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| May 12 | UPCOMIMG JEWISH HOLIDAY: LAG B"OMER (18 IYAR / Thursday, sunset, May 15 - Shabbat Eve, May 16) |
| May 12 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Lag B'Omer Departure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai" (LAG B"OMER) |
| May 12 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Greatness of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai" (LAG B"OMER) |
| May 12 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Most Popular Lag B'Omer Song" (LAG B"OMER) |
| May 12 |
This Week's Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, St ory#1431: "In Life-Threatening Danger at the Tombsite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai" |
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May 12 |
BONUS Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles for Lag b'Omer: "Miracle in Meron" [for the audio version, send a request for A02] |
| May 12 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: essay for parshat EMOR/Lag b'Omer -- Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter, Executive Director of ASCENT |
| May 12 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Priestly Misconduct" (EMOR) |
| May 12 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: MORE for parshat EMOR from Kabbalah sages and Chasidic masters, and on KabbalaOnLine.org |
| May 12 | Pirkei Avot: Cycle 1: Week 4, Chapter 4 -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics |
| May 5 | RECENT JEWISH HOLY DAY: Pesach Sheini (2nd Pesach) Monday, 14 IYAR / 2025: May 12 |
| April 28 |
CURRENT Jewish Month: IYAR 5785 [April 27, sunset - May 27] |
| April 21 | Pirkei Avot: Weeks 1-6: Introductory and Concluding Verses for Pirkei Avot |
| April 15 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Counting Towards the Wedding Canopy" (Seven Weeks of Counting Omer) |
| March 24 | Chassidic/Kabbalah Stories: Brief Biographical Glimpses of all the main characters in alphabetical order, cross-referenced to the story ID numbers UPDATED! |
| March 24 |
Ascent storyteller WhatsApp Group and email list: a different embedded audio, embedded video and linked print story each Saturday night. THIS WEEK's Schedule |
| Support Ascent: A shorter, simpler, more efficient Donation page, including 3 new PayPal links and updated addresses | |
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| "Festivals of the Full Moon" (vol. 2) and "Saturday Night, Full Moon" (vol. 1) are available for purchase in Tsfat at ASCENT, online at KorenPub, at better Jewish bookstores internationally, and on Amazon in both hardcover and Kindle editions | |
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| May 12 |
Next Week's Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1432: "Holy Exchanges" (Lubavitcher Rebbe) |
| May 12 | Pirkei Avot: Cycle 1: Week 4, Chapter 4 -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics |
| Recent features and selected Oldies but Goodies -- a sampling | |
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May 5 |
Last Week's Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1430: "The Perpetually Burning Flame for Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai" (Chortkov Rebbes father & son) |
| May 5 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Outer Body Experience" (Acharei Mot) |
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April 28 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1429: "'Over the Chin is Also Sufficient'" (the Rebbe Maharash) |
| April 28 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Kosher Indicators" (Tazria-Metzora) |
| April 21 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Carnivorous and the Kind" (Shemini) |
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April 21 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1428: "Passover Seder in the Safed Prison" (Tsfat Liberation Day - Nissan 30,1948) |
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April 15 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1427: ""Drowning in the Sea" (Lubavitcher Rebbe) |
| April 15 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "When G-d Told Us Not to Pray!" (7th Night-Day of Pesach) |
| April 15 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Teacher and the King" (8th Night-Day of Pesach) |
| April 7 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Matzah and Midnight" (Passover Seder Night) |
| April 7 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Consuming Fire of Loving-kindness" (Tzav) |
