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Stuck Inside of Egypt with the Memphis Blues Again Temple Talk Beginning the Book of Exodus: Pharaoh's Advisers and the Jewish Problem.      Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Darkness Dreams Are NOT Deserted Temple Talk Chanukah Dreams and Realities. The Battle Against Forgetfulness and the Victory of Remembrance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Roots of a Soul: Yitzchak and the Secret of Resurrection Temple Talk As rains of blessing fall in the Land of Israel, our hosts reflect upon the Torah and prophetic readings and allude to endless depths of meaning, recalling the dew of the future, which will signal the heralded and promised resurrection of the dead. A deeper look into Torah traditions reveals that our patriarch Yitzchak already experienced this moment, and like the secret contained within Yitzchak's very name, in the future all of his progeny, the people of Israel, will indeed l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website With Special Guests Rabbi David Louis & his Mikdash All-Stars! Temple Talk The holy Sukkahs  that we build on our terraces and in our backyards each year are nothing more and nothing less than a temporary Holy Temple, filled with the light of the ein sof  – the infinite light. This same light which fills our Sukkah  was expressed during the seven days of Sukkot in the Holy Temple through the joyful music of the Water Libation Celebration, and the exuberant spontaneity of the music inspired prophecy among those who heard it.Filmed in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Sukkah, Four Species, and the Seven Shepherds of Israel Temple Talk With the conclusion of Yom Kippur and the sealing of judgement, the joy of Tishrei increases as G-d calls upon His people Israel to enter into the sukkah to spend some intimate time with Him. There in the Sukkah, enveloped in the Divine surrounding light, we will begin to format ourselves for the coming year, aided by the numerous beautiful commandments that we fulfill during this unique week. Join us for a special Temple Talk that focuses on the rich and colorful pattern of Ti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tishrei Experience: Close Encounters of the Real Kind Temple Talk Passion, pathos and power; emotion, elation and energy: It's all here in this week's breathtaking Repentance-themed edition of Temple Talk, the first installment of this brand-new year of 5772. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman are at their very best, as they grapple with the I and Thou of this moving month of Tishrei and the re-calibration of our souls which the Divinely-orchestrated, life-changing experiences of this holiday season are designed to impart.  F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Days of Awe: Signed, Sealed and Delivered, I'm Yours! Temple Talk In this last edition of Temple Talk for the outgoing year of 5771, our hosts discuss the coming Day of Judgment and the awesome challenge it presents to each and every one of us to stay focused on our priorities and recognize Hashem's presence in our lives. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman ponder the dilemma of how to know whether our names have been written into the Book of Life...and give some practical advice to help us make sure we have done our utmost to prepare for t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Possession of the Land of Israel: Then and Now Temple Talk Israel is obliged not only to enter the land of Israel, to conquer itand possess it and to build within it a Torah-based society, but atthe same time to make it vividly and preeminently and undeniably andunquestionably and unassailably  clear to all the nations around her,that the people of Israel and the land of Israel are united forever bythe Torah of Israel and that it is the supernal will of the G-d ofIsrael that Israel shall dwell within her land forever. This is them ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preparing to Enter the Land of Israel: It's a Vision Thing Temple Talk Open your eyes: Every one of our five sense must rise to the occasion as we prepare to enter the land of Israel and fulfill our purpose for being here! Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven discuss this week's Torah reading of Re'eh. Moshe addressed the generation that was entering the land then, but his message of total commitment to the land of Israel and to the place that G-d shall choose for His HolyPresence - the Shechina - to dwell, applies to our generation more than e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tu b'Av: Celebrating the Love Between G-d and His People Temple Talk Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven talk about the passage of time and the changing seasons as the heartbreak of the 9th of Av is superseded by the renewed love of the 15th of Av; death in the desert is superseded by life in the holy land of Israel; and the wood offering takes its yearly pause, so that no rotten wood will be found in the Holy Temple.   Flash Player   Google Player  * To download the mp3 click the down arrow or click here.* For the Temple Talk archiv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tisha B'Av on the Temple Mount: From Mourning to Rebuilding Temple Talk Flash Player   Google Player* To download the mp3 click the down arrow or click here.* For the Temple Talk archives click the right arrow or click here.* To email Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven click here. On Tisha B'Av, the day of mourning and national tragedy, Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven ascended the holy Temple Mount together with hundreds of Jews of all ages and backgrounds, searching for understanding on this spiritually-powerful day. We all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Menachem Av: Father Knows Best & the Best is Yet to Be Temple Talk Flash Player   Google PlayerWindows Media Player   To download the mp3 click on the down arow or click here.For the Temple Talk archives click here.To email Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven click here. It is the month of Av and the perennial housing shortage in Israel is once again making waves as protesters are taking to the streets. Butthis year's righteously indignant ringleaders are the very same people representing the very same organizations that exactl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Golden Bell Found from the High Priest's Tunic Temple Talk Have you ever lost a quarter down the gutter? You can see it down there but it's just beyond your reach. Easy come, easy go. But if it was your wife's golden earring, or, G-d forbid, her wedding band, you would be beside yourself. Imagine how the High Priest felt when he realized that one of the seventy two golden bells which lined the hem of his techelet blue tunic just dropped off and fell into the City of David sewer system. Did he receive a stern reprimand from his wif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tammuz: The Eyes of the Idol with the Iron Head are Crying Temple Talk We once again enter the three weeks of contemplative introspection concerning the Holy Temple which was destroyed 1941 years ago. Are we any closer to building the Holy Temple today than we were a year ago?Are the three weeks of "mourning " helping to ready us for restoring the Divine service or has it become a cathartic device to "let us off the hook? " The prophet Ezekiel describes enigmatically the idolatrous cult of Tammuz, the eponymous namesake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Men of Peace Walk in Where Others Fear to Tread Temple Talk The mild and humble grandson of Aharon had to think and act fast to stay the plague devouring Israel. His exceptional act of moral courage raised many eyebrows and even more questions, then and now. YitzchakReuven and Tzvi Richman carefully analyze Pinchas, the legacy he was born into and the legacy he helped to create, and try to understand why G-d Himself dispelled all the doubts about Pinchas, by awarding himHis "Covenant of Peace. "This week from t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilaam & Balak & the Flotilla of Hatred Temple Talk Using every angle under the sun, Balak and the heathen mercenary prophet Bilaam pulled out all the stops trying to curse the nation of Israel. Seeing that they couldn't militarily overcome Israel this was their desperate attempt to keep Israel from possessing the land G-d chose for her. Sound familiar? As president Barack H. Obama said, the "international community [has] expectations [that] have gone unmet. " No doubt Balak was thinking the same thing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Matter of Life, Death and the Red Heifer Temple Talk What do the red heifer, Miriam's well, the rock that Moses struck two times with his staff, the disgruntled Israelites, Israel's request from the nation of Edom and her subsequent wars all have in common? Besides all appearing in this week's Torah reading of Chukat, they all provide insight into how G-d runs our natural world with an overlayand influx of His beneficence. That is, all reality bends to G-d's will. And, O yes, the color red is woven throug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Of G-d, the king and the people: Who makes the rules? Temple Talk Yitzchak Reuven and Tzvi Richman square off over Korach and his rebellion: Were his intentions true? Was he an anarchist at heart? Did his rebellion differ from the children of Israel's plea to Shmuel centuries later to appoint over them a king? In the meantime, Rabbi Richman is off to America where he will be conducting his three week speaking engagement tour.This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: KORACH: What is the meaning of the Torah's reference to the m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Twelve Spies: Whose Idea Was It Anyway? Temple Talk 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. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Garden of Eden to the Holy Temple Temple Talk 6th of Sivan: From the Garden of Eden to the Holy TempleWith 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? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parashat Naso: Fidelity & the Land of Israel Temple Talk The world wants to wrest Jerusalem from the hands and the heart of the nation of Israel, but we will never let that happen.  Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven reflect upon the day, forty four years ago, in which the prophetic clock began ticking anew as G-d and Israel fulfilled their long before planned rendezvous and met and embraced once again in the united city of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.But are we being faithful to the holy city, t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama vs. Am Israel Temple Talk Beit El (INR) - Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute made an impassioned response to US President Barack Obama's vision for dividing Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem, and giving the Jewish people's ancestral heartland to PA Arabs. "We are faced with many bin laden's every day, not just one, what gives you the right to decide we should negotiate with our bin laden's while you take yours out? " Richman asked of Obama. "The only thing that makes it difficult to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Israel by (the Book of) Numbers: Preparing to Enter the Land Temple Talk As the Israelites fall into formation around the Holy Tabernacle in the opening chapters of the Book of Numbers, preparing to march into, conquer, OCCUPY and fill the land of Israel with the Torah of Israel in accordance with the will of the G-d of Israel, 4000 years later, (and simultaneously), Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven standshoulder to shoulder defending Israel and her homeland against the brazen voodoo "peace " policies of President Ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sweet Taste of Rainfall in Iyar Temple Talk Concluding Leviticus: The Book of For G-d's Sake Pesach Sheni: The Day Amalek Attacked and the Holiday of Second Chances The book of Leviticus concludes with a list of admonitions for Israel. How simple, how sweet and complete are our lives in the land of Israel, G-d's property, if we but follow His word and perform His word. Security, prosperity and peace are ours! But should we slip, the litany disasters  which will befall Israel and the shame and of opprobrium which wil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sabbatical Year, Mount Sinai & a Challenge to Diaspora Jewry Temple Talk 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?This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: BEHAR: Will be posted right after Yom Ha'atzma'ut!http://www.youtube.com/user/henryporter2&# ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Through the Sea of Reeds: Don't Look Back Temple Talk In this post-Pesach return, Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven stir it up. Having walked through the Sea of Reeds, our hosts are determined not to look back towards Egypt. Hopefully, we will all utilize the spiritual tools we are presented with for personal, national, and global growth towards the ultimate freedom of the Torah, during these days of the counting of the Omer. This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE: LIGHT TO THE NATIONS, with Rabbi Chaim Richman:  UNDERSTANDING T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passover Freedom, Islamic Lies and Political Correctness Temple Talk The Pascal offering, (korban Pesach), and leaving Egypt for good is all about smashing idols and doing precisely what is politically correct, and this is precisely what Rabbi Chaim Richman, Yitzchak Reuven and special guest, professional iconoclast, Tzvi Richman set out to achieve in this week's TempleTalk. The most essential and important and cathartic and healing and purifying thing Israel could do right now for the betterment of herself and all the nations wou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parshat Tazria, Israel & Earthquakes: The World's Wake-Up Call Temple Talk This week's Torah portion, Tazria, like all of the book of Leviticus, presents the challenge of living life on an accelerated plane of consciousness. The much-misunderstood laws of purity, as embodied by the enigmatic, elusive, metaphysical illness of tzarat, are in reality a Divinely-orchestrated barometer of spiritual sensitivity... or the lack of it. Rather than being a punishment, this illness - admittedly a test -  was visited upon Israel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nadav & Avihu: Keeping it Kosher & Making the Most of This World Temple Talk This week's Torah portion begins with the words "And it was on the eighth day... "  And this day was none other than Rosh Chodesh Nisan, the first day of the month of Nisan, soon to be upon us. What is so special about this day, that led our sages to declare that it was "decorated with ten crowns? " What is the connection between the dedication of the Tabernacle and the creation of the world?Purim is past and Passover is just around the corner. This Shabbat, "parshat Pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Awful Truth: The Itamar Massacre & What It Means For Us All Temple Talk Once again, as it was just three years ago when 8 yeshiva boys were murdered over their holy texts, the month of Adar is accompanied by tragedy in Israel. Just days before the joyous festival of Purim, an unspeakable atrocity is committed in the beautiful, holy community of Itamar. How do our eyes register these horrible images? How do our minds explain such evil? What words can we offer to comfort the children who have survived, and ourselves as well? And how do we do Purim? I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Does the Heart of the Torah Begin with a Still Small Voice? Temple Talk The joy of Adar abounds as Temple Talk hosts Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman prepare for the awesome day of Purim which is quickly approaching. But what is true joy? Is Purim a time for revelry and ribaldry? Or is there something deeper going on? Our hosts consider the matter and decide that Purim is the most misunderstood holiday on the calendar. We begin reading the book of Leviticus this week, which our hosts call the "Book of G-d's Rights. " They find that like vanilla a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parashat Pekudei: Bringing it All Back Home Temple Talk This week we read Parashat Pekudei (literally, "reckonings ") and we shall be ushering in the second month of Adar. It's also the first of the four special Torah readings, parashat "Shekalim. " Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman connect the dots and examine the Torah portion of Pekudei, only to find to that it contains nothing new... but at the same time, it's brand new! It's that 'ol feeling of deja vu - we've read all this before. And we've built a house for the Creator befo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Homeopathic Approach to Idolatry Temple Talk In this week's amazing edition of Temple Talk, it's the father and son reunion, as Tzvi Richman returns to record a segment of our show and shares his unique wisdom and insights. What did Moses have in mind when he made the Children of Israel drink the pulverized gold of the golden calf?  