by Eric C. Martienssen | Apr 18, 2025 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
This year the Holocaust Remembrance Day “Yom haShoah” falls on the sixth day after “Good Friday”, and the eighth day after Good Friday falls on the Shabbat “Shemini” [= the eighth day of inauguration].”Good” Friday...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Feb 21, 2025 | Current Shabbat-Reading
SHABBAT MISHPATIM readings: Exodus 21:1 – 24:18 Tora study by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «We all demand that life be fair. And we all want justice. And the pursuit of justice is what parashat Mishpatim is all about. But...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Dec 25, 2024 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Chanukah reading: Hallel, Numbers 7:1-29 Weekly Torah Study Miketz: Gen. 41:1 – 44:17 + Num. 7:24-35; Zech. 2:14 – 4,7 Temple Talk by Rav Yitzchak Reuven for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Israel Waits for Trump! The story of Chanukah, of a...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Jun 7, 2024 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
SHABBAT BAMIDBAR reading: Numbers 1:1 – 4:20 Weekly Torah Study: Shavuot & the Book of Ruth Tora study by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «t is traditional on the holiday of Shavuot, which is coming up next week, to read the...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Mar 1, 2024 | Current Shabbat-Reading
SHABBAT KI TISA readings: Exodus 30:11 – 34:35 || 1 Kings 19:20-39 Tora study by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Cataclysmic occurrences change the course of history. One of Israel’s most cataclysmic and enduring incidents...
