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 –...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Oct 27, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
Yom Kippur 5778 – Yizkor Six weeks ago, I traveled to Atlanta to give a talk commemorating the yahrzeit of an old friend who passed away very suddenly, in his 50’s, a man named Moishe Esral. What was most striking about the experience was the clarity I received from...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Oct 27, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
Yom Kippur 5778, Neilah The Talmud (TB Berachos 5b) tells a story about how during Rabbi Eliezer’s final illness Rav Yochanan came to visit him. Rav Yochanan was a strikingly beautiful person, who literally lit up the room. But in the light, Rav Yochanan saw that...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Oct 9, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
Rosh Hashana 5778- First Day Our family was once visiting the National Gallery in Washington. As we passed through the gallery’s display of the works of the Impressionists, we found an artist sitting near one of the paintings with her easel and canvas, working to...
by Rabbi Moshe Hauer | Oct 9, 2017 | Divrei Torah, Moadim
Rosh Hashana 5778- Evening תקעו בחדש שופר בכסה ליום חגינו כי חק לישראל הוא משפט לאלקי יעקב Sound the Shofar at the moon’s renewal, at the appointed time for our festive day, for it is a decree for Israel, judgment day for the G-d of Yaakov. We will recite this verse...
