PARSHAS SHEMINI 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHEMINI 5772 “COMING FULL CIRCLE” Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis zt’l, Rav of the Chareidi community in Yerushalayim, was known as a great Torah scholar who utilized his every […]

PESACH 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: STAM TORAH PESACH 5772 “HOW UNUSUAL” The Seder has an inextricable connection with questions. In fact, there are many unusual customs and rituals that we perform at the Seder solely so […]

SHABBOS HAGADOL PARSHAS TZAV 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: http://www.stamtorah.info (http://torah.stamtorah.info/view/mosaic) STAM TORAH SHABBOS HAGADOL PARSHAS TZAV 5772 “STRIVING EVER HIGHER” This Thursday, 12 Nissan, is the yahrtzeit of Harav Shimshon Dovid Pinkus zt’l, who, along with his esteemed Rebbitzin […]

PARSHIOS VAYIKRA/HACHODESH 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHIOS VAYIKRA/HACHODESH 5772 “MULTITUDES IN THE FIELD” At the previous Siyum Hashas[1] on March 1, 1995 in Madison Square Garden, Rabbi Matisyahu Salomon shlita, the Mashgiach of Bais Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, N.J., delivered the final address, in which he […]

PARSHIOS VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI/PARAH 5772

Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHIOS VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI/PARAH 5772 “PLACE WITHOUT LAND” Shortly after the end of World War II, Rabbi Mordechai Gifter zt’l was accompanying Rabbi Elya Meir Bloch zt’l[1] on a fundraising trip to New York. While there they stopped in a Jewish bookstore […]

PARSHAS KI SISA

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SISA “THE DAY AFTER” My Rebbe, Rabbi Berel Wein shlita, relates that a number of years ago, while visiting Yerushalayim1, he was davening shachris one morning in a shul opposite a tall blue-eyed blond-haired […]

Parshas Tetzaveh – Parshas Zachor – PURIM 5772

Download the original attachment  Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PURIM “TRUE YET HIDDEN” A man getting on to the bus one day notices a young boy sitting next to the driver. In front of the boy is a steering wheel made out of cardboard, […]

PARSHAS TERUMAH 5772

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS TERUMAH 5772 “LIGHT INTO THE FUTURE” “Please find a place to read the next few pages where you can be alone and uninterrupted. Clear your mind of everything except what you will read and what […]

PARSHAS MISHPATIM/SHEKALIM

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS MISHPATIM/SHEKALIM “THE OTHER HALF OF THE COIN” Almost ten years ago, my family celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of my younger brother, Yaakov Meir. At the reception, my older brother R’ Yitzie, spoke and shared the […]

PARSHAS YISRO 5772

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS YISRO 5772 “PUSHING THE BLANKET” The well-known entertainer Jimmy Durante, was once asked to participate in a show for World War II veterans. He agreed to do it but, because his schedule was very busy, […]