Category: Stories about the Rabbi

(Courtesy: Rochelle Ratner) Because he studied textswithout understandingbut felt them in his heartwhen others prayed and because he knew their Godwas his God also:never counting […]

(Courtesy: Yrachmiel Tilles) Once a Jew came to Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev to pour out his heart. He was a well to do business man and […]

(Courtesy: Rabbi Jill Jacobs ) It has become fashionable in Jewish liberal circles to note the irony that Chanukah, historically a victory of religious zealots […]

A fierce looking man ran out of the house, his eyes burning with murderous rage at the coach full of Jews. In his hand he […]

Rebbe Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev once saw a man who davened so fast that his words were an incomprehensible stream of babbling. Reb Levi Yitzchak […]

Courtesy: Eliyahu Touger One year, shortly before the first Pesach Seder, the holy Rebbe, Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, took several of his students into town. […]

(Courtesy: Bnei Akiva and Yeshiva Ohr Amizrahi – Melbourne)

Rav Levi Yitzchak from Berdichev (the Berdichever) would personally serve his guests. His father-in-law said, “For a few dollars, we could hire a servant to […]

The town of Berdichev was buzzing with the news of the death of a certain very wealthy Jew. The townspeople, however, didn’t shed a tear, […]

(This chapter is taken from the book, Dor Deah, written by Yekutiel Kammelharand published in Risha 1, Galicia. Courtesy: JewishGen) Although the illustrious Zaddik, Rabbi […]