Can we do תפילות prayers for:
Rabbi Chaim Richman and The Temple Institute?
So that through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?
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 "Do Not Fear" (Deuteronomy 3:22) Av 8, 5772/July 27, 2012
We
begin this Shabbat the reading of the fifth and final book of the
Chumash - the Five Books of Moses. Deuteronomy - Devarim in
Hebrew, which literally means "words" is the book of the words of
Moshe. Told by G-d that he will not be entering the
land of Israel with the rest of his people, Moshe spent the final
thirty seven days of his life on earth speaking to the children of Israel.
Nobody knew Israel like Moshe knew Israel.
He knew their strengths, their weaknesses, their virtues and their follies. He knew he wouldn't be there to physically lead them into the land of Israel, so he spent his final thirty seven days preparing them morally, emotionally and spiritually to enter the land. His soliloquy was part chastisement for past wrong deeds, and also for future goings astray that, because he knew them so well, he understood that they were to bound to commit. He reviewed commandments that he had already conveyed to them at Mount Sinai, because learning things a second and a third and a fourth time is the only way to deepen our knowledge and strengthen our commitment to the law. He introduced to them new commandments, many of the specifically having to do with the business of conquering the land of Israel, building within its borders towns and cities founded on justice and compassion, and militarily defending the new nation from its enemies. He taught them the shma - Israel's ultimate statement of fidelity to HaShem, and he described to them the beauty and the majesty of the land of Israel, the land that G-d promised to their forefathers many generations before they were born. All this was to ensure that they could weather any storm, measure up to any challenge and overcome any enemy who would one day seek their harm.
Deuteronomy is Moshe's book and we learn more about who
Moshe really is in this book than in the three books which preceded
it. In this book Moshe is speaking with his own voice, and from his
heart he is expressing his love and concern for his people. The very same
people that complained to him, at times railed against him and at times
rebelled against him; the people that confided in him and stood before him
in judgement. The people who let him down on more than one occasion and the
people who, when it counted, when it really counted, rose to heights untold
and unparalleled by any generation before or since. So what words did
Moshe choose while striving to convey his most heartfelt hopes and
dreams and concerns for his people? The book of Deuteronomy is thirty four
chapters long and full of many words, but one word which Moshe uses
again and again is the word for fear. In truth, there is more than one word
for fear in Hebrew and Moshe makes use of them all. One could argue,
based on the book of Deuteronomy, that Moshe's greatest concern for
his people be that they never be afraid.
"You
shall not fear any man, for the judgment is upon HaShem." (Deuteronomy
1:17) "Behold, HaShem, your G-d, has set the
land before you; go up and possess it, as HaShem,
G-d of your fathers has spoken to you; you shall
neither fear nor be dismayed." (ibid 1: 21) Of Og king of
Bashan "And HaShem said to me, "Do not fear him, for I have given him,
all his people, and his land into your hand." (ibid 3:2) "Do not
fear them, for it is HaShem, your G-d, Who is
fighting for you." (ibid 3:22)
These
verses are all from parashat Devarim alone, but Moshe's
concern about fear repeats itself throughout all of Deuteronomy. Why?
Moshe has already experienced the hostile reception from Edom
and Moav and Midian. He sent messengers ahead pledging not to
stray from the straight path, not to drink the water from their wells nor
take from the produce of their fields. In spite of his gestures, or perhaps
because of them, Israel was met with implacable hostility. Thirty nine
years of relative peace and quiet had come to an end. A new era of conflict
had begun. So close to their goal of crossing the river and entering the
land, things are beginning to heat up. It becomes clear to Moshe
that the nations of the world are not about to step aside and allow israel
to enter her land, to fulfill her destiny. On the contrary, the closer
Israel gets to achieving her goals the stronger and more frenetic becomes
the opposition. What threat did Israel pose to Moav, that
Balak hired Bilaam to curse her? What was it that possessed
Edom not to allow Israel to peacefully pass through her borders?
