by Eric C. Martienssen | May 1, 2020 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 16:1 – 20:27 || Amos 9:7-15 Commentary by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «”Love your neighbor as yourself,” has justifiably been deemed the central pillar of Torah. But what does it mean, and how are we expected to...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Jun 29, 2018 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Numbers 22:2 – 25:9 || Micah 5,6 – 6,8 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Bilaam, the heathen prophet and curser for hire, whose motto was “anything you can do, I can do badder,” was the negative twin of...
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 | Jan 9, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Exodus 13:17 – 17:16; Judges 4:4 – 5:31 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel “Bread from heaven: What a beautiful way for G-d to show His people how much He loves them! The manna which sustained Israel for forty years...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Aug 8, 2012 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Deuteronomy 7:12 till 11:25; Haftara: Isaiah 49:14 till 51:3 How is it possible that the Torah commands us something which is depending upon a person’s heard, depending upon a person’s emotion? Can God command us how to feel? The love that every Jew feels for God is...