Now Rabbi, I know your greatness. Shavuot is the yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov. Once there was a cloth merchant who lived in Medzhibuz, the hometown of the holy Baal Shem Tov. The merchant wanted to sell his wares in the city of Whitefield, but was afraid to go […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
THE POWER OF A JOKE… When you have a personal connection to a story, it always makes the impact greater. There were two brothers in Monsey NY, Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yechiel Tauber, both community leaders who worked together for the sake of the growing Jewish community. Reb Azriel was […]
THE POWER OF A JOKE… A personal story from Rabbi ...
It happened one Purim in the early 1980’s when Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz –a.k.a. Schwartzie — was working as a college campus Rabbi at UCLA [the University of California in Los Angeles]. He was pushing for students to hear a public reading of the Megilah [Scroll of Esther], but not a […]