Author: jspunberg

(The following drosha was given at the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo by thr Rabbi Yaacov Haberon Shabbos Korach, 5747 (1987), and transcribed from memory by […]

[Lawrence Kushner is a writer, teacher, and rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Sudbury, MA.(USA)] The story is told of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev that […]

Jews are a special people, no use denying it. The Rabbi of Berdichev knew this better than most. One year, the day before Pesach, the […]

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton – Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim – Kfar Chabad Israel The Baal Shem Tov taught that G-d must be served with joy, and that […]

Adapted from the L’Chaim Weekly Magazine The shul began to fill up long before sunset. People crowded in eagerly, despite the fast, to hear the […]

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton – Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim – Kfar Chabad Israel It was a cold miserable December day when Shmerel the Rich Miser of Breditchev […]

Adapted from the L’Chaim Weekly Magazine In the town of Berdichev, the shul of the famous Rabbi Levi Yitzchak began to fill up even before […]

(Martin Buber, Tales ot the Hasidim, The Early Masters) “An unbeliever once expounded to the rabbi of Berditchev that even the great old masters had […]

(Adapted from the Hasidic Soul, told by: Yehoshua Rubin) Teshuvah means return, return to your most essential self. How do we return? That is a […]

Told by: Joseph Telushkin When the nineteenth century Hasidic rebbe Levi Yizchak of Berditchev sent out invitations to his son’s wedding, he wrote that it […]