by Eric C. Martienssen | Nov 27, 2015 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
This week’s parashat (וישלח- Genesis 32:4-36:43) mentions “Israel” for the first time in the Holy Bibel (in difference to the world: Genesis – 2 Chronicles Chapter 36, only)! Since then, the Christian-Roman world is trying to erase precisely...
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 | Nov 12, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Genesis 23:1–25:18; 1 Kings 1:1-31 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “The life of Sara teaches us that through their deeds the righteous live on even after their bodies are interred in the ground. The first person to be...
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 | Oct 24, 2013 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Genesis 23:1–25:18; 1 Kings 1:1-31 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “The life of Sara teaches us that through their deeds the righteous live on even after their bodies are interred in the ground. The first person to be mourned,...
