Person in the Parsha: Ki Tavo

September 13, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“Didn’t You See Them?”

It is a question that I learned never to ask. I first learned this lesson in my training as a psychotherapist, long ago. I was...

Person in the Parsha: Ki Tetzei

September 06, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“THE DUTY OF CIVILIANS IN WAR“

It seems that war is one of the most common of all human activities. Study history of the human race, and you will not find many years...

Person in the Parsha: Shoftim

August 30, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HIRSH WEINREB

“TREE-LIKE” 

I love metaphors. An apt metaphor can help stimulate boundless creativity and can lead to a deeper and richer understanding of the concept being studied.

Take, for example, the metaphor of a...

Person in the Parsha: Re’eh

August 23, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“HOW AM I DOING?”

 If your child, employee, or colleague asks you that question, you can be sure that he or she is sincere, wishes to learn, and will...

Person in the Parsha: Ekev

August 16, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“DISCIPLINE AND SUFFERING”

 As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing. In that capacity, I have frequently...

Person in the Parsha: Va’etchanan

August 09, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“Unanswered Prayers”

 It is a question with which every religious person has at one time been confronted and been confounded. Even those of us who are not theologically inclined...

Person in the Parsha: Devarim

August 02, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“A TIME AND A PLACE”

“He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” We have all heard this phrase, and many of us have used it. It...

Person in the Parsha: Matot-Masei

July 26, 2024

 By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“HONESTY AND INTEGRITY”

Every so often, I come across a sentence of another person’s writing which expresses one of my own thoughts in a language far superior...

Person in the Parsha: Pinchas

July 19, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB 

“LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP”

Too often, leaders cling to power. They are so intoxicated by the privileges of their position that they become blinded to their own vulnerabilities and even...

Person in the Parsha: Balak

July 12, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“ONLY WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR“

“We only hear what we want to hear. We only see what we want to see.”

This statement about human nature, pessimistic though it may be, rings...