past to an ever approaching future. It was a revelation shared by all the children of Israel, a premonition and prophecy and proof of the future resurrection of the dead.
Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16)
Parashat Beshalach is read on Shabbat:
Shevat 11, 5775/January 31, 2015
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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:
Obama’s Netanyahu Problem
The Future of the Free World & a Bathtub Full of Fruit Loops
This week’s Temple Talk examines the word ‘maw,’ usually defined as ‘the jaws or throat of a voracious animal,’ but informally used as ‘the mouth or gullet of a greedy person.’ Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman are amazed that while the President of the United States of America refuses to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu because he is too busy, the POTUS does have time to meet with GloZell Green, a viral YouTube personality famous for sitting in a bathtub full of FruitLoops and cramming the cereal down her maw. Informally. But she certainly has a lot of views, and that’s all that matters! A world leader has the right to determine his priorities. In the meantime, the Free World continues to slip, senselessly and surreptitiously, into the insatiable, ravenous maw of Islam. But as Secretary of State Kerry says, “don’t blame Islam for the crimes of Islam! Let’s not lose our heads!” Anyway, as far as the world is concerned, it’s all Israel’s fault. All this on the backdrop of the Torah portion of Beshalach, in which the people of Israel, freed from Egypt, march through the Sea of Reeds on their way to destiny. Join the hosts of Temple Talk as they try to make sense of a world gone fruit loopy.
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
“Beware of laziness and sloth, and rely on no one but yourself. For you have control of the good and the bad: you have the power to be active or passive. Exert yourself with all your strength, and labor with all your energy, and you will attain all you desire of worldly pleasures. Do all that you can to avoid the causes of misfortune, and you will escape them, as the Wise One said: ‘Thorne and snare are in the twisted path; he who guards himself will keep far from them’ (Mishlei 22:5); ‘A man folly wraps his way, yet his heart rages against HaShem’ (Mishlei 19:3); ‘This is your own doing’ (Malachi 1:9).”
And so [the evil inclination] changes its argument, at times [basing it] on compulsion and predetermination, at other times on justice and free will, as the occasion suites it to mislead and weaken you.
For the Elevation of the Soul: Tamara Berry
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Time: Where does it come from? Where does it begin? Who determines time and what gift does time contain? “This month shall be to you the head of the months; to you it shall be the first of the months of the year.” Exodus 12:2 marks the beginning of time, as G-d gives the power of time to the children of Israel, and with it, the gift of freedom.
Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)
Parashat Bo is read on Shabbat:
Shevat 4, 5775/January 24, 2015
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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:
Revisiting the 10 Plagues
High Drama on the Stage of Humanity: Are You Getting This?
Was it Bob Dylan who sang, ‘Buckets of Rain, Buckets of Torah?’ Maybe not. But that’s exactly what the new month of Shevat is all about… during this month, the rains of winter ascend in the veins of the trees and bring renewal, climaxing on the holiday of Tu B’Shvat… and at the same time, the sweet and healing waters of Torah rain upon down us, as Moshe began to review the entire Torah before the Children of Israel beginning on the first day of the month of Shevat. In this week’s edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman share beautiful insights on the singularity of the month of Shevat, and its potential for personal growth. At the same time, as we read about the last three of the Ten Plagues in this week’s Torah portion of Bo, our hosts transpose the situation in ancient Egyptian onto our contemporary milieu, and ask aloud: Are we getting the message?
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