by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | May 20, 2007 | Shelach
Beside for having a problem on your hand – you may have a godol on your hand. One of the greatest tragedies of our times is when every once in a while a young man or women makes a decision to walk away from generations of tradition, from years of education, from...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | May 15, 2007 | Behaalotcha
G-d does not always do things to the way we feel they should be done. The Jewish people were ready to move. They were on their way to Eretz Yisroel. But Miriam couldn’t move. Miriam became ill with Tzoraas and had to be in quarantine for seven days. Three...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | May 13, 2007 | Bamidbar
She would have discussed the matter with her mother but she is too busy volunteering to get involved in her problems! Things that we love we count. When we were children we counted and examined our baseball cards tens of times. As adults we go over our portfolios...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | May 1, 2007 | Sukkot, Pesach/Passover, Shavuot
Holidays are those times in the year which draw our attention to a special message underlying them. They ask us to take to heart certain fundamental truths that they aim to impress upon us. Rising above the other days of the year, they call us out of our humdrum...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Apr 27, 2007 | Ki Tavo
G-d created the world just so that we could come to Israel We have just arrived in Israel looking forward to some fresh spiritual inspiration. But it is very difficult to do so. How can we think about our soul when our body is in pain? The two sadistic bombings that...
