“A squad of police arrived with a court order to demolish his sukkah. The Rebbe replied: ‘I built my sukkah in order that it should stand…’” One year, as the festival of Sukkot was approaching, an epidemic raged through Nadvorna. The physicians warned the townsfolk to take all possible hygienic […]
Weekly Chasidic Story
The Rabbi moved to stand in front of him and told him to sit down. “Open your mouth wide and I will pour into it this boiling lead,” he said severely. A Jew who had acted against the Torah all his adult life suddenly started to be terrified by the […]
The Boiling Lead Treatment – by Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles
“Everything was falling apart…” Dr. Abraham Twerski z”l was a renowned psychiatrist and rabbi who descended from a long line of revered Hasidic leaders. On the Sabbath and holidays, he would retreat to his home, where he invited guests to share festival meals with his family. At these meals, he […]