by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 10, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 27:20 – 30:10 [Zachor: Deut.25:17-19] || [1 Samuel 15:2-34] Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «”It’s a bird, it’s a plane…” no, it’s just the Kohen Gadol, ordinary mortal but...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Feb 23, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 21:1 – 24:18; 30:11-16 || II Kings 12:1-17 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «We can liberate ourselves by recognizing that G-d is all there is and that all the world belongs to Him. The lofty ideals and...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Feb 17, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 18:1 – 20:23 || Isaiah 6:1 – 7:6; 9:5-6 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The Mount SInai was a sensory bending experience in which the entire nation of Israel stepped beyond their physical limitations of...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Feb 10, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 13:17 – 17:16 || Judges 4:4 – 5:31 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Post-parting of the Sea of Reeds depression nags the children of Israel, as they question whether G-d is still with them, just days after...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Feb 3, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 10:1 – 13:16 || Jeremiah 46:13-28 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Blood on the lintel and the doorposts was not a sign intended to aid G-d in sparing His children Israel from the plague of the first-born,...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Jan 19, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 1:1- 6:1 || Isaiah 2:,6 – 28:13; 29:22-23 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «The name which G-d tells Moshe to reveal to the children of Israel as the name of G-d who has sent him to redeem them, is a name which...
