by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 17, 2010
It was the year that the cholent blew up. The yeshiva cholent pot was a little bit too full. The oil boiled over and dripped into the flame, causing an explosion on Friday night. The fire marshals came and didn’t like what they saw. They closed down the Yeshiva for a...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 19, 2010
“You are Holy, and Your name is Holy, and Holy ones will praise you daily” Besides for being a popular Israeli song, these words are part of the Shemona Esrei that we recite three times each day. The strange thing is that we only mention the idea of...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 14, 2010
This morning, as my cousin led the congregation in Kedusha, I couldn’t help but think of our great-grandfather Yehoshua Binyamin Yudin, Zichrono l’vracha. My great-grandfather passed away while his children were still very young. Two years later, exactly eighty...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 17, 2010
“Any location that is populated by ten Jews is obligated to appropriate a house where they can congregate for prayer whenever it is time to pray. This place is called a Beis Hakneses.” (Rambam, Mishna Torah, Laws of Prayer, Chapter 12) Residents may force each...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 26, 2009
In 1920 (or thereabouts) a car made its way down Rechov Yaffo. It was not the first car to arrive in Jerusalem or even the first car to drive down Rechov Yaffo, but it was unusual. All of the students, teachers and staff poured out of the Eitz Chaim Yeshiva to have a...