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April 21 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1428: "Passover Seder in the Safed Prison" (Tsfat Liberation Day - Nissan 30,1948) |
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April 7 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1426: "The First Passover Seder Ever in Ho Chi Minh City" (Chabad shluchim) |
| March 31 |
RECENT Jewish Month: NISAN 5785 [March 27, sunset - April 29] |
| March 31 | RECENT JEWISH HOLIDAY: Festival of PESACH ['Passover'] |
| March 31 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Giving Yourself" (Vayikra) |
| March 24 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Annual Blessing over Fruit Trees in Bloom" (month of Nisan) |
| March 24 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Original New Moon" (Shabbat HaChodesh) |
| March 24 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "This Month's for You" (Shabbat HaChodesh) |
| March 24 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Gold Rush" (Pikutei) |
| March 17 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Peaceful Shabbat" (Vayakhel) |
| March 17 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Red Calf in Kabbalah" (Shabbat Parah) |
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March 17 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1423: "Shabbat by Halves" (Mr Ami Pykovski) |
| March 17 | RECENT JEWISH HOLIDAY: PURIM! |
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March 10 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1422: "Another Purim 26 Days Before Purim" [Saragossa] |
| March 10 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Discovering Queen Esther" (PURIM) |
| March 10 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Behind the Masks" (PURIM) |
| March 10 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Purim and the Secret of Wine" (PURIM) |
| March 10 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Lifting Your Head" (KI TISA - Shelah) |
| March 3 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Secrets of the Priestly Breastplate" (Tetzaveh - Baal Shem Tov) |
| March 3 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Erasing Amalek" (Shabbat Zachor - Chassidic Masters series) |
| Feb. 24 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Two Tabernacles for Two Realities" (TERUMAH - Alsheich) |
| Feb. 17 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Nullifying Witchcraft" (Mishpatim) |
| Feb. 12 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Site to Behold" (Yitro) |
| Feb. 12 | PREVIOUS JEWISH HOLIDAY: Tu (15th) b'Shevat: The New Year's Day for fruit trees in Israel. |
| Feb. 5 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: MORE for parshat Beshalach from Kabbalah sages and Chasidic masters, and on KabbalaOnLine.org |
| Jan. 27 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Connection Deeper Than Natural" (BO) |
| Jan. 27 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "New Moon, New Light" (Rosh Chodesh) |
| Jan. 20 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah:"Was Wicked Pharoah Really Wicked?" (Shemot-Va'eira-BO) |
| Jan. 20 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Two Names for Two Brothers" (Va'era) |
| Jan. 13 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "To Speak in Your Name" (Shemot-Va'eira_Rabbi Nachman Kahana) |
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Jan. 13 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1414: "The Mysterious Aroma of the Garden of Eden" (Rebbetzin Shterna-Sarah, Rebbes of Lubavitch and Munkatch) |
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Jan. 6 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1413: "Nazi Executioner Meets His Jewish Grandchildren" |
| Jan. 6 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Cross-Handed Blessing" (Vayechi) |
| Dec. 30 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Paving the Royal Highway" (Vayigash) |
| Dec. 23 | BONUS story for Chanukah : "BEND DOWN FOR HER" VIDEO LINK |
| Dec. 23 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Dreams and Circles" (Miketz) |
| Dec. 23, 16 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Yehuda and Tamar" (Vayeishev + "A Chanukah Drama") |
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Dec. 16 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1410: “The Yokel at the Theater" (Alter Rebbe of Chabad) |
| Dec. 16 | RECENT CHASIDIC HOLY DAY: Yud-Tet Kislev 5785 |
| Dec. 16 | BONUS story for Yud-Tet Kislev: "The Black Carriage" (Rabbi Shneur-Zalman, the first Lubavitcher Rebbe) VIDEO LINK |