Parashat Va'yakhel, the penultimate portion of the Book of Exodus, brings us closer to the epicenter of the Torah, on several levels. We've got the plan and it couldn't be made any cleare ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Copper Laver and the Righteous Women of Israel Temple Talk Parashat Ki Tisa leads us through the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs of Bnei Yisrael as the sublime work on the Holy Tabernacle is interrupted by the unbridled licentiousness of the golden calf. Moshe rabbenu - Moses our master - masterfully navigates a path fraught with cosmic cataclysmic pitfalls, as he castigates Israel and seeks their forgiveness from G-d. Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven describe Moshe's unique leadership qualities, and also the well-inte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Golden Calf & the Holy Temple: Self-Centered or G-d Centered? Temple Talk For 2000 years of exile the idea of really rebuilding the Holy Temple was something that was over the rainbow, inaccessible, "impossible " to achieve. So the whole topic of the Holy Temple became an allegory for other things. Now that Israel has returned to her land and the concept of rebuilding the Holy Temple is not only staggeringly achievable but also historically inevitable, it's time to retire the allegories and re-understand the commandment to build the Holy Temple on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parshat Teruma & the Holy Temple Today: The Ultimate Litmus Test Temple TalkParashat Teruma! It is the raison d'etre for everything that we do at the Temple Institute. "And you shall make for Me a Sanctuary " is G-d's desire...that we let Him in to this world. Rabbi Richman, just back from his never ending journey throughout the great United States, and stranded for four days in the snows of New Jersey, now reunited with his best friend Yitzchak Reuven, shares his experiences and reflects upon the "Temple Conundrum: " Who is the Holy Temple for, anyway ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parshat Teruma & the Holy Temple Today: The Ultimate Litmus Test Temple Talk Parashat Teruma! It is the raison d'etre for everything that we do at the Temple Institute. "And you shall make for Me a Sanctuary " is G-d's desire...that we let Him in to this world. Rabbi Richman, just back from his never ending journey throughout the great United States, and stranded for four days in the snows of New Jersey, now reunited with his best friend Yitzchak Reuven, shares his experiences and reflects upon the "Temple Conundrum: " Who is the Holy Temple for, anyw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Un-Holy Eating Temple Talk The very first sin in the Bible was Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.  Since our first sin was unholy eating, only its opposite can fix it. All of life and all of history are training us for one end: to learn to "eat" in holiness, to not let the world's pleasures wrench our attention from G-d (even for an instant). Eating to serve our 'appetites' and 'desires' lowers the spirituality in this world.  Eating to serve G-d, reciti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Un-Holy Eating Temple TalkThe very first sin in the Bible was Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.  Since our first sin was unholy eating, only its opposite can fix it. All of life and all of history are training us for one end: to learn to “eat” in holiness, to not let the world’s pleasures wrench our attention from G-d (even for an instant). Eating to serve our 'appetites' and 'desires' lowers the spirituality in this world.  Eating to serve G-d, reciting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Altar of Earth - The Measure of Man and an Approach to G-d Temple TalkWe go from the soaring heights of Mount Sinai to the roll-up-your-sleeves nitty-gritty of leaning and applying Torah laws and lessons to our everyday lives. Living in the absolute presence of G-d that prevailed at the SInai revelation is not something that we human beings are capable of sustaining or surviving. But we can and must treat one another in such a way that G-d will desire that His presence will dwell among us. The Torah reading of Mishpatim teaches us how to live peace ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Altar of Earth - The Measure of Man and an Approach to G-d Temple Talk We go from the soaring heights of Mount Sinai to the roll-up-your-sleeves nitty-gritty of leaning and applying Torah laws and lessons to our everyday lives. Living in the absolute presence of G-d that prevailed at the SInai revelation is not something that we human beings are capable of sustaining or surviving. But we can and must treat one another in such a way that G-d will desire that His presence will dwell among us. The Torah reading of Mishpatim teaches us how to live pea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tu BiShvat - the New Year of the Trees Temple Talk A discussion of the Tu BiShvat holiday. Plus, Jethro, Judaism's first Noahide and convert. With guest host Tzvi Richman. Rabbi Chaim Richman's speaking tour across the midwest and western United States is in full swing. For detailed information about his upcoming engagements, please click here: http://www.templeinstitute.org/Rabbi-Richman-2011-American-tour-schedule.htmWe look forward to seeing you and sharing with you the timely and essential message of the Song of R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tu BiShvat - the New Year of the Trees Temple TalkA discussion of the Tu BiShvat holiday. Plus, Jethro, Judaism's first Noahide and convert. With guest host Tzvi Richman.Rabbi Chaim Richman's speaking tour across the midwest and western United States is in full swing. For detailed information about his upcoming engagements, please click here:http://www.templeinstitute.org/Rabbi-Richman-2011-American-tour-schedule.htmWe look forward to seeing you and sharing with you the timely and essential message of the Song of Redem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Command of Time Temple Talk Led and fed by daily miracles as they entered the desert en route to the promised land of Canaan, Israel experiences many seeming lapses of faith. Yet they are known as the generation of knowledge and existed in a spiritual reality far higher than any other generation. What does this teach us about the nature of faith? The nature of man? This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: BESHALACH: The song of the Sea, sung by the children of Israel at t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Command of Time Temple TalkLed and fed by daily miracles as they entered the desert en route to the promised land of Canaan, Israel experiences many seeming lapses of faith. Yet they are known as the generation of knowledge and existed in a spiritual reality far higher than any other generation. What does this teach us about the nature of faith? The nature of man? This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: BESHALACH: The song of the Sea, sung by the children of Israel at the s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pharaoh & the 10 Plagues: What's free will got to do with it? Temple TalkG-d and Moshe team up to put the screws to Pharaoh. If free will defines our humanity, then how could G-d harden Pharaoh's heart, and divest him of his free will?  Or was in necessary in order to impose justice in the world? Rabbi Richman has kicked off his speaking tour of America, and filling his ample shoes in the Temple Talk studio is his first-born son, Tzvi, a storehouse of Torah knowledge in his own right.This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: BO: P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pharaoh & the 10 Plagues: What's free will got to do with it? Temple Talk G-d and Moshe team up to put the screws to Pharaoh. If free will defines our humanity, then how could G-d harden Pharaoh's heart, and divest him of his free will?  