Kabbalah and non-Jews
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Safed, says that the study of Kabbala by non-Jews can be "positive", but only if done in the proper manner…
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
The birthdays of both the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement, and Rabbi Shneur Zalman, the Baal HaTanya, fall on the 18th of Elul, a holiday for many Chasidim.
Lag B’Omer 1923
The word spread quickly. Almost instantaneously, melancholy gloom replaced the exuberant rejoicing. The singing stopped, the dancers froze; the mother's...
Only Mine…
His face was white, bloodless. Hope had been crushed into bleak despair. He felt that the rapid shift from extreme to extreme threatened his sanity...
The Seventh Year
We were among the very few settlements in Israel at the time to observe the laws of the Sabbatical year and refrain...
The Jerusalem Shofar
"I have something on my conscience that has been bothering me for years," he told them. "I'd like to get it off my chest once and for all...
A Whisper in Time
"We know the truth. If our master delayed the wedding procession to confide secrets in your ear, it is obvious that you are a holy man."
Fifty Year Old Honey
A story about Rebbe Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. The price of honey remained low, so the barrels remained in their cellar, untouched and unnoticed...
A Joke Made in Heaven
The prankster ran into the kitchen, explained the joke to her, and then asked her to play her role...