by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 28, 2014
A few years ago, I worked with my star student Michael on his Bar Mitzva speech for parshas Pikudei. He did a great job. Michael was talking about himself, but I think that the Bar Mitzvah boy inside each one of us can relate: This morning, I read to you about the...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 23, 2014
The Torah is not just a compendium of rules. It is a lifestyle. It is a value system. It our own personal instruction book and owner’s manual, written by G-d himself. It was the ultimate wake up call to the Jewish soul. A wake up call that we have remembered and...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jan 16, 2014
There are so many elements to Parshas Beshalach: the splitting of the sea, the Mon, and the war with Amalek. Still Shira seems to be the focal point for which the shabbos is named. Shira can be translated as song, as poetry, or even random sounds. It is an...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Dec 19, 2013
It is interesting to note that Reuvein is given credit by the Torah for saving Yosef. He really didn’t do much. He got Yosef thrown into a pit so that he could come back and save him but when he came back to save him Yosef, Yosef had been sold. According to the Gemara...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Dec 11, 2013
Yosef moved to Mitzrayim when he was seventeen years old. All of the Jews in the world had shunned him and sold him down the river. He was very young and he had no support system. When Potiphar’s wife tried to seduce Yosef he almost succumbed. The Gemara tells us that...
