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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.

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Amazon Yanki Tauber Batya Medad Daniel Keren Rivkah Lambert Adler

 

 

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"Zilber's WW2 'Passover in Safed' Plan"

Must he agree? In his mind he pictured it: sitting at a Seder table while locked in prison with detained immigrants at the Safed police station. The very idea jarred him. Suddenly, a thought lit up his mind. "Wait a moment… I'm a religious Jew. Passover is about freedom. How can I voluntarily celebrate that behind bars? No way!"

Why This Week? 1) A main theme in this week's Torah reading, Shemini, is the Kosher Dietary Laws; 2) Last week was the festival of the Seventh Day of Pesach, while next week (on Nisan 30) is our annual celebration here, "Tsfat Liberation Day"; 3) Next week is the Shaloshim (30 days since the departure to Heaven) of a special member of the Tsfat Chabad community, who shares the same first name as the hero of the above story. So this story is dedicated for the soul elevation of YITZCHAK-MOSHE BEN YOSEF-CHAYIM Kadosh. a"h

LAST week's Story

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"Drowning in The Sea"

When I was six years old, at the beach, sitting on a sandbar, I was pulled into and submerged in the water. I wasn't afraid, though. I saw in my mind's eye a farmer, chasing after animals. Looking back, I realize that I had been in danger of drowning, but at the time, I was not afraid. I was watching cartoons!

Why this week? The festival of the Seventh Day of Passover celebrates the Crossing of the Reed Sea by hundreds of thousands of Jews [who survived…and tens of thousands of Egyptians who didn't.]

NEXT week's Story

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