PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5774 – “AT FULL MAST”
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5774 “AT FULL MAST” A man once found an eagle’s egg and put it in the nest – of a barnyard hen. The eagle hatched and grew up with the rest of a brood of chicks […]
PARSHAS BECHUKOSAI – LAG BA’OMER 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS BECHUKOSAI – LAG BA’OMER 5774 “COMPLETE COMMITMENT” A cow and a chicken were walking down the street together one afternoon. They were admiring the sights when, suddenly, the chicken became very excited. “Hey cow, take a […]
PARSHAS BEHAR 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS BEHAR 5774 “A PRICE TO PAY” In one of the European shtetlach (villages) in days of yore, there was one particularly rambunctious youth who was causing an uproar in his cheder (school). He was a sharp […]
PARSHAS EMOR 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS EMOR 5774 “STUCK IN PLACE” Although it was more than two decades ago, I would venture to think that anyone who was a classmate of mine when I was in second grade, remembers the time that […]
PARSHAS KEDOSHIM 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS KEDOSHIM 5774 “FOR I AM HOLY” A number of years ago while living in Melbourne Australia, Rabbi Yaakov Haber[1] founded a Kollel known as the Australian Institute of Torah.[2] Each year the institute would host a […]
Pesach Divrei Torah
“והגדת לבנך” During the cold European winter the water in the mikva was freezing. There was one appointed fellow whose job it was to take hot water from the samovar (urn) on the fire and periodically pour some of the boiling water into the freezing waters of the mikva to warm the water. One morning […]
PARSHAS ACHREI MOS/ SHABBOS HAGADOL/PESACH 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS ACHREI MOS/ SHABBOS HAGADOL/PESACH 5774 “A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE” Dear Rabbi, So it’s Pesach again. Another Seder night where we meet up with distant relatives we almost forgot about, to tell a story that we […]
PARSHAS METZORA 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS METZORA 5774 APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTION Rabbi Paysach Krohn relates that a woman went to visit her ailing friend one hot summer day. The patient was lying in a hospital bed receiving medicine through an intravenous, hooked up […]
PARSHAS TZARIA/HACHODESH 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Rebbe/Guidance Counselor – ASHAR/ Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS TZARIA/HACHODESH 5774 “FROM WITHIN” Birds are chirping; delightful spring day We bid our farewells; we’re moving away[1] Boxes are loaded; Truck ready to go Time to depart; 3 Landau Lane ho! Movers are busy packing boxes […]
PARSHAS SHEMINI/PARSHAS PARAH 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHEMINI/PARSHAS PARAH 5774 “INANIMATE MEANING” “Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then, it is heard no more: it is a tale Told by […]