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Rachav: Profile in Repentance, part I
Bat Melech, with Rena Richman.
The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on October 15, 2008, (Tishrei 16, 5769).
Rachav: Profile in Repentance, Part I: Rachav, the woman of “ill-repute” who lived in the wall of Jericho not only hosted the two spies sent by Joshua, but used the opportunity their presence afforded her to repent of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way of G-dBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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HaShem desired to reveal His will to man, and therefore prepared a process of revelation through which He makes Himself known to mortal man in the physical world. Through this process, HaShem reveals whatever He desires, whether it be His secrets and mysteries, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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Rav K’tina asserts that the world is destined to exist six thousand years. In the seventh millennium it will be obliterated (changed), when the world of this verse (Isaiah 2:11) will be fulfilled, “HaShem alone will be mighty on that day”… There is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: Ha’azinuLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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“Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!” (Deuteronomy 31:2) The word of G-d from Mount Sinai speaks to us constantly, day and night, calling upon us [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Yom Kippur ExperienceLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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The sublime joy of repentance. Seen by some from the “outside” as a day of doom and gloom, Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, is described by our sages as the happiest day of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way of G-dBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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Repentance removes the blemish in precisely the same manner. Power to act is taken away from the particular Force of Corruption (that parallels the sin), and therefore, the influence of holiness is brought back and appropriately transmitted.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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“As the new heavens and the new earth which I am making will endure before me,’ say HaShem, ’so your children and your name will endure.’”
From “Mysteries of the Creation” by Rabbi Dovid Brown. We are studying from the following pages: pg. 181–185.
To [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: VayelechLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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“And I will surely hide My face in that day.” (Deuteronomy 31:18) When we transgress our covenant with G-d it is our own feelings of remorse and self disappointment that create a distance between ourselves and G-d, causing [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rosh HaShana SpecialLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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On Rosh HaShana the book of life is opened before G-d, King of all creation. But it is our actions and intentions that determine whether our names wil be enscribed within the book of life, or [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: NitzavimLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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“Even if you are dispersed in the ends of heaven, from there will HaShem your G-d gather you in, and from there He will take you.” (Deuteronomy 30:4) Parashat Nitzavim, the final parasha before Rosh HaShana, contains within [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chamber of the Hearth, Part IILight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter five: Details of the Chamber of the Hearth, the dormitory quarters of the priests attending to the Temple service.
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Man and creation are composed of 248 basic components, each rectified via the 248 words of the “Shema”. HaShem daily renews the Divine Influences which sustain all of creation and sends a new Influence particular to each day of His creation. The significance [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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The first member of mankind was Odom (Adam). His name speaks for itself, for the word means “man” (not in the sense of an “adult male,” for the Hebrew word “Odom” has no connotation of sex or age (Bereishit 1:27, 5:1,2 and Mattos, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: Beha’alotchaLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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The children of Israel build the tabernacle which sits still when covered by the cloud but the lifting of the cloud is a sign that it is time to move on. So too, in our own lives. We [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of Ruth: Part IIBat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on June 25, 2008, (Sivan 22, 5768).
Ruth, the story of the Moabite princess who attached herself to the Jewish nation and the G-d of Israel, is traditionally read in synagogues on the upcoming festival of Shavuoth. Rena [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shavuoth SpecialLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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The festival which celebrates the receiving of Torah on Mount Sinai and the bringing of first fruits to the Holy Temple: Fulfilling Torah through both study and through the work of our hands. Giving back what [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way of G-dBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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In Elokim’s creation, both above and below, including both those who act and those who are acted upon; whether HaShem/Elokim;s Kingdom is recognized or not, however, obviously depends completely on the deeds of man in the world below.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe Chaim [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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What fault did HaShem/Elokim find with the builders of the city and tower? The Torah does not specify any sin. Moreover, their motives appear to be laudatory. They wanted to ensure that mankind would remain a united people, so even as the descendants [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: NasoLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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“May G-d bless you and keep you; May G-d make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; May G-d lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.” (Numbers 6:24-26) Peace - shalom [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chamber of the Hearth, Part ILight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter five: Leaving the Women’s Court, we head north and west to the Chamber of the Hearth, the dormitory quarters of the priests attending to the Temple service.
(To learn more [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of RuthBat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on June 11, 2008, (Sivan 8, 5768).
Ruth, the story of the Moabite princess who attached herself to the Jewish nation and the G-d of Israel, is traditionally read in synagogues on the upcoming festival of Shavuoth. Rena [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of Ruth: Part IBat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on June 11, 2008, (Sivan 8, 5768).
Ruth, the story of the Moabite princess who attached herself to the Jewish nation and the G-d of Israel, is traditionally read in synagogues on the upcoming festival of Shavuoth. Rena [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way of G-dBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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In Elokim’s creation, both above and below, including both those who act and those who are acted upon; whether HaShem/Elokim;s Kingdom is recognized or not, however, obviously depends completely on the deeds of man in the world below.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe Chaim [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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HaShem smelled the pleasant odor (of the sacrifice Noach made) and HaShem/Elokim said to Himself, “I will not again curse the earth because of man, for the inclinations of man are evil from his youth, and I will not again strike all living [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: BemidbarLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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Bemidbar - the book of the desert - the setting G-d chose for the transmission of Torah, a setting void of ego and whose vastness echoes G-d’s infinite being.
