PARSHAS BO 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS BO 5776 “WITH HEADS HELD HIGH[1]” During the Communist regime in Russia, Rav Yaakov Galinsky zt’l, the beloved maggid from B’nei B’rak, was imprisoned in Siberia. Every morning, he and the others in his unit would be marched off to backbreaking slave labor. When they returned […]
PARSHAS VA’ERA 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS VA’ERA 5776 “DIVINE DE-NILE” The following excerpt is from an article entitled, “For Everything a Blessing”, by Dr. Kenneth Prager. It was printed in the Journal of American Medical Association[1]: “Over the years, reciting the asher yatzar has become for me and opportunity to offer thanks not […]
PARSHAS SHEMOS 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHEMOS 5776 “WHAT CHARACTER” Rabbi Baruch Diamond, the Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva Shor Yoshuv in Far Rockaway, NY, is a beloved Rebbe. Some years ago a young woman who was ‘in shidduchim’ and was close with his family asked him if he could look into a […]
PARSHAS VAYECHI 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYECHI 5776 “PERENNIAL PARENTING” The following excerpt is from Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski’s book, It’s Not As Tough As You think, chapter 62): “You’ve heard of the “empty nest syndrome”. Children grow up and go off to study. They marry and move to another […]
PARSHAS VAYIGASH 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYIGASH 5776 “BACK AGAINST THE WALL” In his noted “Shabbat Shalom Weekly” for parshas Terumah 5769, Rabbi Kalman Packouz[1] related the following story: “I once asked Reb Noah[2] for his favorite joke. He gave a little laugh and then proceeded to tell me, “There was once a […]
PARSHAS MIKETZ – CHANUKAH 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS MIKETZ – CHANUKAH 5776 “ROCK OF ISRAEL” The following is part of the text of the Oxford Chabad Society Joseph Graham Memorial Lecture, given by Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau[1], at St Annes College, on 7 May, 2006: “I was privileged once to meet David Ben Gurion, the […]
PARSHAS VAYESHEV 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYESHEV 5776 “STILL FIGHTING” In 1944, as the Nazi’s realized that their defeat was imminent, they escalated their barbaric efforts to eradicate as many Jews as they could. It was during that time that Hungarian Jewry was systematically transported to the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for […]
PARSHAS VAYISHLACH 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYISHLACH 5776 “ON GUARD” Rabbi Paysach Krohn relates a beautiful story[1] about a Jerusalem Jew named Yosef Gutfarb who was extremely meticulous to always pray with a minyan. Even the worst weather could not deter Yosef, and he was invariably one of the first people to […]
PARSHAS VAYETZEI 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYETZEI 5776 “THE OWNER OF MONTICELLO” A few years ago, Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein[1] related the following personal extraordinary story: “There was a popular pool-hall on the main street in Monticello that had a dance club in the back. It was a terribly sinful place where kids went […]
PARSHAS TOLDOS 5776
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Strivinghigher.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS TOLDOS 5776 “SPIRITUAL VITALITY”[1] Years ago, when I was a student in Yeshiva, I was conversing with a younger student who had decided to switch out of the yeshiva, and to attend a different type of yeshiva. He told me how thrilled he was to be […]