Month: May 2021

(Courtesy: J. Immanuel Schochet) The meeting in Rovno was stormy and eventful. The disciples of Rabbi DovBer, the Maggid of Mezritch, the successor to the […]

(Rabbi Levi Yitzhak was one of the Magguid’s students) Born: Lukatch, Volhynia, 1704 Died: Hanipol, 1772 When Dov Ber was a small child of five, […]

(Mentor of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak ) Born: Chortkov, Galicia, 1726 Died: Nikolsburg, Moravia (now Czechoslovakia), 1778 The firstborn son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Chortkov, […]

Courtesy: Tzvi Freeman There are many myths and legends about the Baal Shem Tov. Even the most fantastic ones they say, are true — because […]

Courtesy: Tzvi Freeman On the 18th of Elul 5757 (Sept. 20 1997), we entered the 300th year of the Baal Shem Tov. (The Baal Shem […]

  (1698-1760) The early life of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov is surrounded by mystery. As founder of what is possibly the single most important religious […]

(Courtesy: Debbie Shapiro) Shavuot is the yehrtzeit of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Chassidism, and Rebbe Nachman’s great-grandfather. It was the beginning of […]

SEFER YUHASIN(Pedigree Chart)R’ Yaakov Yitzhak WAHRMAN Courtesy of Israel PikholzNote that in several cases (maybe more), he clearly uses “grandson” to mean “descendant.” Special thanks […]

RABBI LEVI YITZHAK Levi Yitzhak was born in 1740 into a distinguished rabbinical family, his father a rabbi in Hoshakov, Galicia. Levi Yitzhak married into […]

RABBI LEVI YTZHAK “The Berdichever Rabbi”(1740-1810) (Courtesy Rabbi Asman) Rabbi Levi Yitzchak had been a child prodigy, acclaimed in his early years as an illuy […]