PARSHAS RE’EH 5776
Rabbi Dani Staum STAM TORAH PARSHAS RE’EH 5776 “WITH WARMTH AND LOVE” The peace of a Friday night in Jerusalem was shattered by an eruption of shouting and angry voices. Rabbi Rafael Grossman, the rabbi of a synagogue in Tennessee, peered out his hotel room window and saw a religious Jew blocking a taxi from […]
PARSHAS RE’EH 5776
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Re’eh Erev Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Elul 29 Menachem Av 5776/ September 2, 2016 Pirkei Avos – Perek 5 On a Sunday afternoon a number of years ago, my in laws were visiting us from Lakewood, and we went to a local pizza shop here in Monsey […]
Parshas Eikev 5776
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Eikev Mevorchim Chodesh Elul 22 Menachem Av 5776/ August 26, 2016 Pirkei Avos – Perek 4 It’s been a gratifying and enjoyable, yet exhausting summer season. And now after eight wonderful weeks at Camp Dora Golding, we have returned home. It takes a few days before […]
PARSHAS EIKEV 5776
Rabbi Dani Staum STAM TORAH PARSHAS EIKEV 5776 “FLOWING LIFE” Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber zt’l was a legendary leader of Russian Jewry for over three decades. He remained resolutely firm in his faith and practicing of Torah and mitzvos throughout his arduous years behind the Iron Curtain, even in the brutality of a Russian Labor Camp. […]
PARSHAS VAESCHANAN 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH SHABBOS NACHAMU PARSHAS VAESCHANAN 5776 “THE POWER OF ONE” On January 6, 2011, the Gluck family – a wonderful family in our community and personal friends – celebrated the wedding of their daughter Reina to […]
PARSHAS VAESCHANAN 5776
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Vaeschanan – Shabbos Nachamu 15 Menachem Av 5776/ August 19, 2016 During the summer of 1991, I was a camper in the intermediate division of Camp Dora Golding. One day, I got off my bed and began walking across my bunkhouse when I stepped on something […]
PARSHAS DEVORIM SHABBOS CHAZON 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH SHABBOS CHAZON PARSHAS DEVORIM 5776 “FALLEN PRIDE” Aharon Barnea, a well-known news anchor in Israeli media, related the following story about a high level Palestinian militant leader named Salah Tamari[1]: Tamari was a fierce fighter […]
Parshas Devorim – Shabbos Chazon 5776
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Devorim – Shabbos Chazon 8 Menachem Av 5776/ August 12, 2016 Earlier this week someone forwarded me a touchingly beautiful and masterfully produced video, entitled “Letting Go”. Narrated by Rabbi Yoel Gold, it depicts the incredible story of a man who forgave his childhood friend who […]
Parshas Matos-Masei 5776
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Matos-Masei Pirkei Avos perek 2 Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av 5776/ August 5, 2016 This week as Chani was getting ready to leave for her scheduled doctor’s appointment, our almost three year old son, Dovid, said to her: “You no need to go Doctor, Mommy. I give […]
PARSHAS MATOS- MASEI 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS MATOS 5776 “SERIOUS BUSINESS” Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash and it is gone; But there’s half-a-hundred ripples, circling on and on and on, Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on […]