PARSHAS EIKEV 5776
Rabbi Dani Staum STAM TORAH PARSHAS EIKEV 5776 “FLOWING LIFE” Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber zt’l was a legendary leader of Russian Jewry for over three decades. He remained resolutely firm in his faith and practicing of Torah and mitzvos throughout his arduous years behind the Iron Curtain, even in the brutality of a Russian Labor Camp. […]
PARSHAS VAESCHANAN 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH SHABBOS NACHAMU PARSHAS VAESCHANAN 5776 “THE POWER OF ONE” On January 6, 2011, the Gluck family – a wonderful family in our community and personal friends – celebrated the wedding of their daughter Reina to […]
PARSHAS DEVORIM SHABBOS CHAZON 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH SHABBOS CHAZON PARSHAS DEVORIM 5776 “FALLEN PRIDE” Aharon Barnea, a well-known news anchor in Israeli media, related the following story about a high level Palestinian militant leader named Salah Tamari[1]: Tamari was a fierce fighter […]
PARSHAS MATOS- MASEI 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS MATOS 5776 “SERIOUS BUSINESS” Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash and it is gone; But there’s half-a-hundred ripples, circling on and on and on, Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on […]
PARSHAS PINCHOS 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS PINCHOS 5776 “WHO’S DOING FOR WHO” The following story was written by Rabbi Binny Freedman[1]: “A number of years ago, I met a wealthy businessman from Caracas, Venezuela who was spending Pesach with his […]
PARSHAS BALAK 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS BALAK 5776 “FIRST THINGS FIRST” At the turn of the twentieth century, two of the wealthiest and most influential personalities in America were Jewish brothers named Nathan and Isidor Straus. They owned R.H. Macy […]
PARSHAS CHUKAS 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS CHUKAS 5776 “AT WHAT PRICE” Rabbi Chaim Kreisworth zt’l, the beloved Chief Rabbi of Antwerp, related a story from his days as a yeshiva student in Lithuania. In those days the yeshivos lacked funding […]
PARSHAS KORACH 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS KORACH 5776 “IMPULSIVE WEALTH[1]” In 1978, Michael Aun won the Toastmaster’s International Speaking contest in Vancouver. He remarks that although he is well-known for winning the contest in 1978, he lost it in 1977 […]
PARSHAS SHELACH 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHELACH 5776 “THE SOUND OF SILENCE” A student of Yeshivas Shor Yashuv in Far Rockaway once missed shachris during two consecutive mornings. Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld zt’l, the venerable Rosh Yeshiva, approached the student and […]
PARSHAS BEHA’ALOSCHA 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR Principal – Ohr Naftoli- New Windsor STAM TORAH PARSHAS BEHA’ALOSCHA 5776 “STERLING CHARACTER” Michelangelo is renowned for being a great painter, particularly of the Sistine Chapel. The truth however, is that his true love was not painting, but in sculpting. He was once […]