MAY YOU EXPERIENCE A JOYFUL MONTH OF TISHREI!

 

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Sep. 26

UPCOMING Jewish Holiday: SUKKOT (Friday sunset, September 29 - sunset, Oct. 6)

Sep. 26

UPCOMING Jewish Holiday: SHEMINI ATZERET + SIMCHAT TORAH (Friday sunset, sunset, Oct. 6 - nightfall, Oct. 7 [8th])
Sep. 26

Chasidut/Kabbalah: An essay on this week's Festival Torah reading, Sukkot (by Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter, Executive Director of ASCENT
Sep. 26

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Mystic Math" (Zot HaBracha - Chasidic Masters series)
Sep. 26

Chasidut/Kabbalah: ""A Delivery to the Nations" (Bat Ayin - Sukkot)

Sep. 26 Chasidut/Kabbalah: MORE on the Festival of Sukkot and the reading of Zot HaBracha, from Kabbalah sages and Chasidic masters, and on KabbalaOnine.org

Sep. 26

Weekly Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1346: "The Floating Sukkah" (Sukkot)
Sep. 26

Ascent storyteller WhatsApp Group and email list: a different embedded audio, embedded video and linked print story each Saturday night. THIS WEEK's Schedule

Sep. 18

RECENT Jewish Holiday: YOM KIPPUR 5784 (Sunday sunset, September 24- nightfall, Sept, 25)
Sep. 11 Chassidic/Kabbalah Stories: Brief Biographical Glimpses of all the main characters in alphabetical order, cross-referenced to the story ID numbers UPDATED!
Sep. 11 CURRENT Jewish Month: Tishrei 5784 (Friday sunset, September 15 - October 15)

Sep. 4

Recent Weekly Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #26, Story#1343: "The Single Unatonable Sin" (Rabbi BenZion Abba Shaul)
 
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Sep. 26

UPCOMING Jewish Holiday: SUKKOT (Sunday sunset, September 24 - nightfall, Sept, 26)

Oct. 4

Next Week's Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1347: (Simchat Torah)
Recent features and selected Oldies but Goodies -- a sampling
Sep. 18

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Purifying the Holy of Holies" (YOM KIPPUR)

Sep. 18

Last Week's 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

RECENT Jewish Holiday: ROSH HASHANA 5784 (Friday sunset, September 15 - nightfall, Sept, 17)
Sep. 11

Chasidut/Kabbalah: An essay for ROSH HASHANA , by Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter, Executive Director of ASCENT
Sep. 11

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Walk, Don't Fly" - Zohar (ROSH HASHANA)

Sep. 11

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Mystical Secret of the Shofar" (ROSH HASHANA)

Sep. 11

ROSH HASHANA Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #27, Story #1344: "Secret Power of the Shabbat Stew" (; Tzemech Tzedek)
Sep. 4

Chasidut/Kabbalah: An essay on this week's double Torah reading, Netzavim-Vayeilech, by Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter, Executive Director of ASCENT
Sep. 4

Sep. 4

Sep. 4 Chasidut/Kabbalah: MORE on this week's double Torah Reading, Netzavim-Vayeilech, from Kabbalah sages and Chasidic masters, and on KabbalaOnine.org
Aug. 28

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Greater Joy" (Ki Tavo)

Aug. 21

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Getting Paid on Time" (Ki Teitzei)

Aug. 28 CURRENT 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 Month: ELUL 5783 (Wednesday night, Aug. 16 - sunset, Sept. 15)
Aug. 14 RECENT Jewish Holy days: The "Last-Chance Month" of Elul
Aug. 14

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Divination: Forbidden and Permitted" (Shoftim)

Aug. 7

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Spiritual and Selfless" (RE'EH)

Aug. 7 BONUS story for 20 Av: "Kabbalah vs. the Draft Board" (father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe) VIDEO LINK

July 31

Weekly Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #26, Story#1338: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Even-Yisrael (17th of Menahem-Av)

July 31

RECENT Jewish Holiday: (Chamisha Asar [15th] b'Av)
July 31

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Not by Bread Alone" (Ekev)

July 24

Chassidut/Kabbalah: "Bleeding Curtain Miracle" (Tisha b'Av)
July 24

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Audio-Visual-Connections" (Va'et'chanan)
July 17

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Shabbat of Vision" (Devarim)
July 17

Sages of Safed: "Yahrzeit of the Ari" (Hei [5th] Av)
July 17
Kabbalah: Kitvei Arizal - the Writings of the Holy Ari
July 17 BONUS story for 5 Av: "Revealed on a Forehead" (The "Holy ARI" of Safed - Rabbi Yitzchak Luria) VIDEO LINK
July 17 Jews and Sports: "From Fans to Players"
July 17 RECENT Jewish Month: MENACHEM-AV 5783 (Tuesday night, July 18 - August 16)
July 10

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The 42 Journeys of Our Lives" (Massai)
July 10

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Holy Pleasures" (Mattos)
July 3

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Brotherly Love" (Pinchas)
June 26

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Seeing With a Blinded Eye" (Balak)
June 26 BONUS story #1 for 12-13 Tammuz: "Jewish Leader Arrested by Jewish Communists" (Rebbe Rayatz)
June 26 BONUS story for 9 Tammuz: "Death-March Water Revelation" (heard from a relative of a Jew who was there!) VIDEO LINK
June 19 BONUS story for 3 Tammuz: A personal one with The Lubavitcher Rebbe from one of Ascent's founders
June 19

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Saving Lives" (Chukat)
June 12

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Mouth-to-Mouth" (Korach)
June 5 Jews and Sports: "Speedy Beatie Wins Again" (Track)
June 5

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Praying at Ancestral Graves" (Shelach)
May 29

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Blow Those Trumpets" (Beha'alotecha)
May 22

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Fasting While Eating" (Naso)

May 22

BONUS Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles for Shavuot: "An Angelic Visitation"
May 22

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Ten + Ten + Ten" (Shavuot - Zohar)
May 22

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Site to Behold" (Shavuot)

May 15

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Blessing From the Heart" (Bamidbar - Zohar)
May 8

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Lag B'Omer Departure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai"

May 8

BONUS Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles for Lag b'Omer: "Miracle in Meron"
May 8

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Ultimate Release" (Bahar)
May 8

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Holy Exchanges" (Behukotai)

May 1

Chassidic/Kabbalah Stories: Brief Bios of Main Personalities in all 1300 plus stories, cross-referenced according to story #. Expanded
May 1

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Priestly Misconduct" (Emor)
April 24

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Getting Paid on Time" (Kedoshim)
April 17

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Kosher Indicators" (Tazria-Metzora)
April 17 Chasidut/Kabbalah: Rosh Chodesh IYAR 5783 - Friday & Shabbat

April 3

Weekly Chassidic/Kabbalah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles--Year #26, Story#1321: "From Chabad to Conservative" (Lubavitcher Rebbe)
March 27

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Throw A Frog At Story Time" (Shabbat HaGadol & Pesach - Zohar)
March 27

Chasidut/Kabbalah