| Dec. 9 | BONUS story for Yud-Beit Kislev: "A Tsfat Ticket to Success" (The Avritcher ["Bat Ayin"] Rebbe) VIDEO LINK |
| Dec. 9 | RECENT CHASIDIC HOLY DAY:Tet-Yud Kislev |
| Dec. 9 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Special Bar-Mitzvah Guest" (Vayishlach) |
| Dec. 2 |
Recent Jewish Month: KISLEV 5785 |
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Dec. 2 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1408: “The Disheartening Response of the Lubavitcher Rebbe" |
| Dec. 2 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Dreams and Visions" (Vayeitzei) Dreams and Visions |
| Nov. 25 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Yaakov vs. Esau in Kabbalah" (TOLDOT) |
| Nov. 18 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Kabbala and the Eastern Religions" (CHAYEI SARAH) |
| Nov. 11 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Deeds of Kindness with Added Mystical Intentions" (VAYEIRA) |
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Nov. 4 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles, for the start of the special request for prayers for rain in Israel to be inserted into the daily prayers VIDEO LINK |
| Nov. 4 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: ""Leaving Home" (LECH LECHA) |
| Oct. 28 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Mighty Waters and Fiery Love" (No'ach) |
| Oct. 28 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: MORE for SHABBAT BERESHIS, from Kabbalah sages and Chasidic masters, and on KabbalaOnLine.org |
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Oct. 21 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #28, Story#1402: “A Courageous Outrageous Simchat Torah Blessing” (in Kazakhstan) |
| Oct. 21 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Female Adam" (SHABBAT BERESHIS) |
| Oct. 21 | BONUS story for SIMCHAT TORAH: "Sweet Songs I Shall Weave" (The Lubavitcher Rebbe) VIDEO LINK |
| Oct. 21 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Festival of Shemini Atzeret-Simchat Torah" |
| Oct. 21 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Humble Willow" (HOSHANAH RABBA) |
| Oct. 21 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Mystic Math" (ZOT HaBracha - the last chapter of the "Five Books of Moses ") |
| Oct. 14 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Delivery to the Nations" (SUKKOT) |
| Oct. 14 | BONUS story for SUKKOT: "A JEW'S SUKKAH & G-D'S FRUIT TREES" (First Day of Sukkot) VIDEO LINK |
| Oct. 7 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Yom Kippur on Shabbat" (YOM KIPPUR) |
| Oct. 7 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Purifying the Holy of Holies" (YOM KIPPUR) |
| Oct. 7 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Uttering THE Name" (YOM KIPPUR) |
| Oct. 7 | BONUS story for YOM KIPPUR: "R. LEVI-YITZCHAK VS. THE SATAN" (The Berditchever Rebbe) VIDEO LINK |
| Sept. 30 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Shofar" ROSH HASHANA) |
| Sept. 30 |
RECENT JEWISH FESTIVAL: ROSH HASHANA 5785 (Wednesday, Oct. 2, sunset - Friday, Oct. 4, sunset) |
| Sept. 23 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "All Your Heart and Soul" (Netzavim) |
| Sept. 23 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Multiple Souls of Adam" (Vayeilech) |
| Sept. 16 | RECENT CHASIDIC HOLY DAY : CHAI (18th) ELUL |
| Sept. 16 | BONUS story for CHAI [18] ELUL: "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" (The Baal Shem Tov & the Baal Tanya (Alter Rebbe of Chabad) VIDEO LINK |
| Sept. 16 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Greater Joy" (Ki Tavo - Shelah) |
| Sept. 9 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Getting Paid on Time" (Ki Teitzei - the Holy Ari) |
| Sept. 2 |
RECENT Jewish Month: ELUL 5784 |
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Sept. 2 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1395: "Jobless, Twenty-Seven Years Old, And Single" |
| Sept. 2 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Divination: Forbidden and Permitted" (Shoftim) |
| Aug. 26 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Spiritual and Selfless" (RE'EY) |
| Aug. 19 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Not by Bread Alone" (EKEV) |
| Aug. 19 | RECENT JEWISH HOLY DAY : CHAMISHA ASAR (15th) B'AV |
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Aug. 12 |
Recent from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1392: "The Bareheaded Bus Driver's Desire For Shabbat” |
