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...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 2, 2009
A Series of Thoughts on the Hagada Note: The following is a somewhat involved and complicated thought process based on the Hagada and the mitzvah to remember our Exodus from Egypt. I hope that it serves as a springboard for thought and an opportunity to find new...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 29, 2009
My parents named their eleventh child Yosef. He’s a good looking, charming and well-liked young man. At this point, my father spends more time with him than with the rest of his sons. We call him the ‘Ben Zikunim’, the son of our parents’ old age. Despite emerging and...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 20, 2009
“The blossoms have appeared in the land; the time of singing has arrived and the call of the turtledove is heard in our land.” (Song of Songs 2:12) The TurtleDove (Streptopelia turtur) gets her name from her distinctive, purring, gentle and evocative TurTur sound as...
