PARSHAS KORACH 5772

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: STAM TORAH PARSHAS KORACH 5772 “TRADITION!”           President Woodrow Wilson was the son of a minister. His father, who was tall and very thin, would often take young Woodrow with him […]

PARSHAS SHELACH 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHELACH “LIVING IT” One Sunday afternoon, the Rabbi was showing six-year old Arnold around the Synagogue. They looked at the sanctuary, the women’s balcony, and the banquet hall downstairs. Afterwards, they were standing in the main hallway when Arnold […]

PARSHAS BEHA’ALOSCHA 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch To receive Stam Torah via email each week, send an email to: stam-torah+subscribe@googlegroups.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS BEHA’ALOSCHA 5772 “THAT YOUTHFUL SPARK” A rebbe related a comment that he heard in the faculty room of a Yeshiva where he was a Rebbe. Ramban […]

PARSHAS NASO 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch To receive Stam Torah via email each week, send an email to: stam-torah+subscribe@googlegroups.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS NASO 5772 “THE GUIDING STAFF”           Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky zt’l was once asked how one should educate his children to recite blessings before eating. Rabbi Yaakov […]

SHAVUOS 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch To receive Stam Torah via email each week, send an email to: stam-torah+subscribe@googlegroups.com STAM TORAH SHAVUOS 5772 “ANCESTORY AND PROGENY” “The true test of success in life is if one’s grandparents and grandchildren are proud of him.” (Rabbi Berel Wein) “The reason […]

PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch To receive Stam Torah via email each week, send an email to: stam-torah+subscribe@googlegroups.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS BAMIDBAR 5772 “A SHINING STAR”           One day a traveler was walking along the beach when he noticed a man walking along the sand scooping up […]

PARSHIOS BEHAR-BECHUKOSAI 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch To receive Stam Torah via email each week, send an email to: stam-torah+subscribe@googlegroups.com STAM TORAH PARSHIOS BEHAR-BECHUKOSAI 5772 “IN DUE TIME”           In the back of his Haggadah, Maggid Mishnah, Rabbi Menashe Klein zt’l recounts some of his experiences during the Holocaust. […]

PARSHAS EMOR 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch To receive Stam Torah via email each week, send an email to: stam-torah+subscribe@googlegroups.com STAM TORAH PARSHAS EMOR 5772 PESACH SHENI/LAG BA’OMER “THE MIGHTY OAK” A man was helping his son through the process of admission to a well-known ivy-league university. As they […]

PARSHIOS ACHREI MOS-KEDOSHIM 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch To receive Stam Torah via email each week, send an email to: stam-torah+subscribe@googlegroups.com STAM TORAH PARSHIOS ACHREI MOS-KEDOSHIM 5772 “AN INDIVISIBLE UNION”  “During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and […]

PARSHIOS TAZRIA/METZORA 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHIOS TAZRIA/METZORA 5772 “REALIZING THE TREASURE”           At a gathering for alumni of Yeshivas Kol Torah in Yerushalayim a few years ago, Rabbi Yisroel Bodenheim shlit’a, one of the Yeshiva’s esteemed Rabbeim, related the following story: “This story happened over […]