by Rabbi Sender Haber | Apr 2, 2010
1986 was the year of the Great Matza Shortage (I think). Two key Matza bakeries burned down and people had to scramble to get three large, round, hand-baked Matzos for each Seder. I remember my father driving two hours to Toronto on Erev Pesach just to get Matzos,...
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 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 | Mar 14, 2010
This morning, as my cousin led the congregation in Kedusha, I couldn’t help but think of our great-grandfather Yehoshua Binyamin Yudin, Zichrono l’vracha. My great-grandfather passed away while his children were still very young. Two years later, exactly eighty...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Feb 17, 2010
“Any location that is populated by ten Jews is obligated to appropriate a house where they can congregate for prayer whenever it is time to pray. This place is called a Beis Hakneses.” (Rambam, Mishna Torah, Laws of Prayer, Chapter 12) Residents may force each...
