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...

Person in the Parsha: Chukat

July 05, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“DISCOVERING OUR MORTALITY”

It was at a house of mourning, and she was saying something that I had heard many times before. In fact, I had said it myself when I was sitting shiva for my...

Person in the Parsha: Korach

June 28, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“THE SECRET OF REMAINING CORRECT”

Very often, we think that if a person is especially spiritual, he cannot possibly be very practical. It is as if religious devotion and...

Person in the Parsha: Shelach

June 21, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“CALEB AT THE CROSSROADS”

Imagine standing at a crossroads. We have all been there. We have all experienced moments in our life’s journey when we had to make a...

Person in the Parsha: Beha’alotecha

June 14, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“A SECOND CHANCE“

I was in a total fog during my first year in high school. I am convinced that my experience then was not unique. I entered a strange school, much larger...

Person in the Parsha: Naso

June 07, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“CAN CHAYN MEAN ‘CHARISMA'”

I once loved the word. I first heard it when I was introduced to the thought of German sociologist Max Weber. He differentiated between several types of...

Person in the Parsha: Bemidbar

May 31, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“ELITE BY COMMITMENT”

Scholars have had a lot to say about the role of aristocracy in the course of human history. Those of us who grew up in the...