blogs/rabbi-huberman

Parashat Re'eh

When I enter a dollar store, I sometimes wonder if I am doing the right thing.

Of course, like many, I like to conserve resources. A Talmudic teaching says that the money we save by spending less is the extra money we can give toward tzedakah (charity) or investing in the education or the welfare of our families.

But...Read more...

Parashat Va'etchanan: "Observe the Shabbat"

About 20 years ago, a rabbi conducted an informal survey to identify the question most asked by Jews of their rabbi.

Could it be, “What is the meaning of life?” or “Why were we born?” or “Where do we go after our earthly days are over?”

No. Not even close. According to the rabbi, The answer was: “Why...Read more...

Parashat Matot-Massei

“After all, what have we got here? A little bit of this, a little bit of that. A pot, a pan, a broom, and a hat." Anatevka, Fiddler on the Roof

According to the store receipt, I paid my final visit about an hour before the end.

I left the synagogue at about 1:45 pm, Thursday, on the premise that our shul’s coffee nook needed a new...Read more...

Parashat Balak: “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel.” (Numbers 24:5)

I have a question relating to privacy.

When you send an email or text - perhaps containing something sensitive or personal - do you expect your message to remain private?

It’s a question we consider whenever we put something to paper – or...Read more...

Parashat Shelach Lecha: "We looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them.” Numbers 13:33

During the days prior to my bar mitzvah, I received many gifts to commemorate the event.

Most of them have faded into time.

But perhaps the most enduring was a small book given to me by my mother titled “A Boy’s Handbook to Becoming to a...Read more...