PARSHAS BESHALACH/SHABBOS SHIRAH 5772

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS BESHALACH/SHABBOS SHIRAH 5772 TU B’SHVAT “THE INVERTED TREE” Rabbi Shalom Schwadron zt’l, the Maggid of Yerushalayim, related the story about Moshe, a young ba’al teshuvah attending a yeshiva in B’nei Brak, who was about to […]

PARSHAS BO 5772

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS BO 5772 “A PLAGUE OF LIGHT1” Among the masses of graves on the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Temple Mount, is the grave of a Jew named Rabbi Eliezer Yosef Lederberg, who passed away on […]

PARSHAS VA’ERA 5772

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS VA’ERA 5772 “DISAPPOINTMENTS” The following is the text of a lecture delivered by Rabbi Berel Wein shlita in Yeshiva Shaarei Torah to the students on Thursday evening, Erev Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Va’era 5766 (January 1996). […]

PARSHAS SHEMOS 5772

Download the original attachment Rabbi Doniel Staum, LMSW Rabbi, Kehillat New Hempstead Social Worker, Yeshiva Bais Hachinuch STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHEMOS 5772 “INSUFFICIENT EMOTION” Henry Ford, the wealthy Detroit entrepreneur who created the automobile assembly line, was not only infamous for being an anti-Semite but also for being a narcissist who admittedly never did anything […]

PARSHAS VAYECHI 5772

Download the original attachment 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 VAYECHI 5772 “WHITER THAN MILK” Rabbi Moshe Aharon Stern zt’l1 once accompanied Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Aurebach zt’l to his home after davening shacharis. It […]

PARSHAS VAYIGASH 5772

Download the original attachment 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 VAYIGASH 5772 “A PRIVATE MATTER” When my wife and I married in February 2002/Adar 5762, we enjoyed many beautiful Sheva B’rachos hosted by friends […]

PARSHAS MIKETZ/ CHANUKAH 5772

Download the original attachment 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 MIKETZ/ CHANUKAH 5772 “WAKE UP AND SMELL THE OIL” In 1948 the Israeli forces consisted of 17,600 rifles, 2,700 steno guns, 1,000 machine guns, […]

PARSHAS VAYESHEV 5772

Download the original attachment 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 VAYESHEV 5772 “NOTHING MORE TO OFFER” On May 13, 1940, Sir Winston Churchill delivered his first speech as Prime Minister to the British Cabinet. […]

PARSHAS VAYISHLACH 5772

Download the original attachment 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 VAYISHLACH “A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE” Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky zt’l1 was frequently asked to serve as Sandek2 for the sons of his students, family members, […]

PARSHAS VAYETZEI 5772

Download the original attachment 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 VAYETZEI 5772 “PROCEED WITH CAUTION” At the Torah Umesorah Convention in May 2007, Rabbi Asher Weiss shlita, an erudite scholar from Yerushalayim, addressed the […]