by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Apr 27, 2007 | Ekev
Sensitive people are able to feel what others cannot. Space has its markers. When we visit places that we had visited as a child the energy of that place is released and brings back all the memories that seemed to be stored up there waiting for you to return and enjoy...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Sep 24, 1999 | Sukkot
Someone told me a joke on Friday. There were two brothers living together. One was a medical doctor and the other was a Rabbi with a Ph.D. in Theology. Someone called the house and asked for Dr. Schwartz. “Which one?” asked the housekeeper, “the one...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | May 5, 1991 | Bereishit, Shavuot
The very first Rashi in the Torah makes the following comment. “Really, the Torah should have began with Hachodesh Hazeh Lochem (the Mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh) but a time will come when the nations of the world will call us burglars for taking the land of Israel....
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | May 5, 1987 | Shavuot
The Torah, in describing the Giving of the Law, says: “And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet G-d, and they stood at the bottom of the mountain” (Exod. 19:17). The actual Hebrew for the last phrase is: “Visyatzvu BESACHTIS hahar”,...