Month: June 2021

There’s a Hasidic story about Yom Kippur in Berdichev, centuries ago. All the Jews were gathered in one synagogue, waiting for their rebbe, Levi Yitzhak […]

(From Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev’s Kedushat Levi) The Torah Should be Accepted through a Personal Decision, “Not in order to receive a reward.” …That is why Israel […]

             This all reminds me of a story of R’ Levik of Berditchev, that a bochur came to him and said that he needed a tikkun […]

(Courtesy: Beth David-Center of Leadership in Israel ) Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev said: The Haggadah speaks of four sons: One wise, one wicked, one […]

(Courtesy: Simon Jacobson) Organized religion is often denounced by skeptics as intent on suppressing logic and singular expression. The Biblical commandment to “fear G-d” is […]

             It is told that above the modest apartment of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev lived a shoemaker. Late one night, when Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was […]

(Courtesy: Yanki Tauber) The disciples of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev noticed that something was amiss. Yom Kippur, the most awesome day of the year, […]

(Courtesy: Yehudah Chitrik) A well-known preacher once came to Berdichev before Rosh Hashanah and requested permission from the head of the Jewish community to preach. […]

                                              (Courtesy: Louis Jacobs) Levi Yitzhak’s work, Kedushat Levi (Holiness of Levi) is a commentary in the Hasidic vein to the Pentateuch and other sacred books. The first […]