Or was in necessary in order to impose justice in the world? Rabbi Richman has kicked off his speaking tour of America, and filling his ample shoes in the Temple Talk studio is his first-born son, Tzvi, a storehouse of Torah knowledge in his own right.This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: BO: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get Ready for the 10 Plagues: "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet " Temple TalkSome people couldn't see or feel G-d's presence even if He came outand hit them over the head. Pharaoh, the absolute monarch of Egypt, isone of these people. In fact, it will take ten heavy hits to knocksome recognition into Pharaoh's head and his heart. Moses has beenchosen to be the messenger, although he feels highly under-qualified.G-d, however, is determined that Moses will be the man who deliversIsrael.Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven express their sadness at the passingof ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get Ready for the 10 Plagues: "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet " Temple Talk Some people couldn't see or feel G-d's presence even if He came outand hit them over the head. Pharaoh, the absolute monarch of Egypt, isone of these people. In fact, it will take ten heavy hits to knocksome recognition into Pharaoh's head and his heart. Moses has beenchosen to be the messenger, although he feels highly under-qualified.G-d, however, is determined that Moses will be the man who deliversIsrael. Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven express their sadness at the passin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Parshiot of the Exile are Days of Spiritual Rectification Temple TalkThe essence of time is Torah itself. As we begin the Book of Exodus, Yaakov, Yosef and their entire generation pass away, and the people of Israel multiply mightily in the land of Egypt...and hunker down into the exile. What happened within one brief generation that made the Egyptians forget their debt of gratitude to Yosef? Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven feel that as usual, it's a Jewish thing... responsibility always finds its way back to us.This week from the TEMPLE INSTITU ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Parshiot of the Exile are Days of Spiritual Rectification Temple Talk The essence of time is Torah itself. As we begin the Book of Exodus, Yaakov, Yosef and their entire generation pass away, and the people of Israel multiply mightily in the land of Egypt...and hunker down into the exile. What happened within one brief generation that made the Egyptians forget their debt of gratitude to Yosef? Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven feel that as usual, it's a Jewish thing... responsibility always finds its way back to us.This week from the TEMPLE INSTI ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Death of Ezra and Nehemiah & the Lack of True Jewish Leaders Temple TalkThe month of Tevet enters with the blessings of rain in the Land of Israel. But this month is traditionally considered to be a time of portent and distress, and features a public fast day, the 10th of Tevet, which commemorates a siege around Jerusalem that led to the destruction of the first Holy Temple. Is Jerusalem still besieged... or are its inhabitants just suffering from a siege mentality?The 8th and 9th days of Tevet used to be fast days, as well: For the day that the Tora ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Death of Ezra and Nehemiah & the Lack of True Jewish Leaders Temple Talk The month of Tevet enters with the blessings of rain in the Land of Israel. But this month is traditionally considered to be a time of portent and distress, and features a public fast day, the 10th of Tevet, which commemorates a siege around Jerusalem that led to the destruction of the first Holy Temple. Is Jerusalem still besieged... or are its inhabitants just suffering from a siege mentality? The 8th and 9th days of Tevet used to be fast days, as well: For the day tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I've Seen Fire & I've Seen Rain Temple Talk Yosef and the Great Reconciliation: Seeing Everything as the Mercy of Hashem What a week of extremes it's been: The joy of Chanuka against the backdrop of the devastating fire in Israel that claimed so many lives and did such horrendous damage. And finally, a little rain...and as we learn from the story of Choni Ha'Ma'agel, we never say "we've had enough rain! " so we continue to pray that the Land of Israel begins to receive bountiful rainfall. As we read of Yosef's r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I've Seen Fire & I've Seen Rain Temple Talk Yosef and the Great Reconciliation: Seeing Everything as the Mercy of HashemWhat a week of extremes it's been: The joy of Chanuka against the backdrop of the devastating fire in Israel that claimed so many lives and did such horrendous damage. And finally, a little rain...and as we learn from the story of Choni Ha'Ma'agel, we never say "we've had enough rain! " so we continue to pray that the Land of Israel begins to receive bountiful rainfall. As we read of Yosef's reunion wit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yosef in Egypt, Israel Today: The Amazing Jewish Art of Dreaming Temple Talk This week on Temple Talk: The Everly Brothers sure had it right. We just can't get our minds off of Yosef the dreamer and the role he played in saving his own family and the entire nation of Egypt from famine. It seems that ever since Yosef, Jews are great at dreaming... Keeping their own dreams alive, and fueling the dreams that keep the whole world alive as well. The nations of the world are all for Jewish dream-power, but once we've made their dreams come true, they'd prefer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yosef in Egypt, Israel Today: The Amazing Jewish Art of Dreaming Temple TalkThis week on Temple Talk: The Everly Brothers sure had it right. We just can't get our minds off of Yosef the dreamer and the role he played in saving his own family and the entire nation of Egypt from famine. It seems that ever since Yosef, Jews are great at dreaming... Keeping their own dreams alive, and fueling the dreams that keep the whole world alive as well. The nations of the world are all for Jewish dream-power, but once we've made their dreams come true, they'd prefer i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Pressures and Promises: Selling Joseph Again? Temple Talk Temple Talk explores the significance of the conflict between the righteous Joseph and his holy brothers... a conflict that still effects us to this very day. Will we ever fix the sin of the sale of Joseph? Can we rise to the challenge and just say no? NO! I mean, YES! It's time for the people of Israel to stop selling themselves short,and to stand up to the task that G-d appointed us for, no matter what is being used to bribe, threaten, cajole, intimate, or browbeat our people ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Pressures and Promises: Selling Joseph Again? Temple TalkTemple Talk explores the significance of the conflict between the righteous Joseph and his holy brothers... a conflict that still effects us to this very day. Will we ever fix the sin of the sale of Joseph? Can we rise to the challenge and just say no? NO! I mean, YES! It's time for the people of Israel to stop selling themselves short,and to stand up to the task that G-d appointed us for, no matter what is being used to bribe, threaten, cajole, intimate, or browbeat our people i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Pressures and Promises: Selling Joseph Again? Temple TalkTemple Talk explores the significance of the conflict between the righteous Joseph and his holy brothers... a conflict that still effects us to this very day. Will we ever fix the sin of the sale of Joseph? Can we rise to the challenge and just say no? NO! I mean, YES! It's time for the people of Israel to stop selling themselves short,and to stand up to the task that G-d appointed us for, no matter what is being used to bribe, threaten, cajole, intimate, or browbeat our people i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Impromptu "Underground " Wedding on the Temple Mount Temple TalkThe mysterious balance of light and darkness during the month of Kislev, and the eternal struggle of Ya'akov and Esav, as exemplified by Ya'akov's wrestling with an angel in this week's Torah portion of Vayishlach, are major themes of our Temple Talk program this week, as the United States once again pressures Israel to freeze Jewishbuilding in the Land of Israel. But despite Esavian machinations and maneuvers, the indefatigable Jewish spirit -- and strength -- is on the rise, as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Impromptu "Underground " Wedding on the Temple Mount Temple Talk The mysterious balance of light and darkness during the month of Kislev, and the eternal struggle of Ya'akov and