Category: Rabbi Levi Ytzhak

(Courtesy: Rabbi Yaakov Meir Shechter)  This is the lesson of the Three Weeks: that even in a time of exile, even when God is most […]

Leviticus 16:1 – 18:30 (Courtesy: Rabbi Howard Cohen) What keeps Judaism going after all these years? According to verse 16, there have always been “those […]

Courtesy: Dr. Ismar Schorsch) In his comment on our parashat, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, a much beloved third-generation Hasidic master who died in 1809, […]

(Courtesy of Michael Berg, author of “The Way”) In this week’s portion, Avraham sends his servant Eliezer to find a wife for his son, Yitzchak. […]

Rabbi Ron Shulman, Congregation Ner Tamid of South Bay, Rancho Palos Verdes, California“A Defining Moment” Yom Kippur 5762 Sermon September 27, 2001 On this Yom […]

The Kaddish evolved from a simple line of biblical praise to a liturgical formula for dividing the liturgy into its parts and for celebrating a […]

(By Rabbi Lavey Y. Derby – Director of Jewish Life – Foster City – CA – USA) In Berdichev, the wind whispers prayers as it […]

Courtesy: David J. Fine Kol Nidrei 5766 “God” The story is told of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, who once asked an illiterate tailor what […]

A feature which has typified Jews’ relationships to God from as far back as Abraham and Moses is that God can be argued with and […]

       Courtesy: N. Slberberg The Shabbat is called “Shabbat Chazon.” The Haftarah of this Shabbat begins with the words “Chazon Yeshayahu,” “the vision (prophecy) of Isaiah” […]