| Aug. 12 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Audio-Visual-Connections" (Vaet'chanan) |
| Aug. 5 - Sept. 2 |
RECENT Jewish Month: MENACHEM-AV |
| Aug. 5 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Healing of Hearing by Seeing" (Devarim) |
| Aug. 5 |
Sages of Safed: "Yahrzeit of the Ari" (Hei [5th] Av) |
| Aug. 5 | BONUS story for 5 Av: "Revealed on a Forehead" (The "Holy ARI" of Safed - Rabbi Yitzchak Luria) VIDEO LINK |
| Aug. 5 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Shabbat of Vision" (Devarim) |
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July 29 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1390: "What Was, Was. Now Start Anew” (Rabbi Y.D. Grossman) |
| July 29 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The 42 Journeys of Our Lives" (Massai) |
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July 22 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1389: "The Tzadik that Slapped a Donkey" (Chacham Menachem Menashe) |
| July 15 |
Recent Chasidic Festival: "The Arrest (story#347) and Liberation (story#1021) of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe" (12-13 Tammuz / Wed. night - Friday, July 17-19) |
| July 8 | The Lubavitcher Rebbe - 30th yahrzeit: A Brief Biography |
| July 8 | A personal story with The Lubavitcher Rebbe from one of Ascent's founders VIDEO LINK |
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July 1 |
Recent Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1386: "Appointed Messengers from Heaven" (Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu) |
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June 24 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1385: "The Flying Four-Cornered Garment" (IDF - Gaza) |
| June 24 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Praying at Ancestral Graves" (Shelach) |
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June 10 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- "How to Hear the Ten Commandments" (SHAVUOT) VIDEO LINK |
| June 10 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "An Angelic Visitation" (Safed Sages) |
| May 20 |
RECENT JEWISH FESTIVAL: (Lag bOmer) |
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May 20 |
Previous Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1380: "THE CRASHING WHEELCHAIR" (Vizhnitz - MERON) |
| May 13 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Priestly Misconduct" (EMOR) |
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May 13 |
Previous Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1379: "The Double Organ Donator" |
| May 6 | Current Events: "Israel's Ambassador to the UN Strongly Critiques the UN at the UN" a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 22 minute VIDEO |
| May 6 | Torah and Science: "The Orthodox Jewish Student Who Won Gold in the International Science Olympiad" |
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April 29 |
Previous Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1377: "A Series of Impositions" (*Pirkei Avot, Ch. 1) |
| April 25 |
RECENT JEWISH FESTIVAL: (Last Days of PASSOVER) |
| Apr. 16 | BONUS story for 11 Nissan and Passover Seder: A personal one with The Lubavitcher Rebbe from one of Ascent's founders VIDEO LINK |
| April 16 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: Kosher Indicators" (Tazria-Metzora) |
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April 9 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1375: "THE ASTONISHING WRONG-LINE BLESSING" (Lubervitcher Rebbe) |
| April 2 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Carnivorous and the Kind"" (Shemini) |
| Mar. 18 |
"Erasing Amalek" (SHABBAT ZACHOR - Chassidic Masters series) |
| Mar. 4 |
Prayer & Meditation:: "Lecha Dodi" |
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Mar. 4 |
Recent Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story#1369: "A Precious Coin" (SHABBAT SHEKALIM) AUDIO LINK |
| Feb. 12 | RECENT Jewish Holy Days: Two ADARS: "Maintaining the Cosmic Balance -- 60 days of Jewish Calendar Calisthentics" |
| Feb. 19 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Secrets of the Priestly Breastplate" (Tetzaveh) |
| Feb. 12 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Two Tabernacles for Two Realities" (Trumah) |
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Feb. 12 |
Recent Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1366: "A Two-Way Surprise at the Tsfat Cemetery" |
| Feb. 5 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Nullifying Witchcraft" (Mishpatim - Baal Shem Tov Talmud lesson) |