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Bemidbar (Numbers 11:3-4:20)
Parashat Bemidbar is read on Shabbat:
Iyar [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Women’s Court, Part IILight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter five: Rabbi Richman continues to explore the four corners of the Women’s Court, the chambers contained therein, and the purposes they serve.
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Among thw things that one must understand is the concept that HaShem/Elokim is King over all His creation. Namely that HaShem/Elokim(s) existence is not dependent upon anything else that exists, and neither is HaShem/Elokim(s) existence comparable to anything else.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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HaShem/Elokim first determined to destroy all living things and to reduce the vigor of the earth. That can be readily accomplished the way the previous worlds were destroyed, or, pehaps by a universal conflagration. But HaShem/Elokim was determined to preserve Noach and his family. Therefore [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: BechukotaiLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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Walking in the way of G-d’s statutes: Which statutes? Those by virtue of which the world exists! By walking with these statutes and not against them, we can tap into the roots of G-d’s world and avail ourselves [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Women’s Court, Part ILight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
Weekly series with new teachings available every Thursday.
Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter five: The history and intention of the Women’s Court, and the various chambers that functioned within its walls.
(To learn more about the structure of the Holy Temple, please visit [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Open Letter to President George W. Bush on the occasion of his visit to the holy city of JerusalemThe historic document, known as “Megillat Bush - The Bush Scroll”, written and signed by the New Jewish Congress, The Sanhedrin, and The Holy Temple and Temple Mount Movements was presented to President George W. Bush upon his arrival in the land of Israel on the second day of the Hebrew month of Shvat 5768, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel and Leah: Part IIBat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on May 28, 2008, (Iyar 23, 5768).
The two sisters are determined to fulfill their roles as the matriarchs of the Jewish nation, but in order to do so, must make difficult and selfless choices.
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Bereishit 8:22, “As long as the earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.” Sforno explains: “They ‘will not cease,’ but will continue in this unnatural condition which Elokim brought since the mabbul. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way of G-dBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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The two obligations that we must fullfill everyday are thr recital of the Shema and the daily prayer service. When the Holy Temple (Beit ha-Mikdash ) stood, the daily and additional sacrifices were also included among the daily observances.
From the “RaMCHaL”–Derech HaShem–Rabbi Moshe [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: BeharLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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G-d’s multifaceted creation: the secrets of creation and redemption as embodied in the commandment and observance of the shnat shmitta - the sabbatical year.
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Behar (Leviticus 25:1-26:2)
Parashat Behar is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 12, 5768/May 17, 2008
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The month of Iyar is a particularly propitious time for increasing Torah knowledge. Being the month in which the manna began to fall in the desert, it is likewise a propitious time for realizing that G-d [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way of G-dBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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When one stands in awe before HaShem’s, Greatness, they are purified of the darkness associated with their physical body, and is enveloped by the Divine Presence. The greater this awe, the greater the purification and envelopment. Feeling awe of HaShem is particularly important [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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The third world, was the Dor haMabbul, the contemporaries of Noach who were destroyed by the deluge. It was in this generation that had a most uncommon environment. The sages (Sanhedrin 108A) ascribe to them the fortune depicted by Job 21:8-13, as the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: EmorLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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The spiritual transition between slavery and freedom, emancipation and nationhood which Israel undergoes between her liberation on the 15th of Nisan and the receiving of Torah at Sinai seven weeks later, is captured in the twin commandments concerning the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gates to the CourtyardLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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Maimonides’ Laws of the Chosen House, chapter five: The dimensions and qualities of the inner courtyards, and the gates that lead into them.
(To learn more about the structure of the Holy Temple, please visit our Illustrated [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel and Leah: Part IBat Melech, with Rena Richman.
Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on May 14, 2008, (Iyar 9, 5768).
Two sisters, Rachel and Leah, need to come to grips with the roles G-d has given them, while giving birth to and shaping the Jewish nation.
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The study of Torah is an absolutely necessary matter, for without it, one cannot do what one is supposed to do, how can one do it? In addition, however, Torah study in its own right is an end itself, for it plays a very [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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Until the third day of creation the earth was level and as featureless as a plain, and water covered the whole earth. When Elokim said, “The waters shall gather,” the mountains and hills arose from the ends of earth and spread over the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weekly Torah Portion: KedoshimLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman
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You shall be holy; for I the L-rd your G-d am holy.” How do we become holy like He is holy? By placing limits on our own human nature we are able to overcome our own potential pitfalls, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way of G-dBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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Serving Elokim involves two elements: study and observance. Observances are divided into four categories: those that are continuous and constant; those that are performed once a day or a fixed number of times per day; that are periodic; those are occasional or circumstantial. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Passover Special: Faith and FreedomLight to the Nations – with Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute.
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Passover is the New Year of faith - faith leading to freedom.”
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Bat Melech teachings appear every second Wednesday. The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on April 30, 2008, (Nisan 25, 5768).
By taking the spiritual well-being of her son Jacob, (Yaakov), into her own hands, Rivka shaped and guaranteed the the future of the Israelite nation.
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Another difference between Moshe and all other prophets was that all others could not voluntarily initiate a prophetic vision, but could only do so when Elokim willed to bring His Influence to bear on them. Moshe, on the other hand, could do so [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysteries of the CreationBiblical Faith - with Sam Peak
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We now begin to understand the source of skulls of ape-men discovered by paleontologists who describe them as “species” ancestral to man. The Sages tell us, we now recognize, not that men evolved from these quasi-apes, but, on the contrary, that the ape-men [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | |