by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 11, 2007 | Lech Lecha
Noach spent 120 years building an ark, deliberately stretching it out so that people would ask questions, hear about the oncoming world crisis and repent. For one hundred and twenty years Noach prophesied the end of the world –yet not even one single Baal...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 11, 2007 | Lech Lecha
Today we review the story of Abraham, the founding father of Judaism. From what we know about Avrohom Avinu we can be very proud of our roots. Avrohom was a great philosopher. Avrohom was a great teacher. Avrohom was a man of unyielding principals – ready to...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 1, 2007 | Chayei Sarah
“Sarah was a hundred years and twenty years and seven years, these were the years of Sarah” (Bereishis 23:1). Rashi comments that from the unusual phraseology we learn that all her years were good. “Abraham was a hundred years and seventy years and...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Sep 18, 2007 | Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Elul, Ten Days of Repentance
There is a standard metaphor that we are taught as children. On the Day of Judgment God, the judge, sits on His chair with a large scale in front of him. Not a digital scale or the type of scale that you would see in the butcher shop or the vegetable store but an old...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Sep 17, 2007 | Sukkot
I have become addicted to the news. I get news about Eretz Yisroel wherever I can. I have become an Arutz Sheva junkie wondering why they haven’t updated in the past five minutes. I call Israel. I wake up with my clock radio blaring news and I talk to anyone who...
