by Rabbi Sender Haber | Sep 27, 2015
The Torah commands us sit in the Sukkah for seven days so that we can remember that G-d put us in Sukkos when we left Egypt. The commandment is to dwell in the Sukkah as we would in our house. If it is raining, we are not obligated to sit in the Succah. As a matter of...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | Jul 9, 2015
The daughters of Tzelafched were upset because their father had died and there was nobody to inherit his land. They approached “Moshe, Elazar, and the heads of the tribes with their query” (27:1-2). This seems odd. Once they approached Moshe, why would they approach...
by Rabbi Sender Haber | May 22, 2015
We know that the Jewish people were never counted directly. Each Jew would give a half-shekel coin and that Half-shekel coin would be counted. This is the halacha until today. We do not count Jews. We can count hats and lists of names and possibly noses or fingers –...
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 | Apr 30, 2015
Moshe taught us the fifty one mitzvos found in this week’s parsha. He began with the commandment: “Kedoshim Tihiyu’ – You must be holy. We are all familiar with holiness. Hopefully, we’ve been in contact with holy individuals, experienced holy times and visited holy...
