Collected Archive of Shoemaker Reports
The Shoemaker Report is Rav Hoshea’s weekly Torah publication. Its focus is on internalizing and living Torah from the heart, not only from the head. The divrei Torah often take the parashah of the week as their point of entry and address central questions of inner avodah — including teshuvah, prayer (tefillah), emunah, bitachon, and related areas of spiritual and personal refinement.
The writing assumes seriousness from the reader and speaks from within Torah life, with meaning emerging organically from honest analysis of our holy Torah and the words of Chazal, rather than from short-lived inspiration or simplified conclusions.
When Avraham was cast into Nimrod’s fiery furnace, he wasn’t proving courage—he was revealing perfect bitachon, trust beyond outcomes. Why was Avraham saved while Haran perished? Discover how absolute surrender to Hashem lifts a soul above nature itself—and what it means to truly let go.
Why We Need to Know that Yoav was Buried in the Desert: Have you ever paid attention to how one thing leads to another, which leads to another, and so on, and before you know it, you've ended- up somewhere seemingly unrelated to where you began? If you've ever actually
It has become a popular saying, often attributed to Mark Twain (although there is no known source that he ever said it) that, 'If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed, but if you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.' If true, we would seem to be caught between a rock
