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Parshas Vayakhel – Shekalim 5771

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH VAYAKHEL 5771  “NO CARRY-OVER” February 27, 2010 Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap By DAN BILEFSKY WARSAW — When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before […]

Parshas Vayakhel – Shekalim 5771

“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Vayakhel – Shekalim Mevorchim Chodesh Adar II 24 Adar I 5776/ March Forth, 2016               I spend my afternoons in the warm environs of Mesivta Ohr Naftoli in New Windsor, NY, where I am the Principal of the Secular Studies department. Once a week the students […]

NETZOVIM-VAYELECH 5771

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: STAM TORAH NETZOVIM-VAYELECH 5771 “FACING WHICH DIRECTION” Rabbi Elya Meir Bloch zt’l was once in the Chicago train station with a few of his students, waiting to […]

NETZOVIM-VAYELECH 5771

Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshios Netzavim- Vayelech 24 Elul 5771/September 23, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 5 & 6 During the last day or two of camp when I wake up my divisions, I jokingly tell them that they better get out of bed because if they miss the bus home […]

KI SAVO 5771

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: STAM TORAH KI SAVO 5771 “EVERLASTING JOY1” Rabbi Noach Weinberg zt’l would often relate that what he felt was the key to everlasting happiness could be understood […]

KI SAVO 5771

Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Savo 17 Elul 5771/September 16, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 3 & 4 What a tzaddik I am! Or at least that’s the way it must have appeared. I walked out of my house one crisp Sunday morning in late October last year, heading towards […]

KI SEITZEI 5771

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: STAM TORAH KI SEITZEI 5771 “ELEVATING LIFE” One day during this past summer our family visited Quiet Valley Historical Farm in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. It is a historic […]

KI SEITZEI 5771

Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Seitzei 10 Elul 5771/September 9, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 2 A rebbe recounted that one day last year there was a large map spread out across his desk. A student was gazing at it fascinatingly for a few moments before he remarked, “Wow rebbe; […]

SHOFTIM 5771

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: STAM TORAH SHOFTIM 5771 “RIGHT OR LEFT” I have heard the following story related by Rabbi Mordechai Finkelman shlita, the beloved Mashgiach of Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim in […]

Shoftim 5771

Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Shoftim 3 Elul 5771/September 2, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapters 1& 2 I’m not really sure who invited her but, invitation or not, Irene burst across the East Coast with a fury this past week. No one knew for certain the course the storm would take, […]