Esav, as exemplified by Ya'akov's wrestling with an angel in this week's Torah portion of Vayishlach, are major themes of our Temple Talk program this week, as the United States once again pressures Israel to freeze Jewishbuilding in the Land of Israel. But despite Esavian machinations and maneuvers, the indefatigable Jewish spirit -- and strength -- is on the rise, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Impromptu "Underground " Wedding on the Temple Mount Temple TalkThe mysterious balance of light and darkness during the month of Kislev, and the eternal struggle of Ya'akov and Esav, as exemplified by Ya'akov's wrestling with an angel in this week's Torah portion of Vayishlach, are major themes of our Temple Talk program this week, as the United States once again pressures Israel to freeze Jewishbuilding in the Land of Israel. But despite Esavian machinations and maneuvers, the indefatigable Jewish spirit -- and strength -- is on the rise, as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yaakov's Prophecy on the Temple Mount Being Fulfilled Today Temple Talk The hosts of Temple Talk are transfixed by this week's Torah portion, Parashat Vayeitzei, and its connection to the Holy Temple  - past, present and future.This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: VAYEITZEI: " ...and he took some of the stones of the place and placed them at his head, and he lay down in that place. " (Genesis 28:11) What was "that place, " and what was the nature of those stones that Ya'akov gathered together, and which, upon hi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yaakov's Prophecy on the Temple Mount Being Fulfilled Today Temple TalkThe hosts of Temple Talk are transfixedby this week's Torah portion, Parashat Vayeitzei, and itsconnection to the Holy Temple  - past, present andfuture.This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLYTORAH PORTION: VAYEITZEI: " ...and he took some of the stones ofthe place and placed them at his head, and he lay down inthat place. " (Genesis 28:11) What was "that place, "and what was the nature of those stones that Ya'akov gatheredtogether, and which, upon his awakening ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yaakov's Prophecy on the Temple Mount Being Fulfilled Today Temple TalkThe hosts of Temple Talk are transfixedby this week's Torah portion, Parashat Vayeitzei, and itsconnection to the Holy Temple  - past, present andfuture.This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLYTORAH PORTION: VAYEITZEI: " ...and he took some of the stones ofthe place and placed them at his head, and he lay down inthat place. " (Genesis 28:11) What was "that place, "and what was the nature of those stones that Ya'akov gatheredtogether, and which, upon his awakening ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel's Tears for her Children Temple TalkYaakov's Birthright & Blessings, and Personal Responsibility for the Course of Human Events.How do we understand the perplexing struggle between Yaakov and Esav? What do these forces represent, and how is their struggle ultimately resolved? Parashat Toldot comes alive in this week's edition of Temple Talk as Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven examine the nature of Esav and the blessings the patriarch Yitzchak gave to his son Yaakov in the light of our modern world.Unesco decla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel's Tears for her Children Temple Talk Yaakov's Birthright & Blessings, and Personal Responsibility for the Course of Human Events.How do we understand the perplexing struggle between Yaakov and Esav? What do these forces represent, and how is their struggle ultimately resolved? Parashat Toldot comes alive in this week's edition of Temple Talk as Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven examine the nature of Esav and the blessings the patriarch Yitzchak gave to his son Yaakov in the light of our modern world.Unesco dec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel's Tears for her Children Temple TalkYaakov's Birthright & Blessings, and Personal Responsibility for the Course of Human Events.How do we understand the perplexing struggle between Yaakov and Esav? What do these forces represent, and how is their struggle ultimately resolved? Parashat Toldot comes alive in this week's edition of Temple Talk as Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven examine the nature of Esav and the blessings the patriarch Yitzchak gave to his son Yaakov in the light of our modern world.Unesco decla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vatican Synod: Princes of Darkness, Cloaked in Hypocrisy Temple Talk This week is Parashat Chayei Sarah, which opens up with our forefather Abraham's purchase of the "Double Cave " in Hebron. Why does Torah emphasize this so much, and what is our connection to this mysterious, ancient place? When it comes to Hebron, Jerusalem and Shechem the Torah cries out "Show me the money! " This week Temple Talk examines the Jewish people's connection ( "connection " is the very meaning of the word Hebron) to this ancient Jewish city, especially in the li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vatican Synod: Princes of Darkness, Cloaked in Hypocrisy Temple TalkThis week is Parashat Chayei Sarah, which opens up with our forefather Abraham's purchase of the "Double Cave " in Hebron. Why does Torah emphasize this so much, and what is our connection to this mysterious, ancient place? When it comes to Hebron, Jerusalem and Shechem the Torah cries out "Show me the money! " This week Temple Talk examines the Jewish people's connection ( "connection " is the very meaning of the word Hebron) to this ancient Jewish city, especially in the ligh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vatican Synod: Princes of Darkness, Cloaked in Hypocrisy Temple TalkThis week is Parashat Chayei Sarah, which opens up with our forefather Abraham's purchase of the "Double Cave " in Hebron. Why does Torah emphasize this so much, and what is our connection to this mysterious, ancient place? When it comes to Hebron, Jerusalem and Shechem the Torah cries out "Show me the money! " This week Temple Talk examines the Jewish people's connection ( "connection " is the very meaning of the word Hebron) to this ancient Jewish city, especially in the ligh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Flash: The Lives of Abraham and Isaac Temple Talk Remember Gary Hobson on TV's "Early Edition? " The guy who always got tomorrow's paper today? Well, Temple Talk goes one step better, but without the cat! Temple Talk is really a special news program, because we bring you tomorrow's news...yesterday. Does that make sense? What a twist! Every week when we study the weekly Torah portion we are really deciphering the news of the day, and these weeks of the book of Genesis which describe the lives of our holy forefathers Abraham ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Flash: The Lives of Abraham and Isaac Temple TalkRemember Gary Hobson on TV's "Early Edition? " The guy who always got tomorrow's paper today? Well, Temple Talk goes one step better, but without the cat! Temple Talk is really a special news program, because we bring you tomorrow's news...yesterday. Does that make sense? What a twist! Every week when we study the weekly Torah portion we are really deciphering the news of the day, and these weeks of the book of Genesis which describe the lives of our holy forefathers Abraham an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Flash: The Lives of Abraham and Isaac Temple TalkRemember Gary Hobson on TV's "Early Edition? " The guy who always got tomorrow's paper today? Well, Temple Talk goes one step better, but without the cat! Temple Talk is really a special news program, because we bring you tomorrow's news...yesterday. Does that make sense? What a twist! Every week when we study the weekly Torah portion we are really deciphering the news of the day, and these weeks of the book of Genesis which describe the lives of our holy forefathers Abraham an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar Cheshvan, Lech Lecha, the Rambam and the Faith Connection Temple Talk This week's Temple Talk is all about the theme of faith. The concept of faith shows up everywhere, all around us: It's the backdrop of everything associated with the month of Mar Cheshvan, as well as the Torah portions and the career of our illustrious forefather Abraham. And the great Maimonides' historic pilgrimage to the Temple Mount that took place this week, 835 years ago, was also an aspect of his undying faith that the Holy Temple would