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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.
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,

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CURRENT Story
1461

"A Great Height, Vicious Dogs, and a Spiked Stone Wall"

But Rabbi Schneur-Zalman of Liozhna was confident that the Maggid of Mezritch knew of the widow’s misery down to the last detail. After all, righteous people are not bound by the conventional ways of learning information.

Why This Week? The chasidic festival, Yud-Tes Kislev, will be celebrated from this Monday night through Wednesday.

LAST week's Story

1460

"The Chasidic Rebbe Who Used Communism"

Shortly before World War II, the Modzitzer Rebbe was one of the first Jewish leaders to encourage his followers to flee Europe.

Why This Week? This Shabbat is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Shaul-Yedidiah Taub, the second rebbe of Modzitz.

NEXT week's Story

1462

"A Jewish Hostage's Chanukah"

"The memories are always with me, though not all of them do I try to recall," said the returned hostage. "Yet, the memory of my Chanukah miracle often comes back to me."

Why This Week? This whole week we celebrate the festival of Chanukah.

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