| Jan. 29 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Earthly and Heavenly Chariots" (Yitro) |
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Jan. 22 |
Previous Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1363: "Divinely Arranged Synchronicity" (Schwartzes) |
| Jan. 22 | ASCENT'S 41ST ANNUAL TU B'SHVAT SEDER! - Wednesday sunset, January 24, 7:30pm, reservation required |
| Jan. 22 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Tu B'Shvat in Your Dreams" |
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Jan. 22 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- “TROPICAL ORANGES IN A RUSSIAN WINTER ORCHARD” (15th of Shvat) New Year's Day for fruit trees in Israel VIDEO LINK |
| Jan. 15 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: Offer Yourself" (Yud (10th) Shvat - ch. 2 of the immortal chasidic discourse, 'Basi l'Gani) |
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Jan. 15 |
Previous Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1362: "HOW TO FOOL THE SECRET POLICE" (6th Lubavitcher Rebbe) |
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Jan. 15 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- "The Reserved Chair" (10th of Shvat: Shabbat): yahrzeit of the Rebbe Rayatz) VIDEO LINK |
| Jan. 22 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Leaders of People and of Time" (Beshalach) |
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Jan. 8 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- "Rebbe’s Rebbe" (2nd of Shevat): yahrzeit of Rabbi Meshulam-Zushia) VIDEO LINK |
| Jan. 1 | Jews and Sports: "A Gold Medal for Gaza" |
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Jan. 1 |
Previous Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1360: "Naming a Mother and a Daughter" (Lubavitcher Rebbe) |
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Jan. 1 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- "From Moshe to Moshe": (20th of Tevet: Sunday night - Monday) yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon - the Rambam) [watch the Ascent storyteller tell it on YouTube!] |
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Jan. 1 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- "More Enlightened than the Enlightenment" (24th of Tevet: Thursday night - Friday): yahrzeit of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, founder of Chabad) [watch the Ascent storyteller tell it on YouTube!] |
| Dec. 26 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Deeds of Kindness with Added Mystical Intentions" (Ramak) |
| Dec. 26 | Jews and Sports: "The Kabbalah of Chess" |
| Dec. 18 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Fast Day of the Tenth of the Tenth" (Friday, Dec. 22) |
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Dec. 11 |
Bonus Chanukah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1357: "Chanukah Sorcery in Iran" |
| Dec. 11 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "From Sinai to the Internet" (Chanukah) |
| Dec. 4 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Yehuda & Tamar" (A Chanukah Drama) |
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Dec. 4 |
A Previous Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1356: "The Nazi’s Grandson From Bordeaux" (Lubavitcher Rebbe) |
| Nov. 27 | RECENT Chasidic Celebration: YUD-TET KISLEV 5784 (Shabbat, Nov.25) |
| Nov. 13 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Yaakov vs. Esau in Kabbalah" (Toldot) |
| Nov. 6 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Kabbalah and the Eastern Religions" (Chaye Sara) |
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Nov. 6 |
Weekly Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1352: "Sons of Fatima" (Rav Mordchai Eliyahu) |
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Oct. 30 |
"Amazing ASCENT Story from the Gaza war" (Story #1351) |
| Oct. 30 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The First Jewish Delicatessen" (Vayera) |
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Oct. 30 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- "The Guest Who Wore All White" (11th of Cheshvan (Wednesday night-Thursday): yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinul) VIDEO LINK |
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Oct. 23 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles-- "The King, The Jews, The Rain" (7th of Cheshvan (Saturday night-Sunday): beginning of prayers for rain in Israel) VIDEO LINK |
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Oct. 23 |
