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Yerachmiel Tilles,
co-founder and first educational
director of Ascent-of-Safed, originator and maintainer of this website, and managing
editor of Kabbala Online. He has hundreds
of published stories in many venues and in (at least) a half dozen languages.
He tells them live in Tsfat (Safed) nearly every week, at his home on Friday evenings
and at Ascent on Saturday nights.
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"A Timely Crossing of The River"
After listening to the innkeeper's request for advice, the Maggid of Mezritch
pointed to the youngest of his companions, Rabbi Shneur-Zalman of Liadi.
"Please go ask him," he responded. "He has exceptional wisdom."
Connections (5):
1- Next Monday night (Dec. 12), starts Yud-Tes [19th] Kislev, a Chasidic
celebration commemorating the yahrzeit of the Maggid of Mezritch, successor
to the Baal Shem Tov;
… 2 - the miraculous release from Czarist prison of Rabbi Shneur
Zalman, the first Chabad rebbe,
… 3 - and the publication of his magnum opus, Sefer Shel Beinonim
("Tanya" vol 1).
… 4 - Also, last Sunday was Yud [10th] Kislev, the anniversary of
the liberation of his oldest son and successor, Rabbi Dov-Ber [see the
last four paragraphs of the story],
… 5 - and the preceding day [last Shabbat] Tes [9th] Kislev, was
the date of R. Dov-Ber's birth and of his eventual passing.
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LAST week's Story |
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"Full Synagogues and Empty Ones"
Of the thirty men gathered in the shul to say the morning prayers, most
seemed to be conducting some type of business transaction.
Connection - Weekly Reading: Gen. 28-16-17 (Yaakov awoke from his dream
and said, "Surely G-d is in this place and I did not realize....
This is none other than the House of G-d, and this is the Gate of the
Heavens.")
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NEXT week's Story |
1305 |
"The Team of Story and Prayer"
The thinking behind the selection of Raphael Levin as one of the delegation
was that many of the members of Etzel and Lechi [Irgun and 'Stern Gang']
had great respect for his famous father, Rabbi Aryeh Levin, especially
those arrested by the British.
Connection: Like Yosef jailed in Egypt, Rabbi Aryeh Levin was "The
Father of Prisoners
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