PENNY FOR YOUR PENNY
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Bamidbar, Erev Shavuos 4 Sivan 5779/June 7, 2019 Avos perek 6 – 48sh day of the Omer PENNY FOR YOUR PENNY I once heard the following observation – if someone tells you “A penny for your thoughts” and you stick in your two cents, do you […]
Shavuos
SHAVUOS Can you figure out what each picture has to do with Shavuos? Rabbi Dani Staum stamtorah@gmail.com KEY to Shavuos Pix Staying awake all night – There is a prevalent custom to learn Torah through the night on Shavuosto “rectify” the fact that our ancestors had to be woken for Kabbolas HaTorah (see below). The […]
Shavuos 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shavuos 5 Sivan 5784/ June 11, 2024 49th day of the Omer NAMING STARS As I get older it seems to only be getting worse. I’m really bad at recognizing names and faces. In this regard my wife and I are opposites. She doesn’t forget a face, […]
Parshas Bamidbar, Shavuos 5782
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Bamidbar Erev Shavuos 4 Sivan 5782/June 3, 2022 Avos perek 6 – 48th day of Omer לזכר נשמת חו”מ נטע יצחק בן אלכסנדר I am happy to report that my Striving Higher Haggadah is currently being edited and will be published by Mosaica Press […]
Parshas Bamidbar – Shavuos 5781
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Bamidbar 47th day of the Omer – Avos perek 6 3 Sivan 5781/May 14, 2021 Shavuos To be added to my “Striving Higher” WhatsApp chat with periodic chizuk clips, or my “Power Parenting” WhatsApp chat with weekly ideas about parenting, text me at 845-641-5094. […]
Shavuos 5780
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shavuos – Z’man Mattan Toraseinu 5 Sivan 5780/May 28, 2020 49th day of the Omer THE ROAD TO SINAI Last week, I saw that a new Sefer on Megillas Rus had been published. I was excited by the publication and very much wanted to have it before Shavuos, so […]
PARSHAS BAMIDBAR/SHAVUOS 5779
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh parshas Bamidbar, Erev Shavuos 4 Sivan 5779/June 7, 2019 Avos perek 6 – 48sh day of the Omer This winter, I had quite a saga with cars, tickets, and insurance claims. Leaving out many other details for the moment, I had a court appearance date in Lakewood […]
PARSHAS BAMIDBAR/SHAVUOS 5779
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BAMIDBAR/SHAVUOS 5779 “THE INNER VOICE”[1] One night, an elementary school teacher was sitting on her living room couch grading the essay’s her students wrote about something they wished for. Her husband was sitting next to her checking his emails and social media accounts. Just when the teacher thought she’d finished […]
SHAVUOS 5777
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shavuos – Z’man Matan Toraseinu (49th day of the Omer) 5 Sivan 5777/ May 30, 2017 Last week, as my chavrusa, R’ Yossi Weimer, and I were finishing our morning learning session, I overheard someone on the next table excitedly and passionately exclaim, “Do you understand this sevara (logical argument in […]
SHAVUOS 5777
STAM TORAH SHAVUOS 5777 “THE MESSAGE OF SHAVUOS” The following are my notes from lectures given by Rabbi Berel Wein, (then) Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaarei Torah, Monsey, NY, to the students of the yeshiva, on Erev Shavuos 5756 & Erev Shavuos 5757. I have largely tried to preserve the Rosh Yeshiva’s vernacular: Of the […]