PARSHAS BALAK 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BALAK 5778 “JUDGE OF CHARACTER” Rav Shimshon Pincus zt’l related that a granddaughter of the Chofetz Chaim was lured by secular influences. She eventually left the life of Torah and went to University. During that time, she came to visit her saintly grandfather. She told him about the incredible innovations and how […]
PARSHAS CHUKAS 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS CHUKAS 5778 “TRUST THE PROCESS” It wasn’t nice, but that’s the way it was. Everyone in school and in his town called him Mike the Moron. It wasn’t that he was stupid, as much as that he just never seemed to use common sense. He was impulsive, had no patience for details, […]
PARSHAS KORACH 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS KORACH 5778 “ALL IN THE EXPECTATIONS”[1] I heard the following story, and then found it written by Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein. It is taken from aish.com. It is a story that could only happen in Eretz Yisroel: It was right after Rosh Hashanah, in Bnei Brak, one of Israel’s most densely populated communities, […]
PARSHAS SHELACH 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHELACH 5778 “FOR THE SAKE OF WHOM”[1] Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman is known as “the Disco Rabbi” due to his amazing success at reaching out to boys and girls in their own “habitat” and bringing them closer to Hashem and His Torah. There are many amazing stories about this remarkable person and […]
PARSHAS BEHA’ALOSCHA 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BEHA’ALOSCHA 5778 “FOR THE SAKE OF WHOM”[1] When Rav Elazar Menachem Men Schach zt’l was a young yeshiva student he lived in dire poverty. At one point he was invited to join Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin. The students of the yeshiva were chosen for their extreme diligence and scholarliness ; it was […]
PARSHAS NASO 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS NASO 5778 “ON ME ALONE”[1] Toward the end of his Inaugural Address on January 20, 1981, President Ronald Reagan spoke of monuments to heroism. Struggling to control his emotions, he drew attention to “the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery with its row upon row of simple white markers.” He […]
PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5778 “AUTOMATIC RESPONSE”[1] A chassid once asked his rebbe, “When Moshiach comes, how will I recognize him?” The rebbe replied, “The more important question is how will Moshiach recognize you?” In Parshas Bamidbar, the Torah describes the marching formation of the twelve shevatim. In addition, the Medrash notes that every […]
PARSHAS BEHAR-BECHUKOSAI 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BEHAR-BECHUKOSAI 5778 “CREATING INSPIRATION” Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers[1], related: “When I was writing the book, which I worked on for eleven years, I had several questions for which I searched for answers. The first question was about what the paratroopers did when the city was recaptured. […]
PARSHAS EMOR 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS EMOR 5778 “IN ALL DIRECTIONS”[1] Rabbi Yisroel Saperstein[2] related that one of the many chesed organizations in Monsey provides volunteer drivers to help people without means of transportation to get to needed destinations, such as doctor appointments, hospital visits, etc. On one occasion, when Rabbi Saperstein was being driven to visit […]
PARSHAS ACHAREI MOS-KEDOSHIM
STAM TORAH PARSHAS ACHAREI MOS-KEDOSHIM PESACH SHENI/LAG BA’OMER 5778 “ETERNAL HOPE”[1] In 1944 Binyamin Wertzberger, a sixteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, was sent to a Concentration Camp where he was forced to drag heavy train tracks with his bare thin hands. His entire family, including a brother and two sisters perished during the war. On […]