by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 3, 2016
None of us are perfect. We are born half good and half bad. That is part of being human. There will always be a part of us that is insensitive, egotistic, and irrational. There is another half as well that is full of holiness, giving, and yearning. We will never...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 12, 2016
The Torah portion that we just read discussed the building of the Mishkan. The Mishkan was the dwelling place for G-d in this world. If as G-d could have a house here on earth this parsha tells us what it would look like. The Torah goes to great lengths to describe to...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 1, 2016
Hashem appeared to Moshe in the Bush because a Bush is a lowly shrub. It symbolizes humility. The Torah tells us that the Angel of Hashem appeared as a fire burning in the bush, but the bush was not consumed. Moshe said, “Let me turn for a minute and take a look. Why...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 27, 2015
The Torah commands us sit in the Sukkah for seven days so that we can remember that G-d put us in Sukkos when we left Egypt. The commandment is to dwell in the Sukkah as we would in our house. If it is raining, we are not obligated to sit in the Succah. As a matter of...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 11, 2015
One year is ending and another is beginning. We stand before G-d and ask him to bless us this year. We think of all of the good things that happened over the past year and hope that they will be repeated and multiplied. We think of all of the bad things – or the not...
