by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 15, 2001 | Bo
In Kabbalah there is a concept called “awakening from above” and there is another concept called “awakening from below”. “Awakening from below” means that sometimes we, down here, can take an action that prompts G-d above to react....
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 14, 2001 | Va'eira
A couple of weeks ago I spent a day in Key West, Florida. There was a beautiful Government building that was erected many decades ago. It was the southernmost government building in the United States of America. The tour guide pointed out some of the unusual features...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 14, 2001 | Vayechi
Yaakov wasn’t blind. Yitzchak was. Why Yitzchak couldn’t tell Yaakov from Esav, we can at least partially understand – he was blind. But now, Yosef brings his two sons Efraim and Menashe to his ailing father Yaakov. Yaakov looks at them and asks...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 14, 2001 | Vayigash
Yesterday was the Tenth of Tevet. The day Nebuchadnezar began his occupation of Jerusalem. All the Jews had lived in Israel for eight hundred and fifty years. The Bais HaMikdash in Jerusalem, built by Shlomo HaMelech, was four hundred and ten years old. Generations of...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 14, 2001 | Vayeshev
If you are called upon to make history – and accept the challenge upon yourself regardless of personal cost – the correct word to use while accepting is “”Hineini””. In the Torah “”Hineini”” – I am...
