Month: May 2021

Courtesy: Rechav L’Neshama Chazal tell us that the Mikoshesh Eitzim who was killed in Bais Din for being Michalel Shabbos was a tzaddik. Why did […]

Courtesy: Revach L’Neshama The famed Chassidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev was in the need of a Chazzan, a cantor to lead the High […]

(Courtesy: My morning meditations) When you awake in the morning, learn something to inspire you and mediate upon it, then plunge forward full of light […]

(Courtesy: Rabbi Gil Steinlauf ) We Jews have a lot to be proud of. We have a long and ancient history. We have been beacons […]

(Courtesy: Chabad.org, written by Chana Lewis)A Brief Biography Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740-1809) is one of the most beloved of chassidic leaders. Hundreds of […]

In a particular town (Berdichev) in Russia, there lived a rich doctor who had a special quality: He served free all the needy and did […]

(Courtesy: Rabbi Oded Mizrahi) Rabbi Baruch of Mezibuz sat with his Hassidim in his Beit Midrash (study hall) and expounded on matters of Torah. Unexpectedly, […]

                                                                     (Courtesy: Ruth Gardin) It was Sivan of 5567/1807, and thousands of joyous Chasidim were anticipating the wedding that would unite two illustrious dynasties. The chatan, Yekusiel-Zalman, […]

(Cortesy: Mayer Wise)              The tzaddik Rabbi Yaakov Orenstein zt”l, the Yeshuos Yaakov, lived in the city of Yeroslav, in which the following story occurred (this […]