$0/$300
for Feb | Toda Raba! We thank you for your gifts & generousity. |  | 
|  |
UTN
Avraham saw his appointed meeting place with G-d as a distant and foreboding mountain, (Mount Moriah), and Yitzchak envisioned the Holy Temple to be a field, accessible and alive. But it was Yaakov who understood the Holy Temple to be a home, a nurturing, loving center in which G-d and all mankind can embrace.
Vayeitzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3)
Parashat Vayeitzei is read on Shabbat:
Kislev 7, 5775/November 29, 2014
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
Yitzchak avinu (Isaac our patriarch) was a man of vision blinded by the light of G-d’s brilliant and hidden presence. He lived, he died, and he lived again to bless his son Yaakov, ‘ish tam,’ the perfectible man, with the task of bringing G-d’s light into the world for all to perceive.
Portion (Genesis 25:19-28:9)
Parashat Portion is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 29, 5775/November 22, 2014
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
The purchase of the Machpelah cave by Avraham is the first of three incontestable acquisitions of the land of Israel that the holy Torah testifies to. The others are Kever Yosef, the tomb of Yosef, built upon land purchased by our patriarch Yaakov, and the threshing floor of Arvona, purchased by King David, upon which was built the Holy Temple. It is these three places precisely that our enemies currently seek to steal from Israel, using lies and deceptions, knowing full well that these three places are the three pillars upon which the world stands and the three foundation stones upon which Israel’s settlement of the land rests firmly and eternally.
Chayei Sara (Genesis 23:1-25:18)
Parashat Chayei Sara is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 22, 5775/November 15, 2014
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
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 to do so. For only in this place, the place where man was created, the place of the altar of the Holy Temple, could the binding of Yitzchak be fulfilled and its significance resonate throughout the ages. The journey to the “land of Moriah” was a journey to the true self of man.
Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24)
Parashat Vayera is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 15, 5775/November 8, 2014
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
This is so important to your understanding of real life Torah.
Avraham avinu (our father Abraham), sought G-d and loved G-d. G-d called to Avraham to leave all behind and journey to a land G-d would bequeath to Avraham’s as yet unborn children. Avraham’s understanding that the world has a Master and that He rules His world with love and with justice informs Avraham’s children to this day.
Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
Parashat Lech Lecha is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 8, 5775/November 1, 2014
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us
Before the beginning, before the heavens and the earth, before darkness and light, night and day, the stars and illuminations, the creatures of the sea, the crawling things, the birds or the beasts… even before the first Shabbat – G-d laid out the primordial foundations for His relationship with man. It is upon these unshakable foundations that all creation is built.
Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)
Parashat Noach is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 1, 5774/Octoberber 25, 2014
Temple Institute Links:
Program Link – Website – Support – Newsletter – Contact Us