by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Sep 5, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
I just met the Rav of Brisk, Rav Chaim. I kid you not. This past Thursday night, I was returning a rental car at Ben Gurion airport and awaiting a ride to the terminal in a courtesy van. I was waiting together with a man and his teenage son. We introduced ourselves...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 22, 2016 | Divrei Torah
Parshas Vayeishev – Erev Chanukah The Midrash (Bereishis Rabbah 2:4) records cryptically how the Greeks decreed upon the Jews to “inscribe on the horn of the ox that you have no portion in the G-d of Israel.” Different understandings of this decree have been...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 14, 2016 | Current Events, Divrei Torah
Vayishlach Jewish Foreign Policy: A Test Case Applying the wisdom of Torah to contemporary challenges is never simple; it is however exceptionally challenging when it comes to Jewish foreign affairs. Our Sages taught us that Parshas Vayishlach contains the template...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 14, 2016 | Divrei Torah
Dvar Torah Toldos Riding in an Israeli cab recently, I was making small talk with the driver and inquired as to his family history. He told me that his grandparents had come to Israel from “Persia” in 1950. I shared that I found this intriguing, because while...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Dec 9, 2016 | Divrei Torah
Each week in our shul, we pray for Israeli soldiers missing in action and assumed held by enemy forces. We have been praying for these young men each Shabbos for many years, praying for them to be restored to their families. The list that we use has names that have...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Nov 15, 2016 | Divrei Torah
Avraham has an interrupted journey when he follows G-d’s command. He is instructed to travel to Eretz Yisrael with the promise that he would receive every form of blessing, yet shortly after his arrival there famine strikes, causing him to leave for Egypt. ...
