Category: Stories about the Rabbi

(Courtesy: Revach L’Neshama) The gemara (Sanhedrin 21b) says that originally the Torah was written in Ksav Ivri and only later in the time of Ezra […]

Courtesy: Revach L’Neshama The Parsha of Kosher and non-Kosher creatures starts in an unusual manner, (Shemini 11:1), “Vayidaber Hashem El Moshe V’El Aharon Laimor Aleihem”. […]

Courtesy: Revach L’Neshama “VaEtna Es HaLevi’im Nesunim L’Aharon” (Bahaloscha 8:19). Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu to set aside the Levi’im and make them Kadosh. Rashi points […]

Courtesy: R’ Tal Moshe Zwecker (Director Machon Be’er Mayim Chaim, Chassidic Classics in the English Language) Rav Chaim Elazar Shapira of Munkascz author of Minchas […]

On one occasion, the Rabbi of Berditchev approached a group of Chassidim after finishing the prayer of the Amidah, shook their hands, greeting them with […]

                            (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 […]