PARSHAS VAESCHANAN / NACHAMU 5779
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAESCHANAN /NACHAMU 5779 “A WISE CHOICE” Question: As you know, my wife is a little behind me when it comes to religious observance. One thing she challenged me on and I didn’t have an answer. Last week I forgot to leave the light on in the bathroom before Shabbos. She wanted to turn it on, but I […]
PARSHAS VAESCHANAN / NACHAMU 5779
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Vaeschanan – Shabbas Nachamu 15 (Tu) Menachem Av 5779/August 16, 2019 – Avos perek 4 I came to a fascinating realization recently: The people who are paid the highest salaries in our society are those who distract us. Think about it – who gets paid […]
PARSHAS DEVORIM/CHAZON 5779
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Devorim – Shabbas Chazon 8 Menachem Av 5779/August 9, 2019 – Avos perek 3 Rabbi Moshe Feinstein zt”l was recognized throughout the Torah world as the foremost halachic authority and the leader of his time. As the ambulance sped through the streets of Manhattan carrying […]
PARSHAS DEVORIM/CHAZON 5779
STAM TORAH PARSHAS DEVORIM/CHAZON 5779 “INDIVIDUAL GREATNESS” The Ribnitzer Rebbe[1] was known as a pious and holy Jew. Stories abound of his extreme Avodas Hashem as well as the supernatural effects of his blessing. Today, hundreds visit his burial plot in Monsey, NY constantly to daven. The Rebbe had private minyanim and he was […]
PARSHAS MATOS-MASEI 5779
STAM TORAH PARSHAS MATOS-MASEI 5779 “THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY” An elderly man was asked what it’s like to become old. He responded, “I don’t know; I’m still learning.” This week marks the Shloshim for my beloved Bubby, Fruma bas Lieber a’h. During the last twenty years, when I would ask Bubby how she was […]
PARSHAS MATOS-MASEI 5779
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Matos-Masei Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av 5779/August 2, 2019 – Avos perek 2 There is a certain thrill to be in an environment in which a person normally cannot survive in for any extended period of time. It gives the feeling of defying and traversing nature. […]
PARSHAS PINCHOS 5779
STAM TORAH PARSHAS PINCHOS 5779 “FRUITS OF DILIGENCE” Rabbi Eliezer Silver zt”l[1] was a brilliant scholar, who spared no effort to help fellow Jews and to preserve traditional Torah Judaism. He was the President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada and one of American Jewry’s foremost religious leaders. […]
PARSHAS PINCHOS 5779
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Pinchos 26 Tamuz 5779/July 26, 2019 – Avos perek 1 Mevorchim Chodesh Menachem Av It’s not easy for parents to send off their children to sleepaway camp. Besides being a tremendous expense, it’s emotionally taxing to send a child away for four or eight weeks. […]
PARSHAS BALAK 5779
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BALAK 5779 “NOT SO BLISSFUL” I was eighteen years old, and I had gotten my license a few months earlier. I was driving on a main road near Monsey, feeling very confident and grown-up. I was making a left turn, crossing a busy intersection into a shopping mall, when a car […]
PARSHAS BALAK 5779
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Balak 16 Tamuz 5779/July 19, 2019 – Avos perek 6 Last week, the morning before we left on a trip, our head counselor here in Camp Dora Golding, Rabbi A.C. Posner, shared with the campers a post from a Sullivan county Facebook page which was […]