by Eric C. Martienssen | Nov 29, 2018 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Genesis 37:1 – 40:23 || Amos 2:6 – 3:8 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Parashat Vayeshev begins the painful story of brothers whose enmity toward their precocious younger brother Yosef and the preferential...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 27, 2013 | Current Themes
by Israel Yaoz « From Jerusalem to Jerusalem 3 – including Passover Prayer PESACH SERMON That was the First WW. Still “enjoyable”…” This kind of deliberations were going on for centuries, around many tables, in many parts of the globe; I myself in my younger years...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 20, 2013 | Current Themes
by Israel Yaoz « From Jerusalem to Jerusalem Part 2 – Glueckel von Hameln . . . for Pesach / Passover picture postcards / greeting cards pls klick » here Another quotation I wish to bring is from a book widely read some 40 years ago: “The last of the Just”,...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 10, 2013 | Current Themes
by Israel Yaoz A well-known Hebrew writer, described in his story the eternal wandering Jew; wandering with his rod, bent under a heavy bag on his shoulders, a long beard, tired, stepping through the endless steppe of Siberia. He encountered Ivan, and Ivan asked him:...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Dec 15, 2011 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Genesis 37:1 – 40:23; Amos 2:6 – 3:8 Abstract of the Commentary byMichael Schneider, Jerusalem: In our Torah portion, ‘Va‘Yeshev,’ last year, we discussed Joseph as a prototype of the Messiah. We saw the parallels between Messiah Ben-Joseph and the Joseph’s...
