PARSHAS SHEMOS 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHEMOS 5781[1] “THE ENEMY OF GOOD” Dedicated l’refuah shelimah for נטע יצחק בן רחל A guest once arrived in Kotzk to the court of the Kotzker Rebbe. When he introduced himself to the rebbe, the rebbe asked him why he had come. The man explained that he had […]
PARSHAS VAYECHI 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYECHI 5781[1] “PUBLIC OR PRIVATE I” Dedicated l’refuah shelimah for נטע יצחק בן רחל A cruise ship on the Pacific Ocean encountered a raging storm and subsequently sank. Three Jews survived by holding onto boards and floating to a deserted island. As their initial joy of surviving faded, […]
PARSHAS VAYIGASH 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYIGASH 5781[1] “DEEPEST OF THE DEEP” Dedicated l’refuah shleimah for נטע יצחק בן רחל Yeshivas Eitz Chaim, the famed Volozhiner Yeshiva, was founded in 1806 by Rav Chaim of Volozhin, a noted disciple of the Vilna Gaon. It was the mother of all Lithuanian Yeshivos. During the mid-1850s a contentious […]
PARSHAS MIKETZ 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS MIKETZ 5781[1] “ON ME” Dedicated l’refuah shleimah for נטע יצחק בן רחל “Response-ability” is the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a […]
PARSHAS VAYESHEV 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYESHEV 5781[1] “DREAMING AWAKE” Dedicated l’refuah shleimah for נטע יצחק בן רחל In 1944, as World War II continued ravaging Europe and engulfing the entire world, the Ponovezher Rav, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman zt’l, arrived in the then undeveloped town of B’nei Brak. It was then that he […]
PARSHAS VAYISHLACH 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYISHLACH 5781[1] “WHAT’S IN A NAME” Dedicated l’refuah shelimah for נטע יצחק בן רחל Uri Zohar was once celebrated as “the top comedian, television and radio talk-show host, social satirist, actor, and film producer on the Israeli scene.” Today, Rabbi Uri Zohar is perhaps Israel’s foremost ba’al teshuvah, or returnee […]
PARSHAS VAYETZEI 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYETZEI 5781[1] “ESSENCE OF LOVE “ Dedicated l’refuah shelimah for נטע יצחק בן רחל One beautiful summer morning, two friends decided to go on a fishing trip together. They rented a small boat and enjoyed the breeze as the boat floated gently through the sea. All at once, […]
PARSHAS TOLDOS 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS TOLDOS 5781[1] “PURE SPEECH” Peleh Yoetz relates a frightening story about a Jewish comedian who spent his life on stage telling inappropriate, vulgar, and crude jokes. When he was in his final illness, he lay in a coma with the Chevra Kadisha[2] awaiting the inevitable. Suddenly, the dying […]
PARSHAS CHAYEI SARAH 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS CHAYEI SARAH 5781[1] “IN SEARCH OF TRUE BEAUTY” Stam Torah is lovingly dedicated in honor of the bar mitzvah of our dear son, Avi, this Shabbos. May he continue to grow in the path of Torah and Avodas Hashem. Stam Torah is also lovingly dedicated in memory of my beloved […]
PARSHAS VAYERA 5781
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYERA 5781[1] “GENUINE CHESSED” Stam Torah is lovingly dedicated in memory of my beloved Savta, Shprintza bas Avrohom Yitzchak, Mrs. Minnie Staum a”h, whose yahrtzeit was this week, 17 Cheshvan. Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Herman was a Torah pioneer in America. In his daughter, Rebbitzin Ruchoma Shain’s, inspiring book […]