Previous Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1350: "Two Crumpled Pictures" (Kfar Veradim) |
| Oct. 9 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: ""The Female Adam" (Bereishis - Apter Rebbe)" |
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Oct. 9 |
Weekly Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1348: "Accessing the Hidden Light of Creation" (Baba Sali) |
| Sep. 26 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Mystic Math" (Zot HaBracha - Chasidic Masters series) |
| Sep. 18 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Purifying the Holy of Holies" (YOM KIPPUR) |
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Sep. 18 |
BONUS Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1345: "Stranded in Kano" (YOM KIPPUR) |
| Sep. 18 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Heaven-Inspired Torah Code" (Ha'azinu) |
| Sep. 11 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Mystical Secret of the Shofar" (ROSH HASHANA) |
| Sep. 4 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Multiple Souls of Adam" (Vayeilech) |
| Aug. 28 | RECENT Chasidic Celebration: CHAI ELUL 5783 (Sunday night - Monday, Sept.3-4, 2023) |
| Aug. 14 |
Holy Sites: Benyamin HaTzadik (29th of Menahem-Av) |
| Aug. 14 | RECENT Jewish Holy days: The "Last-Chance Month" of Elul |
| Aug. 14 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Divination: Forbidden and Permitted" (Shoftim) |
| Aug. 7 | BONUS story for 20 Av: "Kabbalah vs. the Draft Board" (father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe) VIDEO LINK |
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July 31 |
Previous Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #26, Story#1338: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Even-Yisrael (17th of Menahem-Av) |
| July 17 |
Sages of Safed: "Yahrzeit of the Ari" (Hei [5th] Av) |
| July 17 |
Kabbalah:
Kitvei Arizal - the
Writings of the Holy Ari
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| June 26 | BONUS story for 9 Tammuz: "Death-March Water Revelation" (heard from a relative of a Jew who was there!) VIDEO LINK |
| June 5 | Jews and Sports: "Speedy Beatie Wins Again" (Track) |
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May 22 |
BONUS Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles for Shavuot: "An Angelic Visitation" VIDEO LINK |
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May 8 |
BONUS Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles for Lag b'Omer: "Miracle in Meron" [for the audio version, send a request for A02] |
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April 3 |
Archive Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #26, Story#1321: "From Chabad to Conservative" (Lubavitcher Rebbe) |
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March 6 |
BONUS Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles for PURIM: "The Rabbi vs. the Ayatollah" |
| March 6 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Purim and the Secret of Wine" (PURIM) |
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Feb. 27 |
BONUS Story for the "Shabbat of Remembering" [for the audio version, send a request for A36] |
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Jan. 16 |
BONUS Story for the "Shabbat of the Half-Shekel" [for the audio version, send a request for A42] |
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Jan. 16 |
BONUS Story for the yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe of Chabad (watch the Ascent storyteller tell it on YouTube!) |
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Jan. 9 |
BONUS Story for the yahrzeit of the Rambam (Maimonides) (watch the Ascent storyteller tell it on YouTube!) |
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Dec. 19 |
BONUS Chanukah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles -- "Chanukah in Bergen-Belson" (Tchaber Rav, Satmer Rebbe) [for the audio version, send a request for A79] |
| Dec. 19 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: Who Knows Eight?" (Chanukah) |
| Dec. 12 |
RECENT Chasidic Celebration: "A Tale of Two Stories" (Yud-Tes Kislev) |
| Mar, 14 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Behind the Masks" (PURIM) |
| Jan. 24 |
Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Kabbalah Soul Music" |
| Nov. 29 | Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Meditation on the Chanukah Candle" (Chanukah) |
| Aug. 9 | Current Events: "Teenage Jewish Boy Saves Elderly Jewish Woman's Life" |
| Feb. 1 | BONUS Story for this week: "The Rebbetzin in Action" |
| Nov. 9 |
Weekly Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles -- Year #24, Story #1196, featuring: "Schwartzie in Hebron" |
| Sep. 14 | List of 13 stories for the upcoming holidays from "Festivals of the Full Moon" by Yerachmiel Tilles, the Ascent storyteller. |
| Mar. 23, 2020 | Current Events: "A Meditation for CCPVirus-Induced Isolation and Lockdowns" |
| Feb. 3 | Jews and Sports: "Lessons from the Super Bowl" |
| Feb. 26 | Life at Ascent: Staff Profiles (updated) |
| Jan. 15 |
Shoot the Rabbi: Q: "Why do you stress Judaism as a religion? We see it primarily as a culture." Response: |
| Mar.28 | Life at Ascent: University of Haifa student review of Ascent |
| Feb. 1 | Life at Ascent: short video clip from our 33rd annual Tu bShvat Seder |
| Jan. 11 |
Guest Speaker: "A
Torah Perspective on Darth Vader"
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| Sept. 7 | SPECIAL FEATURE: "The Kabbalah of Coffee" |
| June 16 | 5-STAR
REVIEW on Amazon.com for the Kindle edition of
"Saturday Night, Full Moon" by Yerachmiel Tilles, the Ascent storyteller.[preview] |
| May 26 | RAVE
REVIEW by acclaimed author Yanki Tauber for "Saturday
Night, Full Moon" by Yerachmiel Tilles, the
Ascent storyteller. Available for purchase in Tzfat through ASCENT, or else from the publisher in Jerusalem. [preview] |
| July 22 | Life at Ascent: Shabbat Experience in Mystical Tzefat (improved) |
| May 6 | Chassidic/Kabbalah Stories -- Another amazing story with CORRECTED AUDIO LINK |
| Oct. 29 | Shoot!: The ASCENT Question & Answer Forum menu (updated: "Jewish Yoga?"--at Beliefs #15) |
| Sep. 3 | Ascent Studies: Links page (updated) |
| Mar. 19 | Torah and Science: Global Ecology |
| Feb. 27 | Kabbalah: "What is Kabbalah and Why?" -- more definitions |
| Jan. 22 | Era of Moshiach - "Moshiach and the Moon" |
| Jan. 22 | Prayer: Morning Blessing #17 - Women's perspective |
| Aug. 15 | Life at Ascent: Ascent's First Thirty Years (updated) |
| June 13 | Kabbalah/Chasidut: "Recommended Reading List" (corrected) |
| Perennials | |
| Life at Ascent: Original, unique, breathtaking Kabbalah Exhibit | |
| Life at Ascent: Map to Ascent from the Central Bus Station (now GPS compatible!) | |
| Life at Ascent: Seminar Reviews | |
| Life at Ascent: 30th annual Safed Klezmer Festival (Ascent schedule w' Festival schedule) August 22-24. 2017 | |
| Life at Ascent: What is Ascent? | |
| Life at Ascent: Staff Profiles | |
| Life at Ascent: Contact us | |
| Ascent Studies: Links page | |
| Prayer & Meditation: Annual Blessing on Blossoming Fruit Trees (month of Nisan) | |
| Meditation: A Woman's Shabbat Candlelighting Meditation | |
| Ascent Studies: Free E-subscriptions | |
| Kosher Humor: Ascent "Kosher Humor" archives open for the merry month of Adar only | |
| Life at Ascent: short video clip from our 33rd annual Tu bShvat Seder | |
| "One Shabbat, One World" International Shabbaton - | |
| Ascent on the Road!: TWO Reunion Shabboses in L.A. with BIG Mo | |
| Upcoming Jewish Festival: "New Moon of Nissan" | |
| Prayer: "Lecha Dodi": Original rhyming translation and commentary. | |
| Pirkei Avot: Introductory & Concluding verses -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics | |
| Pirkei Avot: Chapter 1 -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics | |
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Kabbalah:
"The Lag B'Omer Departure
of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai" (Lag B'Omer)
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Kabbalah:
"Deeds
of Kindness with Mystical Intentions" (Ramak)
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| Chasidut/Kabbalah: "For a Full Month" (KiTeitze, Elul - Ohr HaChayim) | |
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Sages of Safed: "Yahrzeit of the Ari" (Hei [5th] Av -- August 5-6) |
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Kabbalah:
Kitvei Arizal - the
Writings of the Holy Ari
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| The Lubavitcher Rebbe - 30th yahrzeit: A Brief Biography | |
| A personal story with The Lubavitcher Rebbe from one of Ascent's founders | |
| Chassidic/Kabbalah Stories -- Tuesday of this week (Kislev 12) is the 185th yahrzeit of the Avritcher Rebbe of Tsfat, author of the mystical Torah book, "Bat Ayin" | |
| Chassidic/Kabbalah Stories: The rainy season in Israel begins tonight! For "rainy season in Israel" stories, see #103 and 106 (both in "Saturday Night, Full Moon") and 528, a Safed story | |
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Excerpts from 5 reviews of "Saturday Night, Full Moon" by Yerachmiel Tilles, the Ascent storyteller. [extract] |