by Eric C. Martienssen | Oct 15, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Shemini Atzeret: Hallel, Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17 , Numbers 29:35-30:1, Kings 1, 8:54-66 Simchat Torah: Hallel, Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Numbers 29:35-30:1, Joshua 1:1-18 Shabbat Bereshit: Genesis 1:1-6:8; Haftara: Isaiah 42:5-43:10 Download the...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Oct 2, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Erev Yom Kippur: Kol Nidre (this year Friday Night Oct. 3) Kol Nidre – by Neil Diamond Yom Kippur: Lev. 16:1-34; Numbers 29:7-11; Isaiah 57:14–58:14; Lev. 18:1-30; Micha 7:18-20; Book Jona The Meaning of the Book of Life – by Rabbi Richman, Jerusalem:...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Jun 19, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Numbers 16:1 – 18:32; (Rosch Chodesch) Hallel; Numbers 28:8-15; Isaiah 66:1-24 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: »”They say that vanity got the best of him…” Korach had it all: He was brilliant, well educated,...
by Eric C. Martienssen | May 8, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Levitivcus 25:1-26:2; Jeremiah 32:6–27 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman of The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Keeping the Shmitta – Sabbatical – year, and the Yovel – Jubilee- in the land of Israel is an essential element of the nation of...
by Eric C. Martienssen | May 1, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23; Haftara: Ezechiel 44:15-31 “Being holy by being in this world, connected to and cognizant of G-d’s presence in this world, ever ready to do good in this world, is the life of heightened consciousness that Torah exhorts us to live”: Watch...