Positivity & the Holy Temple: Praise HaShem
EKEV: Deuteronomy 7:12 – 11:25 || Iesaiah 49:14 – 51:3 Commentary by Rabbi Abba Horvitz for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The power of positive affirmations found in the words and verses of Jewish Scripture can change both our outlook on life, our...
Shabbat Va’etchanan Video Commentary
Deuteronomy 3:23 - 7:11 || Isaiah 40:1-26 Commentary by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Moshe, the man of G-d, at last, after much pleading, accepts G-d's verdict that he will not be entering into the land of Israel. But he will spend...
Positivity & the Holy Temple: Serving G-d with Joy
Deuteronomy 1:1 - 3:22 || Iesaiah 1:1-27 Commentary by Rabbi Abba Horvitz for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The psalmist tells us to "Serve HaShem with joy." (Psalms 100:2) It is truly a mitzva to always be happy, but our chiefest joy is to serve HaShem in...
Shabbat MATOT-MASSEI Video Commentary
Numbers 30:2 – 36:13 || Jeremiah 2:4-28 & 3:4 & 4:1-2 Commentary by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Our world is filled with uncertainties, today maybe more than ever. With so much out of our control, Torah teaches us to focus on what...
PINCHAS – Talking Directly to God
(see below: Talking Directly to G-d) Numbers 25:10 – 30:1 || Jeremiah 1:1 – 2:3 Commentary by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Doing what no man dared to do, Pinchas, the son of Eleazar the kohen, earned his place in Torah, in the hearts...
Shabbat CHUKAT BALAK Video Commentary
Paraschat „Chukkat Balak“: Numbers 19:1 – 25:9 || Micha 5:6 – 6:8 Commentary by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «When a simple beast of burden can see what the great heathen seer Bilaam cannot see, and when G-d opens the mouth of a dumb...
