by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 17, 2015
Ten Utterances The Mishna teaches us that the world was created with “Ten Utterances”. G-d made ten verbal statements that brought the world into being. This is to teach us that the righteous who uphold the world will get reward and the evildoers who destroy it will...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 15, 2015
Ben Zoma and Ben Azzai Shimon ben Zoman and Shimon ben Azai were two outstanding scholars in their generation. Both passed away at a young age before they had attained the title of ‘Rabi’. Ben Zoma is noted for his intellect. The Talmud tells us that if someone saw...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 15, 2015
Yosi Ben Yochanan was the Head of the Rabbinic Court. He and Yosi Ben Yoezer led the Jewish people for a generation. Both were charged with continuing the legacy of Antigonus Ish Socho that had been so true and yet so ill received by some of their peers. Yosi Ben...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 5, 2015
I once got a call from a friend. I had just made a decision. He wasn’t really involved in the decision, but he called me. “Rabbi Haber”, He said, “let me tell you a story”. One day a boy and his father took a day off to go flying in a small airplane. There were some...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 3, 2015
The Holy Tanna, Rabi Shimon Bar Yochai was the author of the Zohar. His Yahrzheit is not a day of mourning but a day of celebration because he taught that on the anniversary of a Tzaddik’s death his soul rises to yet a higher level in heaven. Amidst a discussion about...
