Rosh Hashanah 5784
Dear STOCS Friend: As we approach the Awesome Days of 5784, I would like to extend my wishes to you for a happy and healthy New Year. ...
Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech
Dear STOCS Friend “And choose life.” The Torah simply informs us how to achieve a meaningful life. However, this does not come about...
Parshat Ki Teitzei
Dear STOCS Friend: Parshat Ki Tatzae contains seventy-four of the six hundred thirteen mitzvot found in the Torah. All of us, at one...
Parshat Shoftim
Dear STOCS Friend: In shul yesterday I shared the following vort. The Torah teaches when a person hates another individual and mortally...
Parshat Re'eh
Dear STOCS Friend: A question posed to me numerous times: does God really care what we put into our mouths? Why should it make a...
Parshat V'etchanan
Dear STOCS Friend: The countdown has begun! Today is the tenth of Av which means two months from now, will be Yom Kippur. How should we...
Parshat Devarim
Dear STOCS Friend: Without mincing words, the Gemara in Yerushalmi states: כל דור שאינו נבנה בימיו מעלין עליו כאילו הוא החריבו Any...
Parshat Pinchas
Dear STOCS Friend: The Midrash teaches men create a breach and women come to repair it. Many times, in Tanach, we see men fomenting...
Parshat Korach
Dear STOCS Friend: As we age, people tend to decrease the amount of sodium in their diet. Many see salt as detrimental to acceptable...
Parshat Nasso
Aristotle is quoted as saying, “Virtue is the golden mean between two extremes." In my forty years of Rabbanus, I have never seen our...
