by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jul 22, 2013
Several months ago, I received an email from a Navy Officer asking me not to sell his Chometz. He could have sold it to me, but he felt like the buyer would have no access. The Chametz was in an undisclosed and secure location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, or...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jul 18, 2013
About fifteen years ago, I joined a group of ten Yeshiva Bochurim and we went on vacation. We rented a house on Hunter Mountain in Upstate New York and we planned daily activities for ourselves. There was a tiny, old, shul in Hunter and (even though we had our own...
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...
