YOM KIPPUR 5772
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos/Yom Kippur 5772 9 Tishrei 5772/October 7, 2011 A family friend once remarked to me that Yom Kippur is her favorite day of the year. Then she added with a half-smile, “I don’t even know why I love it so much. I hate fasting, yet I love the day. Am […]
ROSH HASHANAH 5772
Download the original attachment Erev ‘Rosh Hashanah 5772’ 29 Elul 5771/September 28, 2011 What is it about songs and music that makes them so contagious? Did you ever find yourself singing a song that you realized was in your head because you heard someone humming it when you walked past them a few hours earlier? […]
NETZOVIM-VAYELECH 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshios Netzavim- Vayelech 24 Elul 5771/September 23, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 5 & 6 During the last day or two of camp when I wake up my divisions, I jokingly tell them that they better get out of bed because if they miss the bus home […]
KI SAVO 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Savo 17 Elul 5771/September 16, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 3 & 4 What a tzaddik I am! Or at least that’s the way it must have appeared. I walked out of my house one crisp Sunday morning in late October last year, heading towards […]
KI SEITZEI 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Ki Seitzei 10 Elul 5771/September 9, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 2 A rebbe recounted that one day last year there was a large map spread out across his desk. A student was gazing at it fascinatingly for a few moments before he remarked, “Wow rebbe; […]
Shoftim 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Shoftim 3 Elul 5771/September 2, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapters 1& 2 I’m not really sure who invited her but, invitation or not, Irene burst across the East Coast with a fury this past week. No one knew for certain the course the storm would take, […]
RE’EH 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Re’eh 26 Menachem Av 5771/August 26, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 6 Shabbos Mevorchim Chodesh Elul Camp is an amazing place. In a certain sense it’s a fantasy land where a camper can spend all day with friends, have a slumber party every night, and play […]
EIKEV 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Eikev 17 Menachem Av 5771/August 17, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 5 I once had the opportunity to hear a former governor of New Jersey speak at a dinner. He quoted Ben Franklin who referred to New Jersey as ‘a valley of humility between the haughty […]
SHABBOS NACHAMU VAESCHANAN 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Vaeschanan/Nachamu 12 Menachem Av 5771/August 12, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 4 Someone sent me a cute article which contrasts the value of something, based on who is holding it. “A basketball in my hands is worth about twenty dollars; the basketball in the hands of […]
SHABBOS CHAZON DEVORIM 5771
Download the original attachment Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Devorim – Shabbos Chazon 5 Menachem Av 5771/August 5, 2011 — Pirkei Avos – Chapter 3 I was asked why I have not made any mention of the horrible Leiby Kletsky tragedy that the Jewish world is still reeling from. The answer is quite simply that I […]