Category: Stories about the Rabbi

(From Fear to Faith) Rabbi Janet Marder – Erev Yom Kippur 5765 – September 24, 2004 Belief comes hard to many contemporary Jews. We have […]

No one could get Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev angry. No matter what anyone did, he would always find something nice to say. He believed […]

Once Rabbi Levi Yitzhak was asked : “Why is the first page number missing in all the tractates of the Babylonian Talmud? Why does each […]

(The following drosha was given at the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo by thr Rabbi Yaacov Haberon Shabbos Korach, 5747 (1987), and transcribed from memory by […]

[Lawrence Kushner is a writer, teacher, and rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Sudbury, MA.(USA)] The story is told of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev that […]

Jews are a special people, no use denying it. The Rabbi of Berdichev knew this better than most. One year, the day before Pesach, the […]

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton – Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim – Kfar Chabad Israel The Baal Shem Tov taught that G-d must be served with joy, and that […]

Adapted from the L’Chaim Weekly Magazine The shul began to fill up long before sunset. People crowded in eagerly, despite the fast, to hear the […]

Rabbi Tuvia Bolton – Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim – Kfar Chabad Israel It was a cold miserable December day when Shmerel the Rich Miser of Breditchev […]

Adapted from the L’Chaim Weekly Magazine In the town of Berdichev, the shul of the famous Rabbi Levi Yitzchak began to fill up even before […]