by Eric C. Martienssen | Dec 11, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Genesis 37:1 – 40:23; Amos 2:6 – 3:8 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Have you ever felt utterly and completely alone? Yosef must have. He was separated from his loving father and his brothers wanted to kill him....
by Eric C. Martienssen | Nov 28, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading
Genesis 28:10–32:3; Hosea 11:7 – 12:12 Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Avraham saw his appointed meeting place with G-d as a distant and foreboding mountain, (Mount Moriah), and Yitzchak envisioned the Holy...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Nov 6, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading
18:1 – 22:24 || Kings 2 4:1-37 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Avraham’s final test was not just the binding of Yitzchak, but no less crucially, the finding of the ‘place’ where G-d directed him...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Sep 11, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Deutoronomy 26:1 – 29:8 || Isaiah 60:1-21 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “The good, the bad and the blessing. It’s all here in parashat Ki Tavo. From the sublime perfect moment of being alive in G-d’s...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Jul 31, 2014 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22 || Isaiah 1:1-27 Video Commentary by Rabbi Chaim Richman, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem: “Moshe rabbenu opens his final words to the children of Israel with gentle chastisement. Before they enter the land it is important that they be...
