PARSHAS TZAV – PARSHAS ZACHOR 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS TZAV – PARSHAS ZACHOR 5774[1] “PROUD WITNESS” A young student, sporting a beard, wearing a long black coat, and a large brimmed hat boarded a subway train in New York. He sat opposite a well-dressed businessman who looked at […]
PARSHAS VAYIKRA 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYIKRA 5774 “AN OFFERING OF LOVE” Rabbi Yosef Wallis is the director of Arachim. He related to Project Witness the following story about his father, Judah Wallis, who was raised in Pavenitz, Poland. While my father, Judah Wallis, […]
PARSHAS PEKUDEI 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS PEKUDEI 5774 PARSHAS SHEKALIM – EREV ROSH CHODESH ADAR II “MAY IT BE THY WILL” The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside […]
PARSHAS VAYAKHEL 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYAKHEL 5774 “FORGET ME NOT” Shortly before our wedding in February 2002 (Adar 5762), I was speaking with Rabbi Dovid Katzenstein shlita, the (then) Menahel (Dean) of my yeshiva, Yeshiva Shaarei Torah in Monsey, at his home. We […]
PARSHAS KI SISA 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SISA 5774 “A DAY OF TRANSFORMATION” Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Herman zt’l was a person of incredible faith, and legendary adherence to Torah. For many years Rabbi Herman lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This was […]
PARSHAS TETZAVEH 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS TETZAVEH 5774 “TO ASCEND ON ITS OWN” “Suppose, for example, that I am highly over-reactive to my children. Suppose that whenever they begin to do something that I feel is inappropriate, I sense an immediate tensing in the pit […]
PARSHAS TERUMAH 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS TERUMAH 5774 “A CHARITABLE HEART” “In the faint light of the attic, an old man, tall and stooped, bent his great frame and made his way to a stack of boxes that sat near one of the little half-windows. […]
PARSHAS MISHPATIM 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS MISHPATIM 5774 “SELF INFLICTED BLINDNESS” On one occasion, the Shach[1] had a monetary disagreement with a prominent member of the Vilna community. The man was justifiably concerned to challenge the great Shach in a court where the judges […]
PARSHAS YISRO 5768
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS YISRO 5768 “NOT YOUR TYPICAL NATION” A news report from January, 22, 2008/ 15 Shevat 5768: “A secular Israeli farmer in the northern city of Tiberius, whose chief produce is bananas, decided that he would undertake to keep Shmitah[1] […]
PARSHAS BESHALACH /SHABBOS SHIRAH / TU B’SHVAT 5774
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/ASHAR STAM TORAH PARSHAS BESHALACH /SHABBOS SHIRAH / TU B’SHVAT 5774 “LANGUAGE BEYOND WORDS” “Among the positive mitzvos (commandments) of the mind are: To believe the world has a Creator; He created it out of nothingness; there is none like Him; to accept […]