Category: Rabbi Levi Ytzhak

There is a well known segula practiced by many that when in an es tzara – a time of danger, distress or simply when confronted […]

After Kiev, we went on to Berditchev, where Rabbi Levi Yitzchok, also known as the Berditchever Rebbe is interred. The Berditchever was one of the main […]

(Courtesy: Moshe Kempinski) The Saturday night before Yom Kippur was also the last night of Selichot ( penitential prayers) before the start of “the Awesome […]

(Courtesy: Kivrei Tzadikim) Rabbi Levi Yitzchok was born in 5500 in Hoskov to a famous rabbinical family, which for 26 generations had passed from father […]

(Courtwsy: Rabbi Marc D. Angel) The great Hassidic master, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, taught: There are those who hear the Shofar on Rosh HaShana, […]

(Cortesy: Rabbi Lawrence Kushner) Every great leader must maintain his or her own precarious and perpetually shifting balance between the debilitations of humility and the […]

The Legacy of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev – October 19th, 2009 (Courtesy: Chabad.org – by Rabbi Shmuel Simenowitz ) Two hundred years after his […]

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                                                        (Courtesy: North Western Reform Synagogue) Rabbis come in all shapes and sizes! Let’s ignore physical stature as I really don’t want to talk about […]

(Courtesy: Rabbi Hyim Shafner, Jewish Journal, September 24, 2009) Yom Kippur will arrive this week and thousands of Jews will attend synagogues.  Why is it that […]