PARSHAS CHAYEI SARAH 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar This Stam Torah is lovingly dedicated l’zecher nishmas my Zayde, Rav Yaakov Meir Kohn zt’l, whose yahtzeit is this Monday, 27 Cheshvan. He truly was a person about whom it could be said Un Er Hut Gelebt! He lived life with a […]
PARSHAS VAYERA 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYERA 5773 “TO SANCTIFY HIS NAME” Before coming to America, Rav Moshe Feinstein zt’l was the Rav in Luban, White Russia. In the early part of the winter of 5682 (1922), one of the members of his community […]
PARSHAS LECH LECHA 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS LECH LECHA 5773 “ABOVE AND BEYOND[1]” Rabbi Nafatli Eisgrau, menahel of Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch, was a close disciple of Rav Don Ungarischer zt’l, the late Rosh Yeshiva of Bais Medrash Elyon in Monsey[2]. Rav Ungarischer was […]
PARSHAS NOACH 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS NOACH 5773 “WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN” The following stories are just a few of the experiences that my Bubby, Rebbitzin Fruma Kohn related to me from her personal experiences as an adolescent in Siberia during World War […]
BEREISHIS 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH BEREISHIS 5773 “HOLD ON[1]” Rabbi Emanuel Feldman relates the story about Brad, a Jewish teenager raised by irreligious parents in the city. One summer his parents sent him off to be with his Orthodox grandparents in the countryside. Throughout […]
SUCCOS 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH SUCCOS 5773 “OUR REAL HOME IN EXILE” The Duke of Manheim once met Rav Tzvi of Berlin and asked him why the Jews recite the Four Questions on Pesach night and not on Succos night? It would seem that […]
YOM KIPPUR 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH YOM KIPPUR 5773[1] “UNADULTERATED SUBJUGATION” A woman once approached Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik zt’l and told him that she wanted to begin wearing tzitzis in order to feel more spiritual and closer to G-d. Rabbi Soloveitchik replied that growth […]
ROSH HASHANAH 5773
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH ROSH HASHANAH 5773 “QUALITY NOT QUANTITY” It was a beautiful August day in Camp Dora Golding, during the summer of 2000/5760. I was walking from the Dining Room to learning groups with my Rebbe and a few other […]
PARSHIOS NETZOVIM-VAYELECH 5772
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHIOS NETZOVIM-VAYELECH “A MIRAGE” The great Chassidic Master, Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, related the parable about a chassid from Cracow, Poland named Reb Eizik who had the same dream every night for a week straight. He dreamed that if […]
PARSHAS KI SAVO 5772
Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch/Ashar STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SAVO “ALL IN THIS TOGETHER” The father was not happy, to say the least. “What kind of report card is this? I have never seen such bad grades in my life. Are you not ashamed of your lack […]