by Eric C. Martienssen | Aug 23, 2019 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Deuteronomy 7:12 – 11:25 || Isaiah 49:14 – 51:3 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Moshe passionately describes the beauty and bounty of the land of Israel to his people. Moshe, himself, won’t be entering into...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Sep 28, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 16; Numbers 29:7-11 || Isaiah 57:14 – 58:14 || Leviticus 18:1-30; entirely Jona; Micha 7:18-20 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Yom Kippur is a chance to start anew and rewrite our own history with G-d’s...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Jan 12, 2017 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Genesis 47:28 – 50:26 || 1 Kings 2:1-12 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Sometimes G-d speaks to us in the thunder, sometimes in a ‘still small voice.’ Sometimes G-d blesses us with the answer we are...
by Eric C. Martienssen | May 15, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Levitivcus 26:3-27:34; Jeremiah 16:19–17:14 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Bechukotai, the concluding parasha of the book of Leviticus, is all about the blessings that Israel will receive when she performs...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Sep 4, 2009 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Deuteronomy 26:1 till 29:8; Isaiah 60:1 till 22 Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: The backdrop of this week’s Shabbat reading is the giving of the “first fruit” of the ground “when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an...