Category: Stories about the Rabbi

(Courtesy: Yosef Jacobson) Last year I celebrated Passover in the remote city of Kobe, Japan with Jews from secular backgrounds who hadn’t seen a Seder […]

Keith Miller (Hazzan) – Director of Education One year Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev spent a long time in search of a man who would […]

Today, with refrigerated shipping and guaranteed worldwide delivery it is relatively easy to get a Lulav and Etrog set almost anywhere (for a price, of […]

Question:In the Torah, the Yom Tov is called Chag HaMatzos. Why do we call it Pesach? Answer:Reb Levi Yitzchok of Bardichev explains it in the […]

Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev had the biggest sukkah in the city. It had to be big. After all, it had to have room for […]

Retold by Doug Lipman The cantor of Berdichev had taken to brooding about his position. In almost any other house of prayer – the distressed […]

‘ Levi Yitzchak was once visiting the supernal realms. While there, the Satan mounted a massive assault against the Jewish people. He and his helpers […]

A wealthy cattle merchant was in a dilemma. He had many head of cattle to sell, but the market bottomed out. He went to R’ […]

abbi Levi Yitzchak once visited the Chozeh of Lublin. The Lubliner brought him some coffee and wanted to pour the coffee into the cup first and […]

Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev in the Ukraine, used to say that he had discovered the meaning of love from a drunken peasant. The rabbi […]