by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Feb 7, 2014 | Sefer Shemot, Tetzaveh
As a Rabbi and a Jew we have moved many times. In our family, we have it down to a science. We spend about a week packing up our home and the second week unpacking. The first week we take everything apart and the second week we put everything back together again. To...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Jan 17, 2014 | Sefer Shemot, Yitro
There is an interesting story told in the Book of Judges, Chapter 17. Someone by the name of Michiyahu founded an idolatrous cult. He had an idol and built a temple for this purpose. He sought someone with leadership qualities, charisma and spirituality to lead his...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Jan 9, 2014 | Beshalach
The Talmud (Sotah 37) gives us a glimpse of the internal politics among the tribes of Israel immediately preceding the splitting of the Red Sea. The tribes were arguing for the privilege of being the first to jump into the Sea, especially the tribes of Benjamin and...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Dec 27, 2013 | Va'eira
In today’s parsha we read how Moshe argued with G-d about his competence to carry G-d’s message to Pharaoh to release the Jews. “The children of Israel did not listen to me,” he says, “Why should Pharaoh?” (Exod. 6:12). This is a...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Dec 20, 2013 | Shemot
Here is one of the less discussed miracles that took place in Egypt. The pharaoh of Egypt had decreed that all the Jewish boy babies were to be drowned at birth. Yocheved, Moses’ mother, hides her newborn Moses for 3 months and then places her baby in a caulked...
