Chassidut
The Ba’al Shem Tov’s Torah Innovations
Sometimes, when the Ba’al Shem Tov would convey a Torah teaching, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef of Polonne (known as the Toldot Yaakov Yosef after his book),
The Seven Chambers of Prayer in the World o...
Last week we learned that in our morning prayers, we are in the Chamber of Love from the blessing preceding the Shema Yisrael prayer, Ahavat
The Maggid of Mezeritch: Self-Nullification...
Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch, known as the Maggid of Mezritch, was the greatest disciple of the Ba’al Shem Tov. He was born in Lukatch,
The Kingmaker: the Wondrous Foresight of Re...
Rabbi Aharon Roke’ach of Belz – the fourth Rebbe of the Belz dynasty, was born in Elul 5640 (August 1880) in Belz (which was in
And You Thought Eating was a Simple Matter?...
Rabbi Shimon would say: Three who eat at one table and do not speak words of Torah, it is as if they have eaten of idolatrous sacrifices;
Why Hasn’t Mashiach Come? The three defen...
Above and beyond all of our mundane worries and anxiety, one all-encompassing anxiety hovers in the air: Why hasn’t Mashiach come? Feeling incapable of dealing
Up, Down and Mashiach on Tisha B’Av
The sages say that the Mashiach is born on Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av). It is written that every new
Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum of Satmer: Happiness...
Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the father of the Siget-Satmer dynasty and one of the main disseminators of Chassidut in Hungary, was called the Yismach Moshe, the
The Secret of Synthesis – The Beinoni Par...
Rabbi Hillel of Paritch, one of the great masters of Divine Service among the chassidim of Chabad had a very keen definition for mitnagdim (those
The Secret of Synthesis – The Beinoni Par...
A short synopsis of Rabbi Ginsburgh’s lecture series on the Beinoni, the Intermediary person described in the Tanya, as synthesis. A short synopsis of Rabbi
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