PARSHIOS VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI PARSHAS PARAH 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHIOS VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI PARSHAS PARAH 5778 “RELATABLE GREATNESS”[1] Someone once presented the Chofetz Chaim with the Tehillim that had belonged to his mother. The Chofetz Chaim clutched the worn volume close to his heart and, with tears streaming down his cheeks, remarked, “Who knows how many tefillos and how many tears my mother shed […]
PARSHAS KI SISA 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SISA 5778 “RELATABLE GREATNESS”[1] After the passing of the beloved Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel z”tl, R’ Mordechai Grunwald, executive director of Yeshivas Mir and a close talmid of Rav Nosson Tzvi, was asked to deliver a hesped at the Yeshiva Gedolah of Teaneck. Amongst many stories that he […]
PARSHAS KI SISA 5778
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Sisa SHUSHAN PURIM 15 Adar 5778/March 2, 2018 Last Friday, as President Trump took the podium at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), he noticed his own reflection on television, and remarked that he would love to hear that guy speak. He then turned around began […]
PARSHAS TETZAVEH/ZACHOR PURIM 5778
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Tetzaveh 8 Adar 5778/February 23, 2018 Parshas Zachor In case, you are afraid that the honor and respect conferred upon rabbis goes to their heads, rest assured that rabbis have a built-in ‘humility promoter’. They are called sermon snoozers. Most of them seem to sit in […]
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PARSHAS TETZAVEH/ZACHOR PURIM 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS TETZAVEH/ZACHOR PURIM 5778 “EXPRESSION OF LOVE”[1] Rav Meir Goldwicht shlita related the following personal story: “In 1967, I was a young elementary school, student. My father was one of the tzanchanim (paratroopers) who were present when the Kosel was liberated. The afternoon after it was recaptured, he was one of those […]
PARSHAS TERUMAH 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS TERUMAH 5778 “NATONAL SOCKETS”[1] Yerushalayim. June 1967. Moshe Amirav, a paratrooper, describes his first moments arriving at the Kosel, shortly after Har Habayis was conquered from the Jordanians, during the Six-Day War: “We ran there, a group of panting soldiers, lost on the plaza of the Temple Mount, searching for a giant […]
PARSHAS TERUMAH 5778
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Terumah 1 Adar 5778/February 16, 2018 2 Rosh Chodesh Adar I don’t know if there’s anything worse than being a sock. Socks are put on hastily in the morning and have the inauspicious task of wrapping around a person’s smelly foot. They quickly become smelly, and often […]
PARSHAS MISHPATIM/SHEKALIM 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS MISHPATIM/SHEKALIM 5778 “MUNDANE GREATNESS”[1] Mike began to panic. Sweat formed on his brow and his whole body began to quiver. He knew he was in serious trouble as he gripped the steering wheel with all his might and pushed the pedal to the floor. At a hundred and thirty miles an hour […]
PARSHAS MISHPATIM/SHEKALIM 5778
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Mishpatim/Shekalim 24 Shevat 5778/February 9, 2018 Mevorchim Chodesh Adar Someone once noted that it’s not easy being the child of a therapist. Everything that happens in the child’s life is psychoanalyzed – why did you do that? How did that make you feel? For my children that’s […]