by Eric C. Martienssen | Oct 30, 2014 | 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 | Apr 18, 2013 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 16:1 – 20:27; Amos 9:7-15 (Sephardim: Ezekiel 20:2-20) Commentary by Eric Martienssen: In our (Ashkenasim) Haftara God asks: “Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?” The destruction of the modern temples of God and all what is...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 14, 2013 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Leviticus 1:1 – 5:26; Isaiah 43:21 – 44:23 Commentary by Eric Martienssen: 1 And He called to Moses, and the Lord spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying… This Tent of Meeting later was our Temple in Jerusalem, where God himself, blessed be HE, was living....
by Eric C. Martienssen | Nov 8, 2012 | 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 | Nov 8, 2012 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Genesis 23:1–25:18; 1 Kings 1:1-31 Commentary by Michael Schneider, Jerusalem: Our Torah reading begins with Sarah’s death and ends with Abraham’s death. She was 127 years old. Abraham now set out to negotiate in typical Middle-Eastern style for a burial site. How...
