Chaim Richman

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Aug 13, 2016, 10:53 PM

Fasting for the Whole World

Many Jews will be fasting this Sunday in observance of Tisha B’Av, Israel’s day of national mourning to commemorate the destruction of the Holy Temple. But many others consider the whole idea of the ancient Temple to be irrelevant,...

Apr 11, 2016, 3:16 PM

The Passover Recipe You DON’T Want to Miss!

This year, as a special pre-Pesach treat, the Temple Institute has teamed up with world renowned Michelin Star Chef Yochanan Lambiase, who in a short, five minute video, guides the viewer through three scrumptious Passover recipes and then unveils...

Jan 22, 2015, 9:26 AM

Time: Where does it come from? Where does it begin? Who determines time and what gift does time contain? "This month shall be to you the head of the months; to you it shall be the first of the...

Nov 20, 2014, 9:44 AM

Parashat Toldot

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...

Nov 13, 2014, 4:12 PM

Parashat Chayei Sara

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...

Nov 6, 2014, 9:13 PM

Parashat Vayera

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...

Oct 30, 2014, 5:27 PM

Parashat Lech Lecha

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...

Oct 23, 2014, 8:29 AM

Parashot Bereshith-Noach

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 -...

Oct 7, 2014, 12:05 PM

The Festival of Sukkot 5775

Our yearly rendezvous with G-d, which began in the month of Av, built up steam throughout the month of Elul, left us reeling and breathless from Rosh HaShana and literally out of this world on Yom Kippur, now places...

Sep 18, 2014, 5:02 PM

Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech/Rosh HaShana Greeting

In this week's parasha the children of Israel are about to enter into a covenant with Hashem, and we are today about to enter into the new year of 5775. The same challenge that stood before Israel as she...

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About Me

Rabbi Chaim Richman is the director of the international department of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem. For over three decades the Temple Institute has been dedicated to every aspect of the Biblical commandment to build the Holy Temple. Through its research and educational programming, the Institute seeks to highlight the universal significance of the Holy Temple as a house of peace and prayer for all nations.