“He…tiptoed alone up to the window and peeked in.” Selichot are poetic penitential prayers recited during the week before Rosh Hashanah. This year we will say them the most times possible. According to Ashkenazi custom we begin this Saturday night [September 17] after midnight and continue before the morning prayers, […]
Weekly Chasidic Story
“I think I know the right girl …” There was once a rich man who was a chasid of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740 –1810), one of the most popular rebbes in Chasidic history. When the man’s son reached the proper age to marry, he came to the Rebbe […]
A Valuable Book Sale
“…an Arab standing behind me with a machete!” A Boyaner chasid, Noach Segal, came to Melbourne, Australia to be the chazan (cantor) for the High Holidays of 5771 (2010). Rabbi Mordechai “Mottel” Krasnjanski noticed that from time to time in the middle of the services the chazzan would pause and […]