by Rabbi Sender Haber | Dec 14, 2010
Many of my childhood memories are cold and stormy. I grew up in Buffalo, NY who’s major natural resource is snow. To be sure, the Jewish Community of Buffalo is a friendly and vibrant community, but we spent our share of time watching the snow and waiting for a...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 13, 2009
Living a Torah life in a spiritual wasteland is like making a Minyan on an Airplane. Davening in shul can be inspiring for participants and spectators; Davening on a plane is often inspiring to neither. Reb Yosi Ben Kisma held that Torah should not be brought to...
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 23, 2009
Rabbi Shalom Shwadron used to tell the story about a group of children who were playing at a certain family’s home. One of the children suddenly incurred a serious accident, and had to be taken to hospital. The hostess had the unenviable task of breaking the news to...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Oct 31, 2008
Several years ago the Norfolk Kollel was invited to Present in the Old Dominion University as part of their Jewish Symposium. I presented my understanding of the parallels between Orwell’s 1984 and the Dor Haflagah (Tower of Babylon). The main idea was based on...
