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Archive for Iyar / Sivan 5771 - June 2011
Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
Chapter 5
Mishnah 7
No serpent or scorpion ever bit an individual fatally in Yerushalaiyim. The sanctity of the city protected its inhabitants so that the many snakes and scorpions found in Yerushalaiyim miraculously did no harm.
Homiletically, Rauch Chaim explains our Mishnah based on Talmudic axiom, it is not the snake, but rather the sin that kills. Sin is deadly; the venomous snake is nothing more than HaShem’s agent of punishment.
Light to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Next week on Light to the Nations:
The Temple Offerings, Part V
Israel has never lost sight of our obligation to renew the Divine service at the nearest possible opportunity, and throughout the millennia a number of Israel’s greatest sages have striven to create conditions in which Temple offerings could be made. Today a growing number of scholars and spiritual leaders are calling for the immediate renewal of the offerings, beginning with the Korban Pesach – the Passover offering.
Dedication: Dedicated to Razia & Tzvi Richman: Mazal tov on the birth of a son!
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Heaven – or at least, the Garden of Eden, in its earthly embodiment in the land of Israel – awaits the generation of the desert. All they need to do is pack their gear and step inside. From whence the spiritual negativity that drove them from “heaven’s” door even as they were perched to enter? Their great failing remains for our generation to overcome and to correct. G-d, despite His great anger at their disregard for the land, blesses them with the commandments concerning the wine libations and the taking of challah, both of which are contingent on being in the land of Israel. In this manner
G-d both comforts them that their children will someday enter the land, and instructs them once in the land of Israel, their Divine mission will be the rectification of the failing of Adam, the first man.
Shelach (Numbers 13:1-15:41)
Parashat Shelach is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 16, 5771/June 18, 2011
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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 Twelve Spies: Whose Idea Was It, Anyway?
Torah’s Shortest Book: A Two Verse Reminder of The Way it Should Have Been
Everything was set and ready to go… and then – one calamity after another. That’s how it is when things disintegrate, and things just seem to go from bad to worse in this week’s Torah reading of Shlach, as we witness the twelve man mission of distinguished gentlemen from the tribes of Israel, who, with great fanfare and an official sendoff managed to enter the land of Israel, exit the land of Israel, and then just get everything all wrong. All that is, except from Yehoshua and Calev, who try in vain to rally the nation and avert the meltdown. Tzvi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven try to make sense of this the most devastating misadventure in the annals of Jewish history, and apply its lessons to today’s ongoing struggle to weed out doubt and reclaim the land.
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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:
6th of Sivan: From the Garden of Eden to the Holy Temple
Chag Shavuot: First Fruits & Matan Torah: Bringing it All Back Home
With special guest host Tzvi Richman, Yitzchak Reuven discusses the holiday that concludes the counting of the Omer: Shavuot. Why are two loaves of bread the central offering of Shavuot, and why is the bread from wheat and not barley? And what makes this offering different from all other offerings? What do the first fruits have to do with receiving Torah at Sinai? And what does Adam, the first man, have to do with Shavuot? Answers inside!
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Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak
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Mishnah 5
Chapter 7d
Throngs of pilgrims gathered in the Temple Courtyard on the festivals and Yom Kippur, filling the Courtyard to capacity. Yet miraculously, though there was not even enough room to stand comfortably, each individual had ample room to prostrate themselves and con fess their sins on Yom Kippur, or to recite personal prayers on the festivals, without being overheard by their neighbors.
The Temple Courtyard was so crowded that many people were literally suspended in midair, with their feet off the ground. Nonetheless, they were able to bow down comfortably.
Dedicated to Brody and Jan Gibson
Israel’s desert experience, as described throughout the book of Numbers, is a reality created by G-d in which He tends to their every need, but at the same time teaches them how to take responsibility for themselves as individuals and also as a nation. When they shy away or shirk their responsibility, G-d rebukes them. In this manner they are being prepared to enter into the land of Israel where they will assume their role in bringing the entire world closer to G-d and His Torah.
Beha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)
Parashat Beha’alotcha is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 9, 5771/June 11, 2011
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