By Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles “I guess I’ll never know…” I was in a concentration camp in Hungary, near the Romanian border, under the rule of the accursed Nazis. When their defeat was all but official, and the once-mighty German war machine was retreating in the face of the advancing Russian […]
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By: Rabbi Mordechai “BIG MO” Siev Leah hails from Turkey. Part of her trip to Israel included a Shabbat at Ascent. She was so excited by her Shabbat experience that she extended her stay and attended my Tanya class on Sunday morning. She was very inspired by the discussion of […]
Direction for Life
“…be my servant for a month!” Reuven and Naftali [not their real names] were roommates at the prestigious Chabad yeshiva in Brunoy, a suburb 20 km (13 miles) southeast of Paris. Before the 10th of the Jewish month of Shvat 5752 (Jan. 1992), Reuven won a lottery for a ticket […]