PARSHAS KI SAVO 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SAVO “HOW AND WHERE” “A shortcut is often the quickest way to some place you weren’t going.1” Rabbi Shimon Russel2 related the following anecdote: There was once a young boy who would walk through the busy city streets each morning […]
PARSHAS KI SETZEI 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SETZEI 5773 “SURVIVING TRIUMPH” My Rebbe, Rabbi Berel Wein, related an apocryphal anecdote about an emergency meeting convened in the Knesset some years ago to discuss the dire state of the Israeli economy. Unemployment was rampant, the shekel […]
PARSHAS SHOFTIM 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHOFTIM 5773 “CHIEF JUSTICE” There is a legend told about two brothers who owned fields on opposite sides of a hill. The first brother had a large family, while the second brother lived by himself. One night towards the […]
PARSHAS RE’EH 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS RE’EH “SPEED REDUCTION AHEAD” Rabbi Noach Sauber1 related the following personal anecdote: “When I was a young man learning in Yeshivas RJJ in Edison, New Jersey, there was a Rebbe in the Yeshiva who did not drive. Whenever that Rebbe […]
PARSHAS EIKEV 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS EIKEV 5773 “G-D BLESS YOU” The ninety-two graduates walked in tandem, filing into the already crowded auditorium at Washington Community High School in Washington, Illinois on May 21, 2001. With gowns flowing and the traditional caps perched proudly on their […]
PARSHAS VAESCHANAN/NACHAMU 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAESCHANAN/NACHAMU 5773 “KNOWING THE WAY” Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman zt’l hy’d traveled from Baranovich, Lithuania to America to raise funds for his yeshiva. His attendant arranged for him to meet with a wealthy and influential secular Jew who was the owner […]
TISHA B’AV 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH TISHA B’AV 5773 “GOOD MOURNING” The Rema1 records2 that when King Nebuchadnezzar came to destroy the first Bais Hamikdash, the prominent Greek philosopher Plato accompanied him. After the Bais Hamikdash was destroyed, Plato found the great prophet Yirmiyahu near the fresh ruins […]
PARSHAS MATOS-MASEI 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS MATOS-MASEI 5773 “FINDING OUR WAY” Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman zt’l hy’d, the Baranovitcher Rosh Yeshiva, had a friend who had learned with him in Yeshiva and then went into business. The friend was very successful and became very wealthy. One […]
PARSHAS PINCHAS 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: http://www.stamtorah.info (http://torah.stamtorah.info/view/mosaic) STAM TORAH PARSHAS PINCHAS 5773 “AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH” For almost two decades, Camp Dora Golding, where our family has spends its last nine summers, was graced with […]
PARSHAS BALAK 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS BALAK 5773 “PACIFICATION OR CONNECTION” When visiting the city of Vienna a few years ago, Rav Dan Segal shlita, was shown the following story, recorded in the city’s ‘Sefer Kehillos’1: The young girl from the Shiff family had an […]