Shabbat Parashat Ki Tissa – Sabbath Reading ...

Exodus 30:11–34:35; Numbers 19: Ezechiel 36:16-38 ▼ Sabbath Song: Abstract of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: This weekly portion (parashat) begins with ransom (kofer nefesh) and atonement money (kessef kippurim) in the value of “half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary” for every man over 20. “The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half...

Shabbat Shemot – Names – Reading and C...

Exodus 1:1 – 6:1; Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22-23; Jeremiah 1:1 – 2:3 Abstract of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: This week’s Shabbat reading begins in the book Exodus with God leading the children of Israel out of Egypt hundreds of years after Josephs’ death. Egyptologist David Rohl believes the Exodus happened in 1207 BC, including 40 years of wanderings in the desert. From...

Shabbat Miketz – Readings and video commenta...

Hallel, Genesis 41:1 – 44,17; Numbers 7:57 – 8:4; 1 Kings 7:40-50 This week again you will find no written Commentary here but a video from The Temple Institute Rabbi Chaim Richman who speaks in this parasha about the jew to bring the light of God into the world. On this Shabbat it is the day of the last, the 8th light of Hanukkah.The righteous Yosef was the dream interpreter and dream facilitator to Pharaoh,...

Shabbat Hanukkah and VA’YESHEV – He, Jacob, li...

Hallel; Genesis 37:1 – 40:23; Numbers 7:1-17; Numbers 28:9-15; Zechariah 2:14 – 4.7 Abstract of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: In our Torah portion, ‘Va‘Yeshev,’ last year, we discussed Joseph. Through Joseph’s brother’s rejection, he was sent to Egypt where he attained status of being second to Pharaoh and regarded as a deity. The Egyptians also used the concept of the...

Shabbat VA’YISHLAKH – And he sent – Sabb...

Genesis 32:4–36:43; Obadiah 1:1-21 Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: This week’s Torah portion begins with Jacob returning to the land of his parents after working for his father-in-law Laban. Upon his return, Jacob meets Esau who 20 years earlier sought to kill him. Even though, Jacob had excess riches he was lacking one thing: peace with his brother. Once again he attempts to create his own...

Shabbat Lech Lecha – Go forth – Sabbat...

Genesis 12:1–17:27; Isaiah 40:27–41:16 Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: This week’s Torah portion introduces Abraham, the first patriarch. It is here the Lord called him to “Go forth… to the Land which I will show you!” It tells us this was a step of faith that even believers find difficult to take. He risks everything. Abraham, then called Abram, was obedient. Unlike believers today...

Shabbat Bereshith – Sabbath Reading and Video Co...

Genesis / Bereshith 1:1 – 6:8; Isaiah 42:5 – 43:10 Bereishit is the Hebrew name of the “First Book of Moses” and also the translated form of the first word of the Torah, “In the beginning of…” This are also the first five books of the Tanach, the Jewish Bible. And from the beginning on it starts with miracles. Adam HaRishon – the first man: Who was he, and what is he to us? Even the angels were...

Shabbat Ha’azinu – Give ear – Sp...

Deut. 32:1 -52; Hosea 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-27 Pullout of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem: This week’s portion is the last before the yearly reading cycle of the five books of Moses, the Torah, begins again. It is a one-chapter portion that speaks of the “Song of Moses.” The first Song of Moses was the “Song of the Sea” when the people of Israel miraculously crossed...

Shabbat Kiteze – when you go forth, video co...

Deuteronomy 21:10 till 25:19; Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1 till 10 Kiteze or Ki Tetze, means “When you go forth” … and Rabbi David L. Locketz of Bet Shalom Congregation gets it right to the very point, beginning with the words: “As we continue our journey through the Book of Deuteronomy”… maybe we should listen to him just for this 50 seconds: Shabbat Shalom

Shabbat Shoftim – Judges – Sabbath 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, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean… For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went...