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On Tisha B’Av, the Jewish people mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple. Seated on the floor as mourners, the adults in the synagogue recite the traditional kinnot dirges. But is the goal simply the continuation of the mourning, for the sake of mourning? The children have a different idea of what needs to be done… Please watch and share!
This is a sequel to last year’s viral video The Children are Ready with over 400,000 views.
The Temple Institute thanks all the wonderful children and adults who helped to create this video!
Special Thanks: The Shraga Family, Yosef Adest Videos
Dedicated to Sinai Moshe Feld
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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 Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Jordan
Things Better Left Unsaid Dept.: The Unmentionable Innuendo of John Kerry
Got Flocks? In this week’s concluding Torah portions, Reuven, Gad, and half of Menashe have plenty of livestock, and are envious of the green grass in the Transjordan. Their flocks take precedence over their children. But their worldview was based on misplaced priorities. This week’s Temple Talk takes umbrage with these tribes’ spiritual heirs – those who place their material possessions over the fate of their children. Yitzhak Reuven and Rabbi Richman deliver a passionate overview of our generation’s entrance into the Land of Israel. Plus: John Kerry, wherefore art thou? While we appreciate your hairdo, have you noticed that the world is crumbling into an abyss of decadence and destruction? Yet as always, Israel remains the intransigent troublemaker.
Plus: Stay tuned for the world premiere of the Temple Institute’s all new video production, “The Children are Ready – Tisha b’Av 5773” which will be available for viewing on Sunday, July 7th. A sequel to last year’s highly successful “The Children are Ready” which has over 400,000 views, this year’s Tisha b’Av video message is even more amazing!
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Possessing a G-d consciousness, being aware every moment that we live in G-d’s world, and to act accordingly, this is the role of Israel as a nation and for each of us as individuals. For Israel this reality ultimately can only be realized within the borders of the land of Israel. Those who strive for it will enter. Those who shrink from it will not.
Matot-Masei (Numbers 30:2-36:13)
Parashat Matot-Masei is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 28, 5773/July 6, 2013
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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The reason the Creator obliged man to exert himself and search for the means of [obtaining] a livelihood and other necessities is twofold.
First, since Divine wisdom demands the trail of the soul with service of G-d or rebellion against Him, G-d tries the soul with what will reveal its choice in the matter, namely, with the need and want for that which is external to it — food, drink, clothing, shelter, and sexual relations. He commanded human beings to seek and obtain these requirements through the available means, in specific ways, and at certain times. What the Creator decrees a man should attain of the man realizes and attains through ample means which are provided him. What the Creator does not decree that he should attain of them he does not attain, and the means are withheld from him. His service or sin is demonstrated through his intent on — and choice of — one to the exclusion of the other, and this then determines reward or punishment, even if he does not carry it out in deed.
Dedicated to Kenneth Paul Monfort
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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A person who does not understand the affairs of the world thinks that it is the new, created cause that effects change in things and their transformation from one state to another. Actually, the cause is too weak and insignificant to bring about change or transformation in the essence of things. We perceive, for instance, that a single grain of wheat produces three hundred ears of wheat, each of which bears thirty grains, so that a single grain produces ten thousand grains, or nearly that number. Can anyone fail to recognize that the force [inherent] in the grain is insufficient to produce this amount? And so it is with other grains that are sown or planted. The same applies to the generation of a human being and of other living creatures from a drop of semen, or the growth of a large fish from a tiny fish egg.
Preoccupying oneself with advancing what the Creator, May He be exalted, delayed, or delaying what He advanced, or increasing what He diminished, or diminishing what He increased among worldly possessions – if it does not lead to the fulfillment of the duty to serve God and accept His Torah – reflects a lack of recognition of the true nature of His knowledge and ignorance of the beneficence of His government.
Dedicated to Jackson Lee, Alyssa Grace, and Seth Williams Mullins
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The five daughters of Tzelaphchad, Machlah, Noa, Hogla, Milcah and Tirzah remain to this day shining examples of righteous Jews whose love of the land of Israel is irrepressible and unstoppable. Their spiritual descendents today, the righteous daughters of Israel who establish their faithful homes in Judea and Samaria are following in their virtuous footsteps.
Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1)
Parashat Pinchas is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 21, 5773/June 29, 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:
Pillars of Cloud and Fire, But I’m Just a Natural Man
The Indescribable Joy of Mourning for the Temple and the Jewish Problem
It has begun. The Seventeenth of Tammuz has launched the annual cycle of mourning over the loss of the Holy Temple. But where is it taking us? With even more than their usual sang froid, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman present a concise and analytic review of the Three Weeks of mourning, in which they bemoan the bemoaning. Make no mistake about it: This program focuses on one verse, (Zech. 8:19) “This is what the Hashem Al-mighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Love truth and peace” … and asks, OK, now what? How will that verse be fulfilled? Our hosts also explain why this week’s Torah portion of parashat Pinchas is the perfect companion to this time of year. The message is resoundingly positive and you won’t want to miss it!
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