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Because She is Mine
By Chana Weisberg
Ours is definitely a give-and-take relationship: I give her everything I've got, and she takes. Yet precisely because she doesn't give anything in return is the connection so strong
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A Bundle of Greens
By Yerachmiel Tilles
One day, arrived in Taranow. This was before the Chassidic master had revealed himself to the world, and he appeared as a simple itinerant, but with a gift for telling stories...
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The Dripping Hat
By Yanki Tauber
Be wholesome ('tamim') with G-d (18:13) To be 'tamim' with G-d means: Walk with Him with simplicity and without guile. Do not seek to manipulate the future; rather, accept whatever He brings upon you wholeheartedly. Then, He will be with you and you will ...
Library » Stories » Bookshelf » Once Upon A Chasid » Deuteronomy » Shoftim » The Dripping Hat
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When Less Is More
By Yanki Tauber
- "I know my son, I know. Also he shall become a nation, also he shall be great; but his younger brother shall be greater than he…" (48:19) The wholesome simplicity of a simple Jew touches upon the utterly simple essence of G-d. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem ...
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Revolution
By Yanki Tauber
Every hundred years or so, a person comes along and changes the way we look at ourselves and our world. But there is something that is rarer still -- someone who will tell us something that we already know
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Shmerl's Seder
By Tuvia Bolton
The Rebbe looked around him. It was obvious that only he had heard the heavenly announcement. "Has anyone heard of a tzaddik called Shmerl the Tailor?" he asked. No one had
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The Cantonists' Minyan
By Tuvia Bolton
The few who survived were so emotionally and psychologically destroyed that they were never able to live normal lives. They lived together in little villages, apart from the rest of the world
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The Prayerbook
By Yanki Tauber
"Perhaps I can help you," said the Baal Shem Tov. On small slips of paper he wrote, in simple Yiddish, "morning prayers," "addition for Mondays and Thursdays," "for Shabbat," and inserted them in the innkeeper's siddur
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The Baal Shem Tov's Sixteenth Birthday
From the writings & talks of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
When the man saw me he asked: "What is a small child doing all alone in the forest? Are you not afraid to be in the forest all by yourself?"
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Bitachon
By Jay Litvin
Are you hero or victim? The hero who never cries nor feels the fear, the panic, the regrets that are part and parcel of his condition? The victim who never encounters his bravery nor feels the transcendent power of rising above death, if only for a ...
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