Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
Countdown To a Historic Sukkot Pilgrimage to the Temple Mount
The Profound Joy of the Sukkot Experience: First Day of the Rest of our Lives
Yom Kippur is behind us, and the challenges of a brand-new year are before us. In this gala Sukkot edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman connect the dots between the Days of Awe and the week-long festival of Sukkot, G-d’s own confirmation of His forgiveness and eternal love for Israel. Our hosts are ready to escape into the sukkah, closest experience in our time to being in the Holy Temple itself. But over the Sukkot holiday, Yitzchak and the rabbi indeed intend on helping others to relive the pilgrimage to the Holy Temple! Tune into this week’s Temple Talk as our hosts discuss just why Sukkot is called by the Torah “the time of our joy.” We wish all our listeners Chag Sameach, a joyous festival of Sukkot. The next edition of Temple Talk will air after the festival, on 27 Tishrei, Tues. Oct. 4th, G-d willing.
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Man has the ability to loose the bonds of time and change his past, his present and his future! The gift of teshuva – repentance – and the blessing of atonement – given by G-d to man, liberate us from our own self imposed shackles and enable us to return to our true selves and better serve G-d. Gmar Chatima Tova – May We be Sealed in the Book of Life!
Yom Kippur is Friday night/Shabbat:
Tishrei 10, 5774/September 14, 2013
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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:
Be a Ba’al Teshuva of Love, and Don’t Tear Up Your Tracks!
The Yom Kippur Experience: It’ll Be Just Like Starting Over
The first edition of Temple Talk for the new year of 5774 finds our hosts in the midst of the Tishrei encounter, in deep preparation for Yom Kippur, the awesome and beloved Day of Atonement. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman present an amazing tour de force on the fine art and science of repentance. This show is must for Yom Kippur understanding! What does repentance really mean, and what is its unique power? What is the promise G-d made regarding atonement on this day? Tune into this week’s special Temple Talk repentance workshop. Plus: unveiling a special Holy Temple experience co-hosted by the Temple Institute and Manhigut Yehudit, this Sukkot!
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Enter the new year of 5774 with a song in your heart. Ha’azinu, a microcosm of the spiritual history of Israel and G-d, is a beautifully compelling song that challenges all generations of man. We stand before the King in song and prayer as we cross the threshold into a new year. Shana Tova!
Nitzavim-Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52)
Parashat Ha’azinu is read on Shabbat:
Tishrei 3, 5774/September 7, 2013
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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:
Rosh HaShana: Will the Real King Please Stand Up?
Face-Off of Rosh HaShana: The Destitute King vs. The Supreme King
Rosh HaShana, Adam’s awesome birthday is here, ushering in the New Year. In this Rosh HaShana Temple Talk special, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman reflect on the legacy of Adam HaRishon, the first man, whose descendants – great and small, individuals and nations – are examined on this Day of Judgment. Tune into the last Temple Talk for 5773 as our hosts discover that it’s the breath of Adam that counts… and that breath, blasting from our souls through the narrow opening of the shofar, can make all the difference in the world. Temple Talk will back next year (next week, that is) in 5774… and may it be a year of great blessing for Israel and all humanity… may this be the year of the rebuilding of the Holy Temple!
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The world is in turmoil, but when Israel stands – nitzavim – strong, steady and determined to enter into and inherit her destiny – then nothing can harm her, for G-d is with her.
Nitzavim-Vayelech (Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30)
Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech is read on Shabbat:
Elul 25, 5773/September 1, 2013
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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 Nitzavim Revisited: Standing Firm in a World Gone Mad
Plain Talk About the Eternal, Non-Negotiable Covenant Between G-d and Israel
This week’s double Torah reading of Nitzavim-Vayelech opens with Moshe’s renewal of G-d’s covenant with Israel. In these words spoken on the last day of his life, Moshe Rabbeinu emphasizes that every future generation of Israel is included in this relationship: “Not with you alone do I seal this covenant…but with who is here, standing with us today…and with whoever is not here with us today.”
What is the nature of this unique, non-negotiable covenant? Can’t I get off the train? Sorry, nothing doing… Israel is in this deal forever. It’s part of our DNA; our connection with G-d, so easily misunderstood, is the most basic fact of who we are. But a covenant goes two ways: Israel is forever obligated to represent G-d in this world, and G-d, in turn, guarantees the eternity of the Jewish people. Take a break from the runaway madness of today’s headlines and tune into this week’s penultimate Temple Talk of the year 5773, as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman expound upon the promises of repentance and redemption, and speculate on the mysteries of Jewish survival, Jewish destiny… and the secret of Jewish neurosis. Cancel that appointment with your analyst: all you need to be normal is to study parshat Netzavim!
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