by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Nov 2, 2006 | Lifestyle
I recently returned from a trip to Israel. During the four days of my trip, I stood on Har Gilo studiously staring at Beit Jala wondering why anyone would want to shoot at me from what looked like one sleepy village to another. I was frisked from head to toe to enter...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 31, 2006 | Vayakhel, Purim, Pekudei
Perhaps our minds are clouded by our idea of what we should become, and G-d’s idea just gets in the way. Whatever happened to Betzalel? The Talmud tells a story. Rabbi Tarphon was ill and his very important friends, Rabbi Akiva, Rabban Gamliel and others, came...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 31, 2006 | Terumah, Purim
Perhaps our minds are clouded by our idea of what we should become, and G-d’s idea just gets in the way. Whatever happened to Betzalel? The Talmud tells a story. Rabbi Tarphon was ill and his very important friends, Rabbi Akiva, Rabban Gamliel and others, came...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 31, 2006 | Pesach/Passover
Maybe it was the Seder that shook up the Heavens and gave us the Modern State of Israel. “Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarphon were conducting a Seder in Bnei Brak. They were discussing the Exodus all that night,...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 31, 2006 | Pesach/Passover
Talk given in Baltimore, MD, 3/25/2006 in Congregation Bnei Torah Shaarei Zion While visiting London a few months ago, I heard the following story from a 19 year old Jewish girl. She was vacationing in a beach house in Thailand when the Tsunami hit. Within moments she...
