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Archive for Nisan / Iyar 5771 - May 2011
Modern physicists speak of the space-time continuum, but the Torah, thousands of years ago, already identified the space-continuum as being found within the holy Sabbath and the sabbatical (shmitta ) year, and instructs us to play our own part in bringing this spiritual cosmic energy to have bearing on our own lives.
Behar (Leviticus 25:1-26:2)
Parashat Behar is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 10, 5771/May 14, 2011
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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Chapter 5
Mishnah 5
Ten miracles were performed for our ancestors.
The ten miracles are the ten plaques that HaShem brought on behalf of the Children of Yisra’el, when He took them out of Egypt.
Rambam considers the tem miracles to be the fact that the Jews were saved from the ten plaques. The plaques afflicted the land of Mitzrayim but miraculously bypassed the Jews. For example, if a Jew and an Egyptian were together during the plaque of darkness, the Egyptian would experience darkness and the Jew would have light.
Dedicated to Glen and Michelle Magnusson.
Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute.
This week features:
The Sabbatical Year, Mount Sinai & a Challenge to Diaspora Jewry
What Does Israel Independence Day Have to Do with the Holy Temple? Everything!
Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven express their thankfulness and passion for the State of Israel in this moving Temple Talk special edition for the 63rd Independence Day of the State of Israel. They unabashedly ask: What clearer indication could there be that we are on the way towards the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in our time?
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Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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Next week on Light to the Nations:
The Temple Offerings, Part III
There are many types of offerings, each with its own requirements, but every offering points to the supremacy of man over the animal kingdom.
Dedication: Dedicated to Y’hoshua Sierk & family.
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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 Execution of Bin Laden and the Jewish Problem
G-d to Israel: Get a Grip, Get with the Program, Get Holiness!
Has America validated Israel’s policy of targeted assassinations by executing Bin Laden… or is a different standard applied to Israel? You guessed it. But don’t forget that we know that G-d most definitely applies a different standard to Israel; that’s what the Torah portions we’ve been reading the past few weeks are all about. This week’s edition of Temple Talk finds Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven exploring G-d’s standards, man’s standards, and the reality of holiness to which Israel is called, all within the framework of the Bin Laden execution, the book of Leviticus and the counting of the Omer.
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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Chapter 5
Mishnah 4
Our forefather Avraham was tested with ten trials.
Why did HaShem test Avraham? HaShem knew what Avraham was like without conducting a test.
HaShem desires a good person’s righteousness to be actively apparent. He tests good people so that their righteous response will serve as a role model for the rest of humanity. HaShem endowed Avraham with many good qualities so that, through his righteous reputation, he would serve as a mentor to the entire human race.
In memory of Vera Cressman.
Not just the kohanim, but all of Israel have been tasked by G-d with the responsibility to be holy: To think and to behave in a manner that enables the divine Shechina to fill our world.
Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23)
Parashat Emor is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 3, 5771/May 7, 2011
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