by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jul 18, 2010
Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg was famous for being in jail. He was the last of the Tosafists and a respected leader of his generation. He was incarcerated for trying to make Aliyah and avoid Servi Camerae under Rudolph I in 1286. If it wasn’t for the Maharam Rothenburg we...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jul 2, 2010
This week Rabbi Schwartz wrote a beautiful article about Eretz Yisroel. It wasn’t the new and beautiful concepts he mentioned that made it special, it was the fact that he is actually moving to Eretz Yisrael next week. Similarly, when the Benos Tzlafchad’s had their...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jun 30, 2010
The only amendment to Shemona Esrei on the 17th of Tammuz is during Mincha. The reason given is because the Tefila of Aneinu was composed by Ellijah the prophet during the time of the Mincha. The scripture tells us that Eliyahu was only answered at Mincha. The...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jun 10, 2010
Traffic in Boro Park is one of the hardest things to explain. How can anybody rest on Shabbos, speak with Hashem three times a day, give tzedaka and double park? I was asking myself that question just before I ducked into Munkacz on Sixteenth Avenue last Wednesday. I...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 26, 2010
One hundred years ago, things didn’t look too good for Orthodox Jews on these shores. When my great-grandfather disembarked in Charleston the community was already challenged by assimilation and ignorance. Thankfully there were enough stubborn and learned people to...
