by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Jan 28, 2016 | Yitro
The Slonimer Rebbe, of blessed memory, asked: On Friday night when we sit down to our Shabbos meal the first thing we do is welcome the Angels into our home. “Shalom Aleichem! Malachei HaShareis.” G-d sends the holiest guests to our home when we make...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Jan 30, 2015 | Beshalach
Some Talmudic history. When Rav Yehudah HaNasi died his son suggested that Rebbe Chanina become the new leader of Klal Yisroel. Rebbe Chanina declined. He knew that he had qualified colleagues that had their heart set on the top job. The last thing he wanted to do was...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Jan 9, 2015 | Shemot
Moshe was eighty years old when he stumbled upon the burning bush. He was a senior shepherd entering into the final trimester of his life. He was a poor man. Those weren’t his own flocks that he was watching, they belonged to his aged father-in-law Yisro. He had...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Dec 26, 2014 | Fast of the 10th of Tevet, Vayigash
This Thursday we will commemorate the Tenth of Tevet. The day Nebuchadnezar began his occupation of Jerusalem. All the Jews had lived in the Land of Israel for eight hundred and fifty years. The Bais HaMikdash in Jerusalem, built by Shlomo HaMelech, was four hundred...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | May 2, 2014 | Sefer Vayikra, Emor
I once read an astounding study that affects us all. A certain philanthropist in Long Island is funding an academic study on the “fallout” from Judaism. Why are so many children falling through the cracks of the Jewish community? We all have our own ideas and theories...
