by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 21, 2014
A Chok is a Mitzvah without any apparent reason. Some Mitzvos, like kindness, Tzadaka, and not killing are commandments that could have emerged in any thinking society. Other mitzvos, like Shofar and Lulav, are Mitzvos that we do just because Hashem told us to do...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 14, 2014
Knowledge is a dangerous thing, especially when it is biblical. To know something biblically is to become intimately and personally familiar with it in a way that we cannot separate ourselves from our knowledge. We grow up knowing that everything G-d does is for the...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 28, 2014
A few years ago, I worked with my star student Michael on his Bar Mitzva speech for parshas Pikudei. He did a great job. Michael was talking about himself, but I think that the Bar Mitzvah boy inside each one of us can relate: This morning, I read to you about the...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 14, 2014
Moshe was up on Har Sinai receiving the Torah when Hashem told him, “You need to leave now. Your Jewish people have made themselves a Golden Calf. They have made a wrong turn and are heading in the wrong direction. They are dancing around the calf and worshipping it,...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 23, 2014
The Torah is not just a compendium of rules. It is a lifestyle. It is a value system. It our own personal instruction book and owner’s manual, written by G-d himself. It was the ultimate wake up call to the Jewish soul. A wake up call that we have remembered and...
