DEVARIM – Video Commentary on this Shabbat...

Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22 || Iesaiah 1:1-27 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Destruction is the root of building. All new growth is nourished by the victories and defeats of the past, the previous generations. This is why Moshe begins the book of Deuteronomy with a veiled rebuke of the previous generation, and this is why it is up to our generation to rebuild the Holy Temple...

MATOT-MASEI – Video Commentary on this Shabb...

MATOT-MASEI: Numbers 30:2 – 36:13 || Jeremiah 2:3-28 & 3:4 & 4:1-2 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Forty two way stations made up the travels of Israel as they made their way from Egypt to the promised land; forty two destinations, each with its own purpose and secret to reveal to us as we pass through our own life’s journey, from the narrow places...

PINCHAS – Video Commentary on this Shabbat...

Please note that parashat MATOT is being read in the land of Israel this Shabbat. Galut: „PINCHAS“: Numbers 25:10 – 30:1 || Jeremiah 1:1 – 2:3 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «“A generation goes and a generation comes,“ said Kohelet, and that is exactly what we are witnessing in the meteoric rise of Pinchas, the history making appeal of the daughters...

BALAK – Video Commentary on this Shabbat...

Please note that parashat PINCHAS is being read in the land of Israel this Shabbat. Galut: „BALAK“: Numbers 22:2 – 25:9 || Micha 5:6 – 6:8 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The heathen prophet Bilaam specialized in locating and channeling G-d’s momentary anger in order to achieve the curses by which he won his infamy. But what is G-d’s fleeting...

CHUKAT – Video Commentary on this Shabbat...

Please note that parashat BALAK is being read in the land of Israel this Shabbat. Galut: „CHUKAT“: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1 || Judges 11:1-33 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The Thin Red Line: Parashat Chukat describes so many seemingly unrelated events, yet it is the profound fundamental truth contained in the commandment of the red heifer – parah adumah...