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.
Why does the Torah forbid cutting oneself or tearing out hair for the dead? Drawing on Likutei Halachot, this article explores R' Natan's paradox that true memory depends upon forgetting. It explains how Jewish mourning directs grief away from despair and toward emunah, Olam ha-Ba, resurrection, and the eternal bond between the soul and Hashem.