be rebuilt…as he was to write, y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar Cheshvan, Lech Lecha, the Rambam and the Faith Connection Temple TalkThis week’s Temple Talk is all about the theme of faith. The concept of faith shows up everywhere, all around us: It’s the backdrop of everything associated with the month of Mar Cheshvan, as well as the Torah portions and the career of our illustrious forefather Abraham. And the great Maimonides’ historic pilgrimage to the Temple Mount that took place this week, 835 years ago, was also an aspect of his undying faith that the Holy Temple would be rebuilt…as he was to writ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar Cheshvan, Lech Lecha, the Rambam and the Faith Connection Temple TalkThis week’s Temple Talk is all about the theme of faith. The concept of faith shows up everywhere, all around us: It’s the backdrop of everything associated with the month of Mar Cheshvan, as well as the Torah portions and the career of our illustrious forefather Abraham. And the great Maimonides’ historic pilgrimage to the Temple Mount that took place this week, 835 years ago, was also an aspect of his undying faith that the Holy Temple would be rebuilt…as he was to writ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome Mar Cheshvan, Month of Potential & the Third Holy Temple Temple TalkBeginning Again with B’reishith and Noach: Cycles of Creation & Destruction, Truth & Denial.Temple Talk welcomes the elusive and enigmatic month of Mar Cheshvan which arrives this week. Coming on the heels of the action-packed month of Tishrei, this month first appears as disappointing… until we begin to understand what can really happen if we are ready.As we reflect upon the Sukkot that was and its theme of water, and as we read this week’s Torah portion of Noah an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome Mar Cheshvan, Month of Potential & the Third Holy Temple Temple Talk Beginning Again with B'reishith and Noach: Cycles of Creation & Destruction, Truth & Denial.Temple Talk welcomes the elusive and enigmatic month of Mar Cheshvan which arrives this week. Coming on the heels of the action-packed month of Tishrei, this month first appears as disappointing… until we begin to understand what can really happen if we are ready.As we reflect upon the Sukkot that was and its theme of water, and as we read this week's Torah portion of Noah and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome Mar Cheshvan, Month of Potential & the Third Holy Temple Temple TalkBeginning Again with B’reishith and Noach: Cycles of Creation & Destruction, Truth & Denial.Temple Talk welcomes the elusive and enigmatic month of Mar Cheshvan which arrives this week. Coming on the heels of the action-packed month of Tishrei, this month first appears as disappointing… until we begin to understand what can really happen if we are ready.As we reflect upon the Sukkot that was and its theme of water, and as we read this week’s Torah portion of Noah an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Look Up and See the Stars Temple TalkTemple Talk’s Sukkot Extravaganza is just what you need to start the joyous festival of Sukkot. What is the secret of Sukkot joy? What were the original “booths” of the Children of Israel in the desert (Lev. 23: 43) - real booths, or Divine clouds of glory? Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman can hardly wait to take up residence in their respective temporary dwellings, to enjoy the rarified atmosphere of basking in the Divine Presence and feeling the enveloping ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Look Up and See the Stars Temple Talk Temple Talk's Sukkot Extravaganza is just what you need to start the joyous festival of Sukkot. What is the secret of Sukkot joy? What were the original "booths" of the Children of Israel in the desert (Lev. 23: 43) - real booths, or Divine clouds of glory? Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman can hardly wait to take up residence in their respective temporary dwellings, to enjoy the rarified atmosphere of basking in the Divine Presence and feeling the enveloping emb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Look Up and See the Stars Temple TalkTemple Talk’s Sukkot Extravaganza is just what you need to start the joyous festival of Sukkot. What is the secret of Sukkot joy? What were the original “booths” of the Children of Israel in the desert (Lev. 23: 43) - real booths, or Divine clouds of glory? Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman can hardly wait to take up residence in their respective temporary dwellings, to enjoy the rarified atmosphere of basking in the Divine Presence and feeling the enveloping ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May We Be Sealed in the Book of Life! Temple Talk Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman share their thoughts on preparing for the awesome experience of Yom Kippur and getting the most out of the day guaranteed by Hashem to give us a fresh start - if we utilize it properly. The real challenge, of course, starts the day after… What is the secret of a true ba'al teshuva - a "master of repentance? " How does one earn such a title? Can anybody do it? And what do our sages really mean when they teach that if one truly engages in repe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May We Be Sealed in the Book of Life! Temple TalkYitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman share their thoughts on preparing for the awesome experience of Yom Kippur and getting the most out of the day guaranteed by Hashem to give us a fresh start - if we utilize it properly. The real challenge, of course, starts the day after…What is the secret of a true ba’al teshuva - a "master of repentance? " How does one earn such a title? Can anybody do it? And what do our sages really mean when they teach that if one truly engages in repen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May We Be Sealed in the Book of Life! Temple TalkYitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman share their thoughts on preparing for the awesome experience of Yom Kippur and getting the most out of the day guaranteed by Hashem to give us a fresh start - if we utilize it properly. The real challenge, of course, starts the day after…What is the secret of a true ba’al teshuva - a "master of repentance? " How does one earn such a title? Can anybody do it? And what do our sages really mean when they teach that if one truly engages in repen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Special Appeal for the Children of Yitzchak and Talya Imas Temple TalkThe last Temple Talk of 5770 bids the year goodbye and welcomes in the coming year, may it bring blessings upon Israel and the entire world. What is our role in the cosmic saga of Rosh HaShana? What should we be praying for? How do we sweeten the judgments? And what is the significance of the shofar-blasts on this day, the birthday of the first man? Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman muse over these things and more as they prepare for the awesome-yet-joyous days of Rosh HaShana.Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Ready for the World to Begin & Finding Our Place in It Temple TalkWhile Rabbi Richman is off site, preparing spiritually for the upcoming Days of Awe, Yitzchak Reuven, manning the microphone, has what to say about our upcoming "day in court, " and about the great lenghts this week's double Torah reading of Nitzavim-Vayelech goes to in encouraging and preparing us for Rosh HaShana. Our choices may seem obvious, but they may be deceptively simple, all the same. This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: Nitzavim-Vayelech: "and yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Blessing and the Curse: The Meaning of Serving G-d with Joy Temple TalkHalf way through the month of Elul, our Temple Talk hosts want to pause to make sure they’ve got it right: Is our Elul experience helping to make our connection to G-d more real than ever? Fortunately, they discover that this week’s Torah portion of Ki Tavo is actually a concise guide to the themes of Elul – an Elul survival kit – that contains everything we need to know to break away from the rote and humdrum of our everyday existence and get back to where we belong; ful ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sneak Peak at Jim Long’s New Documentary, “Messiah Nation” Temple TalkFamed Egyptologist, film maker, author of “Riddle of the Exodus,” noted Noahide Jim Long joins Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven in the studio this week for a lively discussion on the universal dimensions of Elul and the ramifications of the “King in the Field” for the whole world. As the rumblings of war dominate the news in Israel and the shofar-blasts of Elul herald the war against the Evil Inclination, this week’s Torah portion of Ki Tetzei begins and ends with the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When the Honor of G-d is at Stake, We Must Act Temple TalkNews Flash: This Month, the King Makes a Surprise Visit to the Playing Field of Our Lives!  