by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 19, 2012
I The Jewish people complained to Moshe. He had come to help them, but he had only succeeded in making things worse. Before Moshe came, the Jewish slaves had been supplied with enough straw to fulfill their brick making quotas. Now they had to find their own straw....
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 12, 2012
Rav Mendel Weinbach once approached Rav Michel Twerski with a dilemma. As the Rosh Yeshiva of one of the premier “Baal Teshuva” Yeshivos in the world, Rav Weinbach was often asked to accept students who had been born Orthodox but were not flourishing in the Yeshiva...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Nov 11, 2011
While learning in the Mir Yeshiva, I once approached Reb Nosson Tzvi Finkel with a difficulty that I had encountered in a gemara in Kesuvos. The Rosh Yeshiva listened carefully to my articulated question and spent several minutes in thought. I stood awkwardly and...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Nov 1, 2011
A friend of mine is the founder and director of a gardening program at the University of Maryland. They plant a garden, tend to it, and donate the fruits to the needy. The students at Maryland call their program ‘Am Ha’aretz’, but I think that it could just as...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Oct 6, 2011
Before my last trip to Israel, I invited my third grade students to write notes to G-d. There is an ancient custom to put messages in the Western Wall and I thought that it would be a meaningful and worthy exercise. I promised not to read the notes and encouraged the...
