A7 Radio's "Temple Talk" with Temple Talk

We’ve now begun the month of MarCheshvan, the “bitter” month of Cheshvan, ostensibly the most drab, lackluster month on the Hebrew calendar… no festivals or major observances. However, an enigmatic Midrashic teaching reveals that below the surface, in the realm of potential, this month is “on hold,” promised by G-d Himself to be host in the future to the most exciting event of all time… the dedication ceremony of the Third Temple. Rabbi Richman and Yitzchak Reuven explore this fascinating tradition and emphatically conclude that if it’s up to us, in our generation, the future is now! We need to make it happen. Indeed, this theme converges from all directions in this week’s edition of Temple Talk, for this is also the month in which we begin asking for rain in our prayers in the Land of Israel, and it’s also the month in which the waters of the Great Flood in the time of Noah began to fall.

Noah was a truly righteous man who was instrumental in saving the entire world, and today, his righteous descendants are also doing their part to save the world. But: What would you do if you could pray for the world, and you knew that your prayer could save the entire world? This is the question we ponder on the backdrop of this week’s Torah portion.

Also: It was this on the sixth day of this very month, in the year 4926 (1165), that the great Rambam (Maimonides) ascended the Temple Mount! Find out how Jerusalem’s Temple activists are celebrating this important event this year, with a special Temple Mount conference to be held on the anniversary of this important event, on Sunday Oct. 25th in “Heichal Shlomo” on King George Street.

Learn more about the positive commandment of "mora haMikdash " - showing reverence for G-d on the site of the Holy Temple, in Rambam's Laws of the Chosen House: http://www.templeinstitute.org/rambam.htm

Read the Rambam's own description of his own personal ascent to the Temple Mount: http://www.templeinstitute.org/kids/goodies-rambam-1.htm

Rabbi Chaim Richman is the international director of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem which is dedicated to rebuilding the Holy Temple (Beit HaMikdash). He is a member of the current effort to revive the Sanhedrin and the author of ten books including Mystery of the Red Heifer and A House of Prayer for All Nations. Yitzchak Reuven works at the Temple Institute in Jerusalem. He previously worked building Biblical harps and other musical instruments for use in the Holy Temple. He and Rabbi Chaim Richman have been friends since their Israeli army days. They host the Temple Talk podcast dealing with issues of the Temple Mount and the weekly Torah parsha every Tuesday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Israel time (10am U.S. EST) on Israel National Radio.