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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.



The Ascent Story Weekly Mailing list is now in its 27th year! It is updated on this site by Tuesday and emailed by Wednesday (including a printable PDF option).
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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.
To join his WhatsApp stories group, see directly below)

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

 

 

The Ascent storyteller WHATSAPP GROUP

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

To Join "TillesTells", or for more about the group,

CLICK HERE

 

 


CURRENT Story
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"The Miraculous Eyeglasses"

Although blind, the young boy was strongly drawn to Jewish holy books. He would remove them from their shelves and lovingly caress their pages. Each book received a kiss before being put back.

Why This Week? In this week's Torah reading, Yitro, which details the 5 days before G-D declaring the Ten Commandments, in verse 19:11[+ Rashi] we learn that all the blind were cured.

LAST week's Story

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"A Rebbe's Bold Answer to a Senior Priest"

Two young Jewish men stood waiting on the platform. Instinctively, Rabbi Y. Schneersohn called them into his carriage; in it he hoped to shield them from serious danger.

Why This Week? The 3rd of the Jewish month of tbe Jewish month of Sh'vat, [2026: Wednesday, January 28, 2026]

NEXT week's Story

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