by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Mar 24, 2019 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
When Adar enters joy increases. When Av enters joy decreases. What is it about these two months that causes joy to fluctuate? There is much discussion in the world of relationships about the ratio of criticism to praise. Marriage researcher John Gottman has found that...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Mar 20, 2019 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
The conflict of the Jewish people and Amalek – central to the story of Purim – is a continuation of the ongoing struggle between their forebears, Yaakov and Eisav. Yaakov and Eisav were twins, but whereas some twins are identical, these twins were opposites. Yaakov...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Feb 6, 2018 | Current Events, Divrei Torah
Imagine a State of the Union address that – instead of measuring progress relative to the promises made during the most recent election campaign – used the yardstick of the values and goals articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 14, 2017 | Current Events, Divrei Torah, Moadim
Dvar Torah Chanukah 5778 Even as Chanukah celebrates the impressive Hasmonean victory over the Greek armies, we more prominently commemorate the miracle of the hidden flask of Menorah oil. And while the battlefield conjures up images of strength and bluster, Chanukah...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Oct 27, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Moadim, Other
Shabbos Shuva 5778 Robert Coles is a professor emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard who taught classes on morality. In a classic essay titled “The Disparity Between Intellect and Character”, he begins as follows: Over 150 years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a lecture at...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Oct 27, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
Yom Kippur 5778 – Kol Nidrei I want to read to you a letter, a letter that tells an amazing story. The letter was personal, but made such an impression upon its recipient that he had it published in the Baltimore Jewish Times of April 27,1945. Sidney Cohn –...
