Author: jspunberg

                            (Courtesy”Elisha Greenbaum) The synagogue was packed to the rafters. The whole town had gathered as one for the annual Simchat Torah celebration. Only moments to go, […]

(Courtesy: Judeopundit) The central observance of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar. The famous chassidic sage Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev explains the […]

                                                                (Courtesy: Rabbi Noah Kaplan)

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 […]