by Eric C. Martienssen | Nov 19, 2015 | Current Themes
Genesis 28:10–32:3; Hosea 11:7 – 12:12 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Avraham saw his appointed meeting place with G-d as a distant and foreboding mountain, (Mount Moriah), and Yitzchak envisioned the Holy...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Nov 5, 2015 | Current Themes
It was the night of 9th on the 10th of November – Martin Luther’s birthday! – that should be, in 1938, as a birthday present dedicated to him, the man who has called the Germans and the entire Christianity 400 years prior to this date: „Firstly, that...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Oct 30, 2015 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
18:1 – 22:24 || Kings 2 4:1-37 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Avraham’s final test was not just the binding of Yitzchak, but no less crucially, the finding of the ‘place’ where G-d directed him...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Oct 22, 2015 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Genesis 12:1 – 17:27 || Isaiah 40:27 – 41:16 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Avraham wasn’t just the biological ancestor of the nation of Israel. He wasn’t merely a migrant seeking a new land. And...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Oct 16, 2015 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Genesis 6:9 – 11:32 || Isaiah 54:1 – 55:5 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “A generation so evil, so corrupt, decadent, violent, so self centered that G-d, Who created and loved their forefather Adam, could not...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Oct 9, 2015 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Genesis 1:1 – 6:8 || Isaiah 42:5 – 43:10 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “The yearly cycle of reading the Torah, which concludes and then begins again on Simchat Torah, is a never-ending mobius strip of ever...
