Stories

This week we read a story about the Tzemach Tzedek, the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the work he did with the Cantonists and in helping others avoid that fate. For those who don’t already know about the Cantonists there’s a bit of an introduction to that period of history at the beginning of the episode. [...]

Last week we read a story about the Rebbe Maharash, the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. This week we read an Erev Yom Kippur story about his wife Rebbetzin Rivkah, her son, and her grandson. This story is taken from Extraordinary Chassidic Tales, an unfortunately out of print series of books.

This week’s story is a story about Rabbi Akiva and his wife Rachel. When Rachel met Rabbi Akiva, then a shepherd in her father’s employ, he was illiterate. But she saw wisdom in him and agreed to marry him if he would go to learn Torah…which of course first meant learning to read. The long [...]