by Rabbi Sender Haber | Mar 19, 2010
“You are Holy, and Your name is Holy, and Holy ones will praise you daily” Besides for being a popular Israeli song, these words are part of the Shemona Esrei that we recite three times each day. The strange thing is that we only mention the idea of...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jul 2, 2009
Bilaam had a very personal relationship with Hashem. He spoke to Hashem and Hashem spoke back. The poetry and prose found in this week’s parsha is very possibly the most beautiful Poetry found in the Torah. From a poetic perspective, his words seem to be even more...
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 13, 2009
Moshe was receiving the Torah on Har Sinai. Suddenly, Hashem told Moshe, “You need to leave now. Your Jewish people have taken a turn have made themselves a Golden Calf. They are dancing around it and worshipping it, saying ‘this is your god who took you out of...
