PARSHAS TERUMAH 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS TERUMAH 5777 “THE VALUE OF EFFORT” · As a young man Abe Lincoln was a failure as a businessman and then as a lawyer. He turned to politics and was defeated in his first efforts to become a legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in […]
PARSHAS MISHPATIM/SHEKLAIM 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS MISHPATIM/SHEKLAIM 5777 “THE BETTER HALF” A woman and her husband interrupted their vacation to go to the dentist. The man walked into the office and announced, “Look doc, I need you to extract a tooth, but I’m in a big rush, so I have no time to wait for Novocain. Just get […]
PARSHAS YISRO 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS YISRO 5777 “THE COVENANT” Phillip is getting older and his health is deteriorating rapidly. He moved out to California to enjoy the comfortable climate as his strength continues to ebb away. When he feels his end is nearing he calls his best friend in New York. “Irving” he begins. “Yeah, what’s doing […]
PARSHAS BESHALACH – TU B’SHVAT 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BESHALACH – TU B’SHVAT 5777 “SPLIT IN HALF[1]” The world’s greatest superpower lay in ruins. The elite country of Egypt was ravaged and devastated. Even more pronounced was the decimation of Egyptian pride. The infallible became vulnerable; the unconquerable was vanquished. Still the redemption was not complete. The burgeoning nation of Klal […]
PARSHAS BO 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS BO 5777 “FROM A FRIEND” Rabbi Binyomin Rabinowitz[1] related the following story about his father, Rabbi Yisroel Rabinowitz zt’l[2]: “During his adolescence, my father learned in the Lomza yeshiva in northeastern Poland. When the Germans began bombing in 1939, the air-raid sirens immediately began blaring, and everyone in the town would immediately […]
PARSHAS VA’ERA 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VA’ERA 5777 “FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE” A Paul Harvey classic[1]… “It was a sweltering hot day, and word was traveling like a brush fire through the countryside: “The British are coming”. “No false alarm. The British army was closing in fast. Looking for one man. A prominent patriot with a price on his […]
PARSHAS SHEMOS 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHEMOS 5777 “FIRST THINGS FIRST” “VACUUM CLEANER CAPTURES SNAKE” Yediot Acharonot, Evan Ackerman, Friday, November 20, 2009 The Roomba is built to vacuum dust independently under beds and cabinets. About six months ago, Efi Frida (39) and her husband Eli (41), from Mizpe Avtalyon in the Galilee, purchased a Roomba to assist […]
PARSHAS VAYECHI 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYECHI 5777 “THE MAID’S SONS” During my formative years, one of my rabbeim once told our class that he wished to tell us something very profound, something we may have a hard time believing: “I want you all to know that every student in this room has the capability to become one […]
PARSHAS VAYIGASH/ASARAH B’TEVES 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYIGASH/ASARAH B’TEVES 5777 “THE EMBASSY” Keren Gottleib relates an incredible personal story[1]: “As part of my army service in the Israeli army I was placed, to my delight, in a teachers’ unit… “This was shortly after Operation Solomon in 1993, during which roughly 14,500 Jews from Ethiopia were airlifted to Israel. It […]
PARSHAS MIKETZ/CHANUKAH 5777
STAM TORAH PARSHAS MIKETZ/CHANUKAH 5777 “BONELESS WONDER” Between the two World Wars, Winston Churchill, the future legendary Prime Minster of Great Britain, was exasperated with the impotence of the British government in regards to their foreign policy[1]. On one occasion, he addressed the House of Commons and related that as a boy he always looked […]