Chasidic Stories

as told by Yerachmiel Tilles

Updated every Tuesday

Yerachmiel Tilles is co-founder and associate director of Ascent-of-Safed, and chief editor of this website (and of KabbalaOnline.org). He has hundreds of published stories to his credit, and many have been translated into other languages. He tells them live in Tsfat (Safed) at Ascent and other places nearly every Saturday night.

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CURRENT Story	#580	*The Torah Scroll From Auschwitz* The Maryland rabbi who went looking for a Torah scroll with a metal detector in a graveyard. (Connection: In memory of the Holocaust, for the Fast Day of Asara B'Tevet)

LAST Story	#579	The Power of Positive Thinking No one ever disturbed the Ziditchover Rebbe* during the late night hours, which he devoted to Torah study and prayer.* (Connection: weekly Torah reading--45:27)

NEXT week's Story	#581	A Mid-Winter Shabbat Sacrifice "I snatched up the bottle of vodka that was on the table and ran out of the room." (Connection: seasonal)

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Stories Archive: #101 to #153 (5760)	#154 to #204 (5761)
Stories Archive: #205 to #254 (5762)	#255 to #309 (5763)
Stories Archive: #310 to #357 (5764)	#358 to #411 (5765)
Stories Archive: #412 to 461 (5766)	#462 to #511 (5767)
Stories Archive: #512 to 566 (5768)	#567 to current (5769)

For an alphabetical list of the rebbes and sages who have featured in our stories, click here.