PARSHAS NETZOVIM 5778 ROSH HASHANAH 5779
STAM TORAH PARSHAS NETZOVIM 5778 ROSH HASHANAH 5779 “ONE FOR ALL” It was the seventh of Adar; the final day of Moshe Rabbinu’s life. He had begun conveying his last will and testament five weeks earlier, on Rosh Chodesh Shevat. His epic words to the nation are recorded from the beginning of Chumash Devorim through […]
PARSHAS KI SAVO 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SAVO 5778 “UNDERNEATH IT ALL” Rav Yankel Galinsky zt’l related that in Europe many chazzanim introduced the prayer “Ribbono Shel Olam[1]” with a song that began “Yum bum bum”. One year, the town chazzan came to the Rav and announced that he had a new “Ribbono Shel Olam”[2]. The Rav smiled […]
PARSHAS KI SETZEI 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SETZEI 5778 “ALTERED SPIRIT” Smartphone Detox: How To Power Down In A Wired World February 12, 2018 5:03 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition, NPR “If the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov were alive today, what would he say about smartphones? He might not think of them as phones at all, but instead as […]
PARSHAS SHOFTIM 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHOFTIM 5778 “CLEARLY MARKED” Once, two collectors arrived and began circulating the small village of Radin simultaneously. One was soliciting funds for a secular organization in Eretz Yisroel, while the other was collecting for poor families of b’nei Torah. The first collector was only in town for a short time, because […]
PARSHAS RE’EH 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS RE’EH 5778 “WITH DIGNITY” Rav Mottel Weinberg zt’l, the beloved Montreal Rosh Yeshiva, would join his Yeshiva for the summer in Camp Harim in the Catskills Mountains. Rav Weinberg developed a close relationship with Rav Yankel Horowitz, the Rosh Yeshiva of Bais Meir, who also spent his summers there. Rav Mottel […]
PARSHAS EIKEV 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS EIKEV 5778 “BEYOND SELF” A student of Rav Shmuel Berenbaum zt’l once approached his rebbe and cried bitter tears, as he relayed the bitter plight his family was suffering. Sometime later, the student returned to tell Rav Shmuel that the crisis had thankfully passed. The student was sure that […]
PARSHAS VAESCHANAN/NACHAMU 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAESCHANAN/NACHAMU 5778 “MASTER OF THE HOUSE” Everyone knows how challenging and busy the days before Pesach are, particularly for women. It’s all the truer on the night of erev Pesach itself. One year, after Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein shlita had already performed bedikas chometz on the night of erev Pesach, […]
PARSHAS DEVORIM 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS DEVORIM 5778 “THE PAIN OF SOLITUDE” The southern gateway of the old city of Yerushalayim is known as the ‘Sha’ar Ha’ashpos- Dung Gate.” In the times of the prophet Nechemiah the southern gateway was one and a half miles south of the present gateway. Because of the tremendous sanctity […]
PARSHAS MATOS-MASEI 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS MATOS-MASEI 5778 “BEYOND SELF” I read the following story a few year ago: Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita, was once exiting shul when a man approached and engaged him in a lengthy halachic conversation. The man continued the discussion as Rav Chaim made his way down the street. At the end of […]
PARSHAS PINCHOS 5778
STAM TORAH PARSHAS PINCHOS 5778 “SIBLING UNITY” Harbaugh parents “try not to compare” Super Bowl sons CBS NEWS February 1, 2013 NFL coaches John and Jim Harbaugh will square off against each other in Sunday’s Super Bowl, becoming the first sibling coaches to face each other in the big game. Their parents, Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, […]