PARSHAS BEHAR 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Behar Pirkei Avos – Perek 3 — 9 Iyar 5774/May 9, 2014 Every generation loves to tell the subsequent generations how different things were ‘back when I was a kid’. One of the things my generation will tell our grandchildren is that when we were kids the […]
PARSHAS EMOR 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Emor Pirkei Avos – Perek 2 — 2 Iyar 5774/May 2, 2014 On the final day of Pesach, at the beginning of my pre-Yizkor derasha I related that Mickey Mantle, the legendary Yankees slugger, once recounted his recurring nightmare. “Ever since I retired I keep having […]
PARSHAS KEDOSHIM 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Kedoshim Pirkei Avos – Perek 1 – Shabbos Mevorchim Chodesh Iyar 24 Nissan 5774/April 24, 2014 On Erev Yom Tov last week as we were getting into our car I noticed that one of the back tires was low. I headed over to the local mechanic, […]
Erev Z’man Chairusainu 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Z’man Chairusainu 14 Nissan 5774/April 14, 2014 A number of years ago I was in a car with a friend who was listening to a sports talk show on the radio. They were discussing a popular power hitter on the New York Yankees who was in a miserable slump. […]
Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Acharei Mos – Shabbos Hagadol 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Acharei Mos – Shabbos Hagadol 11 Nissan 5774/April 11, 2014 Do you know who I really feel bad for? Silent letters. For some reason the English language has no compunction about sticking extra letters into the middle of words, and then allowing them to remain there perpetually, […]
PARSHAS METZORA 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Metzora 4 Nissan 5774/April 4, 2014 Every Wednesday morning when I walk out of my home they’re waiting for me on my driveway: that week’s Hamodia and Jewish Press. Recently, my in laws gave us a gift and we also receive the Yated on Thursday mornings. So […]
PARSHAS TZARIA/HACHODESH 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Tazria – Hachodesh Mevorchim Chodesh Nissan 26 Adar II 5774/March 28, 2014 A few years ago I read a story about a CEO who wanted to motivate his employees, so he hung up a sign over the sink in the office bathroom which simply said “THINK!” He […]
PARSHAS SHEMINI/PARSHAS PARAH 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Shemini- Parah 19 Adar II 5774/March 21, 2014 T’was the night after Shushan Purim, and as I was putting one of our children (who shall remain nameless for the sake of anonymity) into his bed, the sound of scrunching and crunching could be heard. I moved away […]
PARSHAS TZAV – PARSHAS ZACHOR 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Tzav – Zachor 12 Adar II 5774/March 14, 2014 One morning this week, as I walked to my car I saw something yellow sticking out of the mound of piled-up snow at the bottom of our driveway. I pulled it out and found the newspaper from a […]
PARSHAS VAYIKRA 5774
“RABBI’S MUSINGS (& AMUSINGS)” Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Vayikra 5 Adar II 5774/March 7, 2014 Many of the readers of this brilliant column are aware of our luggage woes. When our family went to Eretz Yisroel in December for my brother’s wedding, only ten of the eleven pieces of luggage we checked in came around […]