by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 14, 2019
I The wicked son wants to know “What is this work to you?”, because he removed himself from the Klal – the Jewish people – he has denied the main thing. We blunt his teeth and tell him “Hashem did this for me when I left Egypt”. If he were there he would...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 19, 2015
At the very end of my second Seder, my wife rose to count Sefirah and took a moment to explain how we are counting our way to Shavuos and growing each day of the forty nine days ahead of us. Everyone at the table counted, but one woman was puzzled. “I enjoyed this...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 22, 2015
The end of this week’s Parsha was one of the highest points in the spiritual history of the Jewish nation. The Jewish people were almost ready to leave Egypt. They had suffered enough, they were caring for one another, and they had very strong Jewish identities. G-d...
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 | 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...
