by Eric C. Martienssen | Apr 13, 2011 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Leviticus 16:1 – 18,30; Malachi 3:4-24 Abstract of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: The Shabbat before Passover is called “The Great Shabbat” because we end our Torah Portion with Malachi 4:5, which says, “See, I will...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Dec 23, 2010 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Exodus 1:1 – 6:1; Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22-23; Jeremiah 1:1 – 2:3 by Eric Martienssen Commentary: Since the late Middle Ages it was often at all in many places not allowed for Jews on Niddel Nacht (from lat. “Naftali domini”, Christmas Eve, December 24) to...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Aug 5, 2010 | Current Themes
“BEHOLD!” That is the name of the current weekly reading. More than actual, really beautiful. Behold (Hebrew: Re’eh), look carefully at this endless and magnificent future. Your soul is beautiful beyond words, if we are prepared to accept our own soul, our future –...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Aug 21, 2009 | Current Shabbat-Reading
„Schoftim“: Deuteronomy 16:18 till 21:9; Isaiah 51:12 till 52:12 Just mentioning a few verses out of this weeks Haftorah (here Isaiah 52) but what a blessing, what a future: “Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Aug 20, 2009 | Current Themes
“BEHOLD!” That is the name of the current weekly reading. More than actual, really beautiful. Behold (Hebrew: Re’eh), look carefully at this endless and magnificent future. Your soul is beautiful beyond words, if we are prepared to accept our own soul, our future –...