Binyamin Klempner

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Jul 11, 2017, 9:09 PM

Pinchas – Letters of Courage

BS"D Dear Chevra, About fifteen years ago, while living in the home of the Bostoner Rebbe, Reb Levi Yitzchok Horowitz zt”l, the Cardinal of the Greater Boston Area wrote an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe condemning the State of...

Jul 6, 2017, 6:35 PM

Balak – Letters of Courage

BS”D Dear Chevra, While in North Miami Beach working on my graduate degree in clinical social work I received a phone call. The man on the other line introduced himself as “Rabbi Rubin,” saying he had an important issue to discuss...

Jun 27, 2017, 1:00 PM

Chukas – Letters of Courage

BS"D Dear Chevra, The olam is asked to daven for Dr. Avraham Twerski, Avraham Yehoshua Heshel ben Devorah Leah. Shortly after our marriage, my wife and I were living in Milwaukee, Dr. Twerski’s hometown. On one of his frequent visits, I...

Jun 19, 2017, 12:11 PM

Korach – Letters of Courage

BS”D Dear Chevra, Hanging on my wall, I have a photo of my great great uncle, Reb Levi Yitzchok Haberman, ay’d. I received the photo from my Aunt Pearl before becoming bar mitzvah. Reb Levi Yitzchok was a talmid of the...

Jun 12, 2017, 11:41 AM

Shelach – letters of courage

BS”D Dear Chevra, A number of years ago I was counseling a woman who found herself in a particularly troubling circumstance. As she vented I interrupted her with the question, “Do you believe in God?” Silence...and then, “Of course I believe...

Jun 9, 2017, 11:41 AM

Beholasecha – Letters of Courage

BS"D Dear Chevra, Keil Na, Refah Na La. Please God, Please Heal Her. Moshe’s prayer to heal Miriam after she was stricken with tzoraas, leperosy. A short prayer. Often the shortest prayers are the most effective. The story is told of a...

Jun 2, 2017, 12:58 PM

Nasso – Letters of Courage

BS"D Dear Chevra, On my first visit to Montana, as a seventeen year old American, I got into a conversation with Tinyman (Don) Yellowkidney, son of Buster Yellowkidney, Wartime Chief of the Blackfeet Tribe. Tinyman was trying to impress upon me...

May 30, 2017, 12:25 PM

Shavuos – Letters of Courage

BS”D Dear Chevra, Before his passing, my grandfather, Aryeh Leib Klempner, told me how fortunate I am for studying Talmud in Yeshiva. He said he remembered his grandfather sitting at a table learning Gemorah and that he feels a lack in...

May 24, 2017, 12:20 PM

Bamidbar — Letters of Courage

BS”D Dear Chevra, We’ve all had the experience of being put down. Of being made to feel as if we don’t matter. But the truth is otherwise. In Parshas Bamidbar every Jew is counted. Every Jew matters. Hashem adores each of...

May 16, 2017, 1:39 PM

Behar-Bechukosai (Letter of Courage)

BS"D Dear Chevra, I live in Eretz Yisroel and grow crops (i.e. farm) for a living. The Torah’s directive at the beginning of this week’s Parsha (Parshas Behar), to keep Shemita, is real and personal for me. Stop working. Trust in...

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About Me

At the age of 17 Binyamin Klempner left Teaneck, NJ to pursue a simple existence on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Northern Montana. While residing on the Blackfeet Reservation he discovered the beauty of his Jewish Heritage and traveled to Boston to learn about Jewish life from the Bostoner Rebber, Reb Levi Yitzchok Horowitz, zy"a. From Boston he traveled to Zichron Yaakov where he studied in Yeshiva for a number of years. From there he married and lived with his wife in Milwaukee, WI while studying under HaRav Michel Twerski, shlita. During this time Binyamin also earned a Masters Degree in Social Work. After working as a social worker for several years he moved with my wife and kids to Tiveria, Israel where he works as an organic farmer and homesteader.