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Searching For the Weakness of Our Soul
Rabbi Yaacov HaberDon’t Hog The Blanket!
Rabbi Yaacov HaberSay Boruch Hashem!
Rabbi Yaacov HaberJust Do It!
How many times do we come back to the pit screaming "Joseph! Joseph!" - only to find that we waited too long?
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A Little Eisavkeit
Be careful not to accept Esav with two hands and not to push him away with two hands either.
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Don’t Sleep There!
In our own lives, we sometimes fall asleep on hallowed ground.
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Open Your Tent!
Yitzchok can inherit the Land of Israel; but only because his father was Abraham.
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Choosing Your Grandfather
TorahLabFinding the Sparks
Fan those sparks and they will turn into beacons of light.
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Do Your Thing!
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TorahLabRainbow -Beautiful or a Curse?
TorahLabWhere Do You Stand
The following drasha was given at the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo on Shabbat Vayera, 5748 (1987), and transcribed from memory by Jeffery Zucker.
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A Thought for the Week
Parshas Vayeira 1999
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Prayer
The following drasha was given at the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo on Shabbat Vayera 5747, (1986), and transcribed from memory by Jeffery Zucker.
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A Thought for the Week
Vayeira 5761 / 2000
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A Thought for the Week
Vayeira 2001
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Avrahams Heroism (Gevurah)
The following drasha was given at the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo on Shabbat Lech Lecha 5747 (1986), and transcribed from memory by Jeffery Zucker.
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selling Torah
The following drasha was given at the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo on Shabbat Lech Lecha by Rabbi Yaacov Haber, and transcribed from memory by David Sher.
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Abraham’s Message
The following drasha was given at the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo on Shabbat Lech Lecha 5749 (1988), and transcribed from memory by Jeffery Zucker.
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A Thought for the Week
Lech Lecha 1999
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A Thought for the Week
Parshas Lech Lecha 5761 / 2000
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A Thought for the Week
Lech Lecha 2001
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Renewal
Simchas Torah / Breishis
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Jews in the Headlines
"A tzaddik says little, but does a lot. A rasha says a lot, but, in the end, does nothing."
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Whole Life
"Sarah was a hundred years and twenty years and seven years, these were the years of Sarah" (Bereishis 23:1)
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Parshas Vayechi 2001
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In order for there to be peace with our enemies, there must first be peace with each other.
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Parshas Vayeshev 2001
"Hineini" - I am ready
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Parshas Vayishlach 2001
The final battle is the battle of synergy for us, and Tikun Olam for the world at large.
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Parshas Vayeitzei 2001
Not only did Yaakov teach us a way to pray, he taught us a way to live.
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Parshas Chayei Sara 2001
It was at this supremely spiritual esoteric stage of Avrohom Avinu's life that he was faced with a very down-to-earth challenge. He had to make a shiduch for his son Yitzchak.
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Really Believing in G-d
Parshas Noach 2001
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Parshas Vayishlach 2000
The nations of the world call us Yaakov but the truth is that we are Yisroel.
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Parshas Chaye Sara 5761
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We have to find our individual calling, our brocha and our individual purpose in this life.
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Parshas Vayigash 1999
The secret to forgiveness is belief in Hashem
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Parshas Vayeishev 1999
On Chanukah the world saw the light that we can shed if we can only work together.
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Parshas Vayishlach 1999
The final battle is the battle of identity, so that we never become just one of the guys.
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Parshas Toldos 1999
Yaacov saw the big picture. Esav couldn’t get past a bowl of beans. This is both the story and the message of this week’s Parsha.
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Parshas Chaye Sara 1999
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Parshas Noach 1999
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Everyone’s Moment of Truth
From the Torah's perspective, no-one, however wicked, is completely worthless in what he has to say. Everyone has his moment of truth.
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Lets Use Our Heads
TorahLabGratitude
Jacob gives an extra portion of his blessings not to his firstborn Reuben (as one should, according to halacha), but to Joseph.
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Judging Character
TorahLabHow to get G-d to Listen
We should realize how powerful an influence for good we can have on other people's lives, and on our own, when we pray with kavana.
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How to be a Light Unto the Nations
Parshas Noach 1987
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Practical Judaism
In Judaism "not the thought is most important but the deed".
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Shabbat Chanukah
Holiness is found in the most unexpected places.
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Insights 1986
R' Yochanan ben Zakkai asked his disciples to go and see which is the best quality to which a man should cling, his disciple R' Eliezer answered: "A good eye".
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G-D’s Favorite People
TorahLabThe Fall and Rise of Yosef HaTzadik
If we stand face to face with another individual our heart is on their right. Our heart is for them not for ourselves.
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