Chasidic Stories

as told by Yerachmiel Tilles

Updated every Tuesday

Yerachmiel Tilles is co-founder and associate director of Ascent-of-Safed, and chief editor of this website (and of KabbalaOnline.org). He has hundreds of published stories to his credit, and many have been translated into other languages. He tells them live in Tsfat (Safed) at Ascent and other places nearly every Saturday night.

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CURRENT Story

 

#573

From Tsfat to Hebron and Back

The wife of Rabbi Shmuel of Kaminka was a pious woman who would recite the entire Book of Psalms every day with great fervor.

(Connection: weekly Torah reading--Chevron and the Machpela Cave)

 

LAST Story

 

#572

A Much Deeper Interpretation

As soon as Rabbi Moshe Feinstein walked in to the sick man's room, the patient sent everyone else out.

(Connection: weekly Torah reading--Lot's daughters)

NEXT week's Story

 

#574

After Twenty-eight Years

Well over a thousand people came by to wish Mazel Tov.

(Connection: weekly Torah reading--Decades of childlessness)

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Stories Archive: #101 to #153 (5760)#154 to #204 (5761)
Stories Archive: #205 to #254 (5762)#255 to #309 (5763)
Stories Archive: #310 to #357 (5764)
#358 to #411 (5765)
Stories Archive: #412 to 461 (5766)#462 to #511 (5767)
Stories Archive: #512 to 566 (5768)#567 to current (5769)

For an alphabetical list of the rebbes and sages who have featured in our stories, click here.