by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 20, 2016
Introduction In about a week, we will fulfill the Mitzvah to relive and retell the story of our Exodus from Egypt. Actually, we are obligated to remember the Exodus every single day and every week. We mention Yetzias Mitzrayim in Shema and in Kiddush. On Pesach, Rav...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 28, 2016
We read two songs last week. The first was sung by all of the Jewish people on the banks of the Yam Suf; the second was sung two hundred years later by Devorah and Barak at the top of Mount Tavor in Israel. Har Tavor is one of the highest mountains in the Middle East...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 1, 2016
The frogs seem to be an odd part of the story of the Exodus. Water turning to blood, wild animals, blackouts, death and disease seem pretty standard, but frogs are cute. One year my wife ordered one hundred frogs from oriental trading had my kids throw them at me...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Dec 11, 2015
There was once a group of researchers who went to North Africa and planted tomatoes. They felt really good about themselves for pioneering a new source of food and revenue for the natives. Indeed, the tomatoes were beautiful. Just as the tomatoes were about to ripen...
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...