Because the turbulence surrounding and swirling around Israel grows only
more intense the closer Israel comes to fulfilling G-d's
promise, any concession to fear, any hesitation or straying from the
straight path is a deferral of Israel's destiny and creates a dissonance
between G-d's will and Israel's actions.
To be
sure, Moshe was referring to the fear of military battle, but not
just. As the verse cited above suggests, we must also not fear pursuing
justice, in spite of all the temptations to cut corners and divert or eyes.
We have also our internal enemies that seek to divert us from our path.
Moshe recalls the sin of the spies who saw themselves as
grasshoppers in the eyes of the inhabitants. They too succumbed to fear,
and the ramifications of their failing reverberates throughout all of
Israel's history, as we are all so cognizant of during these three weeks of
mourning and sombre contemplation over the loss of the Holy Temple. As a
result of the sin of the spies we were told not to stray after our hearts
or after our eyes, because the stirrings of our hearts and the imaginations
of our eyes are also a manifestation of fear of adhering to the true
path.
We are
currently on the eve of Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the
destruction of Israel's first and second Holy Temple. This three week
period is known as Bein Hameitzarim - between the narrow straits.
The narrow straits is not simply a description of the constricted
consciousness and diminished sense of well-being that we feel in light of
the Holy Temple's destruction, it also provides for us a paradigm of how to
overcome our fear and recapture our destiny. Rabbi Nachman of Bretzlov,
many thousands of years after Moshe's final words to Israel were
spoken, made a statement that embodied Moshe's message: "The
world is a very narrow bridge, but the most important thing is not to fear
at all!" Yes, our entire world is a narrow bridge - a narrow strait -
and if we allow ourselves to be led by our fears we will soon digress from
the straight path and fall into the abyss. But if we keep our focus forward
and maintain our footing, we will discover that our final destination is
not far, far away, but very, very close. What better time to learn this
lesson than during the three weeks of Bein
Hameitzarim.
[This very lesson was given a new twist this week. It appears
that the people of Egypt took great umbrage at the Temple Institute's The Children Are Ready video, as a
photograph of their newly elected Moslem Brotherhood President, Mohamed
Morsi appeared on the newspaper which drops to the ground at the climax of
the video. The Egyptian masses expressed their rage at this "insult,"
bombarding the Temple Institute's Youtube channel with thousands of hate
filled comments, (which we blocked). The great insult even made its way to
Morsi's inner circle. (Click here for a
news item.) Not only were we not deterred by the many threats that we
received, but when the news became public, the reaction of all concerned
was utter scorn and dismissal of Mosri's alleged
insult.]
Once
this lesson has been learned and we heed the words of Moshe, "Do not
fear them, for it is HaShem, your G-d, Who is
fighting for you," (ibid 3:22) we will stop grasping at mythologized
Holy Temples of fire descending from heaven, and instead, build for
G-d, once and for all, a place for His presence to dwell, here
on this earth.
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 Tune in to this week's Temple
Talk, as Rabbi Chaim Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven weave together
all the loose threads of change currently challenging us all: The stepping
up of the three weeks into the nine days of Av, the regal month that
roars like a lion protecting its cubs; the gift of self-propelling prophecy
that visits us on Shabbat Chazon as we get to draft our own Holy
Temple blueprints; the tantalizing ramifications of Tisha B'Av which
falls on Shabbat; and the shift in consciousness and purpose which informs
the words of Moshe rabbenu as he readies his beloved people Israel to enter
into the cherished land of Israel, as we begin the book of Deuteronomy.
Plus, more thoughts on the three weeks and the necessary prerequisites for
building the Holy Temple: losing our jaded and faded heaviness of spirit
and regaining the childlike energy and drive to make a real change in the
world. You heard it: It's paradigm shift time for the children of
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change yours. Click here to
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 New: Rabbi Chaim Richman Blogging On The Times Of Israel: The
increasingly popular Times of Israel English language news site has invited
the Temple Institute's Rabbi Chaim Richman to begin blogging from the site.
