by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 2, 2010
1986 was the year of the Great Matza Shortage (I think). Two key Matza bakeries burned down and people had to scramble to get three large, round, hand-baked Matzos for each Seder. I remember my father driving two hours to Toronto on Erev Pesach just to get Matzos,...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 24, 2010
“The conquest will not be through strength or power; it will be with my spirit”. – G-d (to Zecharia in 4:6) The land of Israel was blessed with two types of holiness. When Zecharia’s generation regained Israel after the Babylonian exile, the conquest...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 5, 2009
Yesterday, my good friend and student Yaakov Wilson celebrated his Bar Mitzvah. Yaakov is one of the most remarkable people I know and together we composed a timely Bar Mitzvah speech. I am posing it here – sans merci* – for your edification. (Please note...
