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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:
Magnificent Obsession with the Temple Mount
Israel’s 19th Knesset and Parashat Mishpatim: Everything is from Sinai
This is a week of covenants. As the members of Israel’s 19th Knesset are sworn in and pledge to serve the State of Israel and the Jewish people, this week’s Torah portion of Mishpatim finds the people of Israel still standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, receiving the details of their obligations to G-d, and entering into a covenant with Him: “Moshe took the Book of the Covenant and read it within the earshot of the people, and they said, ‘Everything that Hashem has said, we will do, and we will obey!’ “
Is it coincidence that Israel’s new Knesset, representatives of Israeli law, takes its oath during the week in which the Torah emphasizes the entire nation’s oath to uphold Hashem’s law? We don’t believe in coincidence. As we’ve said before, the past isn’t even past. We’re still standing at Sinai and our covenant with the Almighty is still predicated on action – on fulfilling our role in this world.
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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If someone helps you, it is your duty to thank them, in accordance with their good intentions. Even if, due to extenuating circumstance, they fall short — indeed — and is prevented from helping you, nevertheless, you must thank them, since they have demonstrated their good will toward you and their desire to help you. On the other hand, if someone does you a favor unintentionally, you owe no gratitude.
When we reflect on the favors that men do for each other, we find that they fall into one of five categories: 1) the favors of a parent for their child; 2) of a master for their servant; 3) favors by the wealthy for the poor, in order to merit a spiritual reward; 4) those that one does for another in order to gain a good reputation, honor, and a worldly return; 5) favors done by powerful for the weak, out of compassion and empathy.
Dedicated to Jared and Sheri Specht
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The Sinai revelation takes place in a desert no man’s land, but the entire Sinai experience is a prequel and a dry run to the Daily Tamid Service of the Holy Temple through which the covenant at SInai is renewed, reconfirmed and made eternal each and every day.
Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18)
Parashat Mishpatim is read on Shabbat:
Shevat 29, 5773/February 9, 2013
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At Mount Sinai G-d stretched Israel’s capacities to the limit. Her senses turned upside-down, her reality turned inside-out, it was Israel’s unconditional embrace of the new role that G-d assigned her as caretaker of the universe, that gave her the strength to withstand the unbearable closeness of her encounter with G-d and make it through the Sinai rendezvous.
Yitro (Exodus 20:15-20:23)
Parashat Yitro is read on Shabbat:
Shevat 22, 5773/February 2, 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:
The Perpetual Moment of the Mount Sinai Revelation
Yitro Finds the One G-d of Israel
In the midst of thunder, lighting and visible blasts of the shofar, Israel stands at the foot of Mount Sinai in this week’s Torah portion of Yitro, heaven and earth meet, and the Torah became the heritage of not only every Jew, but every true spiritual seeker. Take, for example, Moshe’s father-in-law Yitro, a heathen priest turned super-righteous Gentile. He demonstrates that the Torah is for everyone, not matter what your background. Tune into this week’s Temple Talk as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman prepare for the Sinai revelation found in this week’s Torah reading: the source of every prophecy, every question, all wisdom and the cradle in which was nurtured even the unborn souls… it’s all part of the magnificent interface between mankind and the Divine.
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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Praise be the wise Creator, compassionate and kind toward His servants, Who watches over them benevolently in all the may benefit them — there is no power beside Him. As He said to Yonah: “You cared about the kikayon (cord), which you did not labor for and which you did not grow; which appeared overnight. And should I not care about the great city Nineveh?” (Yonah 4:10-11); and as David, of blessed memory, said: HaShem is good to all, and His mercy is upon all His works” (Tehillim 145:9).
Dedicated to Kathleen Wilkinson
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Election Day in Israel: Like crossing the Sea of Reeds – nothing more and nothing less. An entire nation steps into the unknown, determined to shape its own destiny as one people, guided by their eternal faith in the G-d of Israel. It was breathtaking then, and it’s breathtaking now.
Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16)
Parashat Beshalach is read on Shabbat:
Shevat 15, 5773/January 26, 2013
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