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.
The lineage of Mashiach passes through the unlikely nations of Moav and Ammon, through Rut, Na'amah, and David ha-Melech. This essay explores why geulah must emerge from such spiritually compromised beginnings, and how Sefer Tehillim, the ten types of niggun, and the avodah of David transform yagon and anachah – sorrow and sighing – into sasson, simchah, prayer, song, and new life.
William Ernest Henley was an English poet, writer, critic and editor who lived from 1849-1903. At the age of 16, he had his left leg amputated due to complications arising from tuberculosis of the bone. When he was in his 20s, he developed major problems with his other leg and
