by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Apr 8, 2011 | Tazria, Rosh Chodesh, Metzora, Pesach/Passover
Depending on who and when you ask the Jewish year either begins in the month of Tishrei, at Rosh Hashanah time, or a couple of weeks before Pesach in Nissan. Why do we have two new years? The answer lies in the season of each New Year. Tishrei and Rosh Hashanah occur...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Mar 22, 2010 | Tzav, Pesach/Passover
One of the great heroes of the Holocaust was Reb Kalman Klonymus Shapiro, the Piazetzner Rebbe. In the prime of his life as a Rebbe he was taken into the hell of the Warsaw Ghetto. He had a work load like everyone else, suffered from malnutrition, and was surrounded...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Apr 14, 2008 | Pesach/Passover
While visiting London last year, I heard the following story from a 19 year old Jewish girl who was vacationing in a beach house in Thailand when the Tsunami hit. Within moments she was underwater. Running on pure adrenaline she tried to get her head above water but...
