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...

Person in the Parsha: Bechukotai

May 26, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“WALKING THE WALK”

It is good for the body and good for the soul. It helps one lose weight, provides time for contemplation, is a favorite leisure activity, it can...

Person in the Parsha: Behar

May 17, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB 

“THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE”

It is a lesson I first learned in a course I took on the skills of interviewing long ago. The instructor taught us that...

Person in the Parsha: Emor

May 10, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“THE UNBURIED CORPSE”

Dead. Unburied. Abandoned. Forgotten.

What can be a worse fate?

I once read a very moving novel about the events immediately preceding...

Person in the Parsha: Kedoshim

May 03, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“I GET NO RESPECT!”

I love visiting residences for senior citizens. For one thing, being around truly older people invariably helps me feel young by comparison.

Recently,...