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...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Sep 17, 2007 | Bereishit
There is a story I have been selling all week. Someone came to his Rabbi with a serious problem. Yom Kippur is coming and the Mets game comes out the same time as Kol Nidrei! The Rabbi put his arm comfortingly on the shoulder of his congregant and said Marvin, what...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Sep 17, 2007 | Bereishit
In the story of the Creation of the world, it is recorded that “G-d blessed the seventh day” (Gen. 2:3). How did He bless the Sabbath? According to Rashi, He blessed it with manna, by providing a double portion on Fridays, while the Israelites were in the...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Sep 16, 2007 | Bereishit
In Koheles (Ecclesiastes), the book of Solomon’s wisdom, there appears the statement: “ve-H’ yevakesh es-nirdaf”, (Eccl. 3:15), which can be translated as: “And G-d seeks out him who is pursued”, or perhaps: “And G-d favors...