This week of parshat Shoftim begins the month of Elul, special time of Divine Will and the “emergency room” of the entire year. Temple Talk focuses on the spiritually-charged potential for individual and national growth during this unique month, as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman emphasize the personal aspects of the King’s month-long surprise visit to the field, where He conf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tale of Chutzpa, Idolatry and the Expropriation of Judaism Temple TalkThis week’s parsha, Re’eh, challenges us to “see” the difference between the blessing of listening to Hashem’s commandments, and the curse of ignoring them. The Torah makes it clear that the fate of our presence in the Land of Israel is hanging in the balance of this decision… a decision we all must make, both as individuals and as a nation. In this week’s edition of Temple Talk, Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven opine that this is exactly what is happening moment b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Click Your Heels Three Times and Say, There’s No Place Like Home Temple TalkDuring this week of the Torah reading of Eikev (Deut. 7: 12-11:25), as Rabbi Richman celebrates the 28th anniversary of his aliyah to the Land of Israel, Temple Talk hosts Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven wax eloquent and deliver a passionate plea – peppered with some begging, cajoling, and intimidation – to Diaspora Jewry: Let the words of this week’s parsha enter into your heart! Come home to Israel to live the lives that G-d intended for His people!Temple Talk Exclusive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Challenge of Tisha B’Av: From Mourning to Rebirth Temple TalkIn an unprecedented live edition of Temple Talk, Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven broadcast in the midst of the solemn fast day of Tisha B’Av, having just come down from a riveting experience of visiting the Temple Mount on this day, the day of the Holy Temple’s destruction. Our hosts grapple with their pain and the anguish of all of Israel and seek to understand the message of hope and encouragement that this day conveys. It is unquestionably up to us to fulfill the prophet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Challenge of Tisha B’Av: From Mourning to Rebirth Temple TalkIn an unprecedented live edition of Temple Talk, Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven broadcast in the midst of the solemn fast day of Tisha B’Av, having just come down from a riveting experience of visiting the Temple Mount on this day, the day of the Holy Temple’s destruction. Our hosts grapple with their pain and the anguish of all of Israel and seek to understand the message of hope and encouragement that this day conveys. It is unquestionably up to us to fulfill the prophet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebuild the Temple With Baseless Love: What Does it Really Mean? Temple TalkIn this thought-provoking edition of Temple Talk, Rabbi Richman provides an eye-witness report and analysis of the moving march around the Temple Mount that took place on the first day of the month of Av, with over 12,000 participants. What an awesome testimony to the deep connection the Jewish people has to the place of the Holy Temple! Now we just have to ask: Where do we go from here?As we move closer towards the solemn fast day of Tisha B’Av to be observed next Tuesday, Jul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebuild the Temple With Baseless Love: What Does it Really Mean? Temple TalkIn this thought-provoking edition of Temple Talk, Rabbi Richman provides an eye-witness report and analysis of the moving march around the Temple Mount that took place on the first day of the month of Av, with over 12,000 participants. What an awesome testimony to the deep connection the Jewish people has to the place of the Holy Temple! Now we just have to ask: Where do we go from here?As we move closer towards the solemn fast day of Tisha B’Av to be observed next Tuesday, Jul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mourning for the Holy Temple: Beyond Rote and Ritual Temple TalkReunited at last! Back from his speaking tour across America, Rabbi Richman shares some of his experiences with Yitzhak Reuven and talks about the amazing people he encountered on his travels. Traveling, and the things we all go through as we travel through this world, is also one of the themes of this week’s double Torah portion of Mattot and Masei, with which we conclude the book of Numbers. Parshat Masei opens with the concept of the power of a vow... um, like the one Prime ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mourning for the Holy Temple: Beyond Rote and Ritual Temple TalkReunited at last! Back from his speaking tour across America, Rabbi Richman shares some of his experiences with Yitzhak Reuven and talks about the amazing people he encountered on his travels. Traveling, and the things we all go through as we travel through this world, is also one of the themes of this week’s double Torah portion of Mattot and Masei, with which we conclude the book of Numbers. Parshat Masei opens with the concept of the power of a vow... um, like the one Prime ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Weeks of Mourning, But it Doesn't Have to Be This Way! Temple TalkThe annual three weeks of mourning for the Holy Temple begins today, but it could end tomorrow if we had the gumption to make a real change in the world. The Bnei Yissaschar reveals the vast potential for spiritual loftiness and liberation that is hard wired into the very spiritual fabric of the two months of Tammuz and Av. We're running out of excuses for our inaction. Perhaps it's time to up the dose of our anti-passivity, anti-complacency and anti-sense-of-helplessness three-w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Weeks of Mourning, But it Doesn't Have to Be This Way! Temple TalkThe annual three weeks of mourning for the Holy Temple begins today, but it could end tomorrow if we had the gumption to make a real change in the world. The Bnei Yissaschar reveals the vast potential for spiritual loftiness and liberation that is hard wired into the very spiritual fabric of the two months of Tammuz and Av. We're running out of excuses for our inaction. Perhaps it's time to up the dose of our anti-passivity, anti-complacency and anti-sense-of-helplessness three-w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilaam the Prophet and the Objectification of Israel, Then & Now Temple TalkBilaam, a man in possession of tremendous intellectual and spiritual capacity sought to bend right and wrong to serve his own ends and the ends of Balak,  a fellow hater of Israel. Thinking very highly of himself Bilaam imagined he could outwit G-d and put and end to Israel. To the world's discredit, he has many followers today. The coming redemption and the breaking of the heat wave! Speaking only good about the land of Israel and the people of Israel during this fateful mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bilaam the Prophet and the Objectification of Israel, Then & Now Temple TalkBilaam, a man in possession of tremendous intellectual and spiritual capacity sought to bend right and wrong to serve his own ends and the ends of Balak,  a fellow hater of Israel. Thinking very highly of himself Bilaam imagined he could outwit G-d and put and end to Israel. To the world's discredit, he has many followers today. The coming redemption and the breaking of the heat wave! Speaking only good about the land of Israel and the people of Israel during this fateful mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parashat Chukat Temple TalkAnd the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth without the camp, and she shall be slain before his face. And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her bloo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parashat Chukat Temple TalkAnd the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth without the camp, and she shall be slain