by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jun 20, 2013
On June 19th, 2013, I was honored to share the following words with the graduating class of Toras Chaim elementary school in Portsmouth, VA: The evil prophet Bilaam went up on a mountain so that he could look down and see how isolated and alone we were. We weren’t...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jun 13, 2013
“Because you did not believe in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel…” (Bamidbar 20:12) Moshe was punished because he did not sanctify G-d’s name. He did not make a Kidddush Hashem. When I was a kid they told us that we had to behave nicely...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 31, 2013
About five hundred years ago Rav Elazar Ezkari of Tzfas wrote the “Sefer Chareidim”. Not directly related to the “Chareidim” of today, Rav Ezkari’s objective was to catalog the obligations of a Jew and organize them according to the various limbs. The Chareidim was a...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 26, 2013
As the home of the world’s largest naval base as well as several important Army, Air Force and Coast Guard bases, our shul is privileged to be host to many veteran and active duty members of the military. As a matter of fact, we even had an admiral come to the kiddush...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 5, 2013
I once attended an event sponsored by the Maimonides Society. The speaker was Dr. Howard Jones. One remarkable thing about Dr. Jones is that in 1978, at the age of 67, he was forced into retirement from Johns Hopkins University. He moved to Shirley Avenue in Norfolk...
