April 24, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“TO BE HOLY IS TO BE KIND”
Those were the days. I reflect upon them often lately. They occurred more than sixty years ago when I and about a...
April 17, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“HOLINESS: A DEFINTION”
He never returned phone calls. He certainly never returned e-mails. He rarely smiled.
He had very sophisticated tastes in wine and fine liquor. A...
April 17, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“GOING AT IT ALONE”
“No man is an island.” “It takes a village.” These are just some of the clichés that are used to convey the importance of social...
April 10, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“AND AARON WAS SILENT“
He was an old man, and in many ways came from a very different world than I. And yet he taught me more than anyone else ever did. One...
March 27, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“IMAGINE THAT!“
There was a time when I would only go out of my way to listen to speakers who were older and more experienced than I. Recently, however,...
March 20, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“SHABBAT HAGADOL AS INDEPENDENCE DAY“
I remember well when the age at which one could vote or drink was 21. From my perspective when I was...
March 20, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“COURTESY AND CONFIDENTIALITY”
“There is no such thing as privacy anymore.”
“There are no secrets anymore.”
These are two complaints that are heard frequently nowadays.
...
March 06, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“THREE DIMENSIONS”
Since my childhood, I have been an avid reader. When I first discovered the joy of reading, I read everything I could get my hands on. Even...
March 06, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“DON’T TAKE DOWN THE SIGN!”
Times were very different then. When one of our books was torn, we didn’t junk it. We took it to a little shop where a bookbinder rebound it.
...
February 20, 2026
By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB
“A Prelude to Purim”
The great man, who died late in the 19th century, 1892 to be exact, was known as the progenitor of a group of one of...
