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As told by Yerachmiel Tilles,

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 in many venues and in (at least) a half dozen languages. He tells them live in Tsfat (Safed) nearly every week, at his home on Friday evenings and at Ascent on Saturday nights.
To subscribe to his weekly email story, join his WhatsApp group for an additional audio story and video story,and/or to purchase any of his books, see the 3 announcements below.



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(For informtion on the hard-cover and soft-cover story collections of Y. Tilles, look to the right of the photo.)

The books of the
"Full Moon stories" series
by Yerachmiel Tilles

are available for purchase
in Jewish bookstores internationally,

and online on various booksellers' sites
(Google search on "Yerachmiel Michael Tilles" )

SAMPLE REVIEWS by:

Amazon Yanki Tauber Batya Medad Daniel Keren Rivkah Lambert Adler

 

 

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a different Audio, Video and Print story each Saturday night!

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CURRENT Story 		1508

"Choose, Table or Shelf"

Rebbe Moshe-Mordechai of Lelov signaled to the unknown surprise visitor to approach him, then whispered something in the man's ear. The man turned away and rushed outside.

Why This Week? Candlelighting as a mitzvah is not mentioned anywhere in the written Torah. There is, however, a hint to it near the end of this week's Torah reading (Gen. 24:67 + Rashi from the Midrash).

LAST week's Story

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"The Rebbe and the Professor"

Rabbi Sholom-Dovber Schneersohn (the Rebbe Rashab) told the student in his yeshiva to travel to Charkov to the famous doctor there, emphasizing that he should inform Professor Pabrikant that the Rebbe himself had sent him.

Why this week? This Shabbat, the 20th of the Jewish month of Mar-Cheshvan, is the anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe Rashab in 1860.

NEXT week's Story

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