Click here
to read Rabbi Richman's latest entry on his blog: Tisha B’Av: Now
Ain’t the Time for Your Tears. |
 This week's all-new Return
of Prophecy teaching by Rabbi Avraham Sutton, is entitled, "Chapter 34: The Experience Of Oneness:
Through meditative Jewish prayer we lose
ourselves to this atomized world of divisions and distinctions and wake up
to a world of unity and oneness with G-d." Click here
to view. |
 Imagination vs Reality: Our imagination is a blessed aspect of our
humanity, but it must be reigned in to serve the greater good that is the
reality in which we live and serve G-d. This is the lesson
that Moshe will spend the final 37 days of his life on this earth
teaching Israel, and this is the lesson that we must take home with us on
Shabbat Chazon: The Holy Temple that we see in our mind's eye is the
one that we will build with our own two hands. Click here
to view Rabbi Richman's teaching on parashat Devarim (Deuteronomy
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Jerusalem,
Yitzchak Reuven
The Temple
Institute
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Hab 2:4 Hinei
(behold), his nashamah (soul) which is puffed up is not upright in him; but the
tzaddik (righteous) shall live by his emunah (believe).
Through Moshiach, Yeshuah from Yahweh who give you emunah (believe)….. Gen 15:6 And he believed in Yahweh; and He credited emunah (faith)] to him as tzedakah (righteousness). Please read the whole book of HaNavi Habakuk? The Koran teaches us that you have to die……. But, please Yudah (Jews) and Ephraim (most Christians) Listen to His Voice:
Hab 1:12 Art thou not mikedem
(‘everlasting’
also said of Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s eternal divine nature: Dan 7:14 And there was given Him (Moshiach) dominion,
and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should pey-lammed-chet.
[1] (worship as deity) (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach).
His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His
(Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.] see Michah
5:1[2];)
Yahweh
Elohai (my Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast
appointed them (these Chaldean) for mishpat (ordinance); O Tzur, Thou hast
ordained them (these Chaldean) for reproof.
Please take it serious what Abba Yahweh is telling us in: Deu 18:15 Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohim) will raise up unto thee a Navi (prophet) from among thee, of thy achim (bretheren), kamoni (like me.....
Exo 32:30 The next
day Moshe said to the people, "You have committed a terrible sin. Now I
will go up to Yahweh; maybe I will be able to atone for your sin."); unto
him ye must listen;
Deu 18:16 According to all that thou
desired of Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohimin) Chorev (to be burnt dried up,
ruined, wasted) in the Yom HaKahal (day of the congregation), saying, Let me
not hear again the voice of Yahweh Elohav (your Elohim), neither let me see
this eish hagedolah (‘great fire’) any more, that I die not.
Deu 18:17 And Yahweh said unto me, They
have well-spoken that which they have spoken.
Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Navi
(prophet) from among their achim (brethren), like unto thee, and will put My
words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Joh
10:18
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have samchut
(authority) to lay it down, and I have samchut to receive it again. This
mitzvah I received from HaAv (the Father).
Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall speak Bishmi (in My
Name), I will require it of him.
Joh 8:28 Therefore, Rebbe,
Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you perform the hagbah (lifting
up) of the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as (knowledge) that Ani Hu
[YESHAYAH 41:4; SHEMOT 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv (the
Father) of me taught me, these things I speak.
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiah Yeshuah – is Yeshuah Yahweh. Like it is said in: Gen_49:18 I have waited for Thy Yeshuah (Salvation), Yahweh.
Exo_15:2 Yahweh is my oz and zimrah (song of praise), and He is become to me Yeshuah (salvation); He
is Eli (my Elohim), and I will praise Him; Elohei Avi (the Elohim of my
Father), and I will exalt Him.
And not a half-god, or another mighty-one who came between HaShem and us! (Not, ‘It Suph’!) I believe many of us (Jews and Ephraimites!) have to learn that!
[1]
Dictionary of the Talmud. M. Jastrow p. 1178 פלח
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