before his face. And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her bloo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Limits of Wisdom: Where does it Begin? Where does it End? Temple TalkThe enigmatic process of the Red Heifer, which renders the impure pure, leads us on a spiritual odyssey that begins with wonderment, and proceeds to acceptance of G-d's will, wisdom and faith. No wonder its waters are required before entering the Holy Temple. Yitzchak Reuven gets a surprise call from his very best friend, Rabbi Chaim Richman, who is raising  a lot of dust and spirits as he makes his way across the great state of Texas, meeting along the way true men and wome ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Limits of Wisdom: Where does it Begin? Where does it End? Temple TalkThe enigmatic process of the Red Heifer, which renders the impure pure, leads us on a spiritual odyssey that begins with wonderment, and proceeds to acceptance of G-d's will, wisdom and faith. No wonder its waters are required before entering the Holy Temple. Yitzchak Reuven gets a surprise call from his very best friend, Rabbi Chaim Richman, who is raising  a lot of dust and spirits as he makes his way across the great state of Texas, meeting along the way true men and wome ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A Tale of Two Levis Temple TalkWhile Rabbi Chaim Richman is out spreading unique Torah insights as he makes his way across New Mexico and Texas, Yitchak Reuven is left all by his lonesome in the studio, where he takes on Korach, the man who would be king, (that is, if he had it his way). Getting ready for the month of Tammuz, a month of awesome potential for good, if only we begin to appreciate the sublime beauty of the holy land of Israel, and shout it out for all to hear!This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A Tale of Two Levis Temple TalkWhile Rabbi Chaim Richman is out spreading unique Torah insights as he makes his way across New Mexico and Texas, Yitchak Reuven is left all by his lonesome in the studio, where he takes on Korach, the man who would be king, (that is, if he had it his way). Getting ready for the month of Tammuz, a month of awesome potential for good, if only we begin to appreciate the sublime beauty of the holy land of Israel, and shout it out for all to hear!This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Free Gaza Flotilla, Parashat Shelach and the Jewish Problem Temple TalkIt's no holds barred in this fast moving episode of Temple Talk, as Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven seek to understand the saga of the Israel's naval commando's take-over of the Gaza Flotilla in the light of the eternal, staggering truths found in this week's Torah portion of Parashat Shelach. What does this terrorist-funded, terror-motivated provocation against Israeli sovereignty have to do with the sin of the spies of the desert? And what's it got to do with the Holy Temple? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mosque at Ground Zero: The Pattern of Islamic Conquest Temple TalkYitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman talk about the generation of the desert, described in the book of Numbers. They made a lot of mistakes and at times seemed to have had a "bad attitude " about the Land of Israel. In this week's Torah portion of Behalotcha, the "rabble " even complained about the food that G-d Himself was feeding them, in preparation for entering into the Land! Who is this motley crew, and what is their problem? They're still around, complaining ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mosque at Ground Zero: The Pattern of Islamic Conquest Temple TalkYitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman talk about the generation of the desert, described in the book of Numbers. They made a lot of mistakes and at times seemed to have had a "bad attitude " about the Land of Israel. In this week's Torah portion of Behalotcha, the "rabble " even complained about the food that G-d Himself was feeding them, in preparation for entering into the Land! Who is this motley crew, and what is their problem? They're still around, complaining a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shavuot and the Holy Temple: Bringing it All Back Home Temple TalkIn an especially inspirational Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman get revved up for Shavuot, and talk about what it really means for each one of us to really receive the Torah anew on this special holiday... this means you! Of course, the manner in which Shavuot, the Festival of the Giving of the Torah, is celebrated in the Holy Temple is completely different than what we are all accustomed to. What is the secret that connects the Torah itself to the first fruits of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beginning the Book of Numbers: Life in the Desert Temple TalkYitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman interview Pastor Kenneth Rawson from Edison, New Jersey. Pastor Rawson is an outspoken opponent on dividing Jerusalem, and shares his insights on American policies towards Israel, as well as his position against Christian attempts to convert Jews.Food for thought on Jerusalem Day, the day on which were uttered the immortal words, "The Temple Mount is in our Hands! " Is it really in our hands today? Rabbi Richman shares his experience of the rece ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When is it Time to Pray, and When is it Time to Act? Temple TalkAs we prepare to finish the book of Leviticus with this week's double Torah reading of parshiot Behar and Bechukoti, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman reflect upon the timeliness and the Heavenly-ordained message of each week's Torah portion. What messages are being broadcast to us this week? And what is the true meaning of the "admonitions " found in parashat Bechukoti?As we continue counting the days of the Omer and prepare for the upcoming month of Sivan and the giving of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Month of Iyar: Healing, Preparation, and Building the Temple Temple TalkIn a gala Israeli Independence Temple Talk, our hosts reflect on the Divine gift of the State of Israel at 62. And let there be no confusion: our state of Israel is a gift, a manifestation of G-d's love for the Jewish people. Isn't it time they realized that and came home? Quit stalling! And Israel's presence is a gift which ensures Redemption for the entire world. Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven reflect on all this and more, and also ask why the month of Iyar, the month of hea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern-Day ‘Negaim’ Afflictions in the Walls of our Home Temple TalkThis week’s Temple Talk focuses on the mysterious, mystical ailment discussed in this week’s double Torah portions of Tazria and Metzora, known as tzarat. This was not a physical sickness, but rather a Divinely-orchestrated wake-up call; a direct manifestation of G-d’s love for His people Israel and a prophetic experience. “If only we had such prophetic insights into life today,” people say. “Ah, but we do,” say our hosts. Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven discuss a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mysterious Yitro: You Can Run, but You Can't Hide Temple TalkIn a riveting edition of Temple Talk, Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven explore some fascinating Midrashic traditions about the early lives of both Moshe and Yitro, and explore the theme that emerges: Each one of us must develop the courage to change, in order to become the person we could really be. And isn't that the goal of the giving of the Torah and the Ten Commandments, which happens in this week's Torah reading of Yitro? It's all about change... on an individual, national, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earthquake in Haiti and the Age-Old Dilemma of Human Suffering - Part 1 Temple TalkThe month of Shevat is upon us, traditionally a time for renewal, rectifying sins and receiving the wisdom of the Torah. Why is the “bucket” this month’s ruling constellation? Tune into this week’s Temple Talk as our hosts discuss the promise and potential of this month of Shevat, the Torah portions of Va’era and Bo, the weeks of Shovi’im, Moshe’s recitation of the last book of the Torah, and the mysteries of the last of the Ten Plagues. Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earthquake in Haiti and the Age-Old Dilemma of Human Suffering - Part 2 Temple Talk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website