by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 24, 2014 | Noach
“These Are The Flood Waters Of Noah!” Isaiah 54;9 Noah said to Moshe: ‘I’m greater than you; I was saved from the generation of the flood.’ Moshe said to Noah: ‘You saved yourself but you couldn’t save the world. I saved the world.’ (Yalkut Devarim 33;951) God saw how...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 1, 2014 | Yom Kippur, Elul, Ten Days of Repentance
An interesting person in Jewish history was King Menashe — interesting, that is, in a negative sense. He was the son of King Chizkiahu, and one of his early acts was to kill his grandfather, the prophet Isaiah [see the drosha on Shabbos Shuva for some...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Aug 1, 2014 | Devarim
“Chazon Yeshayahu”. A vision of Yeshayahu! The Medrash [Shir Hashirim Rabbah Ch. 3] taught that there are ten levels of prophecy. Sometimes prophecy comes in a dream, sometimes as a feeling and sometimes as a voice. Which kind of prophecy was the harshest?...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Jul 4, 2014 | Balak
Bilaam was the most successful gentile, of that generation and possibly in history. He was the parallel of Avraham Avinu and Moshe Rabbeinu. He didnt represent a specific nation; he was at the apex of the non-Jewish world as a whole. He belonged to the world. Chazal...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Jun 27, 2014 | Chukat
This week’s parsha discusses the mysterious law of “parah adumah”, the red heifer, which is used for purification, but contaminates those who perform the purification. “Zos chukas haTorah”, it says, “This is the law of the...
