As told by Yerachmiel Tilles
The co-founder and first educational director of Ascent-of-Safed, originator and maintainer of this website, and managing editor of Kabbala Online. He has hundreds of published stories to his credit, and many have been translated into other languages. He tells them live in Tzfat (Safed) nearly every week, at his home on Friday evenings and at Ascent on Saturday nights.
The first two books of his 3-volume series, “Saturday Night, Full Moon“ and “Festivals of the Full Moon”, featuring a selection of his best stories, are now available for purchase – through ASCENT-in-
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