by Eric C. Martienssen | May 5, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 16:1 – 20:27 || Amos 9:7-15 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «”You shall be holy, for I, HaShem, your G-d, am holy.” What does it mean to be holy? How are we to achieve it as individuals? And...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Apr 28, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 12:1 – 15:33 || 2 Kings 7:3-20 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The spiritual illness of tzar’at, which is physically manifest in the flesh, clothing and walls of a person’s house, is a...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Apr 21, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47 || 2 Samuel 6:1 – 7:17 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «On the very same day that G-d sends fire down from heaven to consume the inaugural offerings in the Tabernacle, He instructs Israel to...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Apr 7, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 6:1 – 8:36 || Malachi 3:4-24 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «G-d calls upon us to draw closer to Him, and commands us as to how to do so. The book of Leviticus opens with a call to Israel to draw closer...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 24, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 35:1 – 40:38 || Ezekiel 45:16 – 46:18 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Generous hearts, wise hearts, uplifted hearts, Torah’s emphasis on details, observing Shabbat, the building of the Tabernacle and...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 17, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 30:11 – 34:35 [Parah: Numbers 19] || [Ezekiel 36:16-38] Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The vast, sprawling soul-scape that is Ki Tisa, in all its myriad facets, points to one irrefutable fact of life:...
