by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 15, 2012
The following are two shiurim that I recently gave on Rabi Akiva and his life. Part One: A Drop at a Time It is always worthwhile to spend a few minutes telling the story of Rabi Akiva. Many of us know the story of Rabi Akiva, but many people do not. Besides, there is...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 4, 2012
Many people will remember Rav Simcha Schustal as one of the most pleasant and joyful people that they have encountered. I will remember him yelling at his Chavrusa. It happened on the day that Rav Simcha disagreed with Rav Shach’s approach to a Gemara. The teenaged...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 27, 2012
“Oh, how I love Your Torah. I speak of it all day”. “Mah Ahavti Sorasecha. Kol Hayom Hi Sichasi”. (Psalms 119) When King David said those words, he wasn’t referring to a class that he had taught, a psalm he had written, or a ruling that he had given. King David was...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 23, 2011
We will never know who was Rav Mordechai Feinstein was. Rav Moshe Feinstein was a well-known tzaddik and one of the foremost Halachic authorities of his generation. He wrote thousands of brilliant Teshuvos (responsa) and published seven volumes of Igros Moshe during...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 25, 2011
My seven-year-old daughter recently asked for a puzzle of a Gadol. In the age of ‘Gedolim Memory’ and ‘Gedolim Guess Who’, her request is perfectly reasonable but still slightly odd. I can’t help but imagine completing a puzzle only to realize that Rav Shach’s...
