Big People Make Big Mistakes | Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Parshat Vayeshev 5780
Pure Light | Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Va’Yeshev/Chanukah 2020
The Multi Colored Coat
This week's Torah portion describes the envy between Joseph and his brothers, “Sinat Chinam”, and to what extent that envy can damage even the greatest and holiest of families. The jealousy and hate that Joseph's brothers had toward him motivated them to plot Josephs...
Why Would Great Men Want To Kill Their Brother?
If the sons of Yaakov were such great men why did they want to kill their brother? The sons of Yaakov were all great men. The Medrash draws a metaphor to a king who wanted to build a beautiful palace. He tried building it on one support pillar and it collapsed. On...
Just Do It!
Shmuel Fixler A"H, a wonderful Jew who lived in Buffalo, NY, when I served as Rabbi there, once taught me a valuable lesson. Reb Shmuel was a Holocaust survivor. He had been through Hell, and the Nazis not only murdered most of his family, they also killed his...
Parshas Vayeshev 2001
“Hineini” – I am ready
Parshas Vayeishev 1999
On Chanukah the world saw the light that we can shed if we can only work together.
Judging Character
In today's parsha we read how, after the brothers had sold Joseph into slavery, Judah married a Canaanite woman and had three sons, the first two of whom, Er and Onan, died because of their sins, and then shortly thereafter his wife died. The Sforno explains that...