Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Noah the Compassionate: Sleepless on the Ark The Month of MarCheshvan: Water, Faith, Disappointment… and The Best is Yet to Come In this week’s Torah portion of Noach, we read about the Generation of the Flood, wh…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Welcoming 5777, The Year of Strength Bob Dylan and Rabbi Richman: How Many Ears Must One Man Have Before He Can Hear People Cry? After the holiday hiatus, this week’s Temple Talk, the first of the new year 5777, w…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Nitzavim: Standing Upright to Receive a New Light The Parashat Nitzavim-Rosh HaShana Nexus: Choosing to Choose Life Join Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman for this week’s special pre-Rosh Hashana edition of …

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Parashat Ki Tavo: Tell it to the World Parashat Ki Tavo and Current Events: Our Connection to the Land of Israel and Israel’s Message to the World Midway through the holy and transformative month of Elul, Israel h…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Parashat Ki Tetzei: The Challenge to See Holiness Parashat Ki Tetzei, Going to Battle, and the Month of Elul: We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us The world we are born into is a battle field and it is up to us to …

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Understanding the Noise-Reduction Shofar of Elul The Challenge of the Month of Elul: Recalibrating Our Humanity and Meeting the King in the Field As we begin the month of Elul, the Torah portion of parashat Shofti…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Parshat Re’eh & Free Choice: Believing is Seeing “You are Children of Hashem your G-d”… So Start Acting Like It! This week’s Torah portion of parashat Re’eh, literally ‘see,’ begins with Moshe’s unique exhortation…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Parshat Eikev: Program for Survival – and Success G-d’s Eyes are Upon the Land of Israel All Year Round This week’s Torah portion of parashat Eikev emphasizes the role of keeping the commandments as the key to Isr…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Tisha B’Av on the Temple Mount: All-Time Record Tu B’Av, The Ultimate Love Story: It’s Getting Better All the Time This week we will mark the ‘unsung’ holiday of Tu B’Av, an ancient holiday representing an unparal…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Whole New World: Why We Mourn for the Holy Temple News Flash Just In From the Prophet Haggai: “…Because of My Temple which is ruined, while you run, each to his own house.” As we enter the final countdown towards …

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: A Comfy Cushion for Tisha B’Av Mourning? The Temple Institute Establishes the World’s First School for Training Kohanim for the Service of the Holy Temple This week those in the Diaspora catch up with their brethr…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: The Three Weeks: Readying to Rise Up and Rebuild Take a Look Out Your Window: The World Needs the Holy Temple Now More Than Ever! With the observance of the Fast of Tammuz 17 which was marked this past Sunday, the…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Tammuz 17: The Meaning of the Cycle of Mourning Political Correctness Gone Mad: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil… But There is Evil All Around Us This week’s edition of Temple Talk grapples head on with th…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: From Bilam to UNESCO: The Fine Art of Cursing Jews Hallel Yaffa Ariel of Blessed Memory Unites All of Israel Around the Temple Mount Just back from a speaking tour in the USA, Rabbi Richman reunites with Yitzchak …

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Triumph Over Tragedy: Building the Holy Temple and Safeguarding Our Homes From Terror Are the Temple Mount Police Finally Stepping up to the Plate Only to be Stymied by The Prime Minister? Despite being told that …

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Korach, the Demagogue of Anarchy and Would-Be Usurper of the Priesthood Yitro the Pathfinder and the Wayward Hearts of the Spies who Went to Look for the Promised Land This week Yitzchak Reuven is alone at the mik…

The generation of the desert paid a high price for their lack of belief in themselves, but received the sweetest and most profound affirmation of G-d’s belief in them: the promise that their children will indeed enter the land, build the Holy Temple, and share time and space in the promised land and at the chosen place with the one true eternal G-d…

Beha’alotcha and the art of complaining: The professional complainers in the desert turned complaining from a spontaneous response to discomfort into a premeditated attempt to change fate and flee from destiny, grumbling about everything from “my feet hurt” to “I don’t wanna eat my manna!” Beha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16) Parashat Beha’alotcha is r…

From the Levitical responsibilities in the Tabernacle, to the ‘wayward’ woman and the Nazir, to the priestly blessing first uttered by Aharon, to the identical gifts to G-d brought to the altar by the heads of all twelve tribes, parashat Naso is all about G-d’s embracing His people and all the challenges that face them day after day. Naso (Numbers …

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Mysteries of Parashat Beha’alotcha The Book of Numbers, the Orlando Massacre and Post-Shavuot Thoughts: What Does it Really Mean to Receive the Torah? After seven weeks of anticipation, this week all of Israel cel…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Shavuot Special: Get Ready to Receive the Torah! The Festival of Shavuot, the Giving of the Torah and the Holy Temple: A Celebration of the Land of Israel Chodesh Tov! Happy new month of Sivan! This week’s edition…

Biblical Faith – with Shmuel “Sam” Peak Duties of the Heart: Humility The story is told of a king before whom a man was sentenced, and a whip was brought for punishment. The king said to the man, “As HaShem lives, were it not it not for my great anger with you, I would have taken strict revenge against anger with you, I would have taken strict reve…

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: President Rivlin and Parashat Bamidbar Hard-Hitting Straight Talk About Israel’s National ‘Symbols,’ and Israel’s National Purpose This week in the Land of Israel, we begin to read the book of Numbers, which opens…

The book of Leviticus concludes with a stark but promising choice: Either regard life as void of meaning, empty of purpose, vacant, meaningless and futile and discover that life regards you likewise, and suffer the torturous consequences, or “follow My [G-d’s] statutes and observe My commandments and perform them,” and see the purpose and holiness …

Temple Talk is a weekly internet radio webcast with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute. This week features: Iyar and the Sanctification of Earthiness The Blessings and Admonition of Parashat Bechukotai: The Reality Test of our Lives This week has hosted three important dates in this special month of Iyar: The Biblically…