Parshas Vayakhel 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Vayakhel 28 Adar I 5784/ March 9, 2024 Mevorchim Chodesh Adar II – Shekalim EMOTIONAL EXTENSION CORDS Doing construction is exciting and simultaneously exceedingly frustrating and trying on one’s patience. One of the things I remember most about when we did construction was myriad […]
Parshas Ki Sisa 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Sisa 21 Adar I 5784/ March 2, 2024 MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE In a recent edition of her daily WhatsApp, Sivan Rahav-Meir, disseminated the following: “Kama Hochman is a 7-year-old girl who lives in Bnei Netzarim, a charming little moshav in southern Israel. Her […]
Parshas Tetzaveh 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Tetzaveh 14 Adar I 5784/ February 23, 2024 Purim Katan A LITTLE MORE TIME R’ Benzion Dunner of London was renown as a tremendously charitable philanthropist. He would say that he viewed himself as a ‘gabbai tzedakah’; that G-d had granted him wealth merely […]
Parshas Teruma 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Terumah 7 Adar I 5784/ February 16, 2024 IN THE MIDDLE When flying, some people prefer aisle seats, so they don’t have to bother anyone else when they want to get up. Other people prefer the window seat so they can enjoy the incredible […]
Parshas Mishpatim 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Yisro 23 Shevat 5784/ February 2, 2024 Mevorchim Chodesh Adar I HUMBLE SPIKE My personal breakfast of champions each morning includes a bowl of Cheerios. Not honey nut, frosted, banana, chocolate or even mayonnaise flavored Cheerios, but good ol’ regular cheerios. Recently, when […]
Parshas Yisro 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Yisro 23 Shevat 5784/ February 2, 2024 Mevorchim Chodesh Adar I STEP UP There aren’t many people who are able to impact and influence masses of Jews throughout the world. Rav Matisyahu Salomon zt”l, the late Lakewood Mashgiach, was one such rare individual. Aside from […]
Parshas Beshalach 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Beshalach/Shabbos Shirah 16 Shevat 5784/ January 26, 2024 BEYOND HOME I just returned from a wonderful week in Eretz Yisroel. The main purpose of my trip was to visit our two children who are learning there this year. However, due to the war and that […]
Parshas Bo 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Bo 9 Shevat 5784/ January 19, 2024 COME AND LISTEN It’s been said that the only one who hears both sides of an argument is the next door neighbor. When I was a social work student at Fordham University, I mostly kept my opinions to […]
Parshas Vaeira 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Vaera 2 Shevat 5784/ January 12, 2024 UNABASHEDLY Recently, I attended a Sheva Berachos at which the mother of the Kallah spoke. She expressed her tremendous feelings of gratitude to her family and friends and extolled the virtues of her daughter the Kallah and new […]
Parshas Shemos 5784
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Shemos – Mevorchim Chodesh Shevat 24 Teves 5784/ January 5, 2024 TIME AND PLACE On a Shabbos morning in 1990, I was walking to shul with my father and a neighbor. My father and my neighbor were discussing how comprehensive the newly published Artscroll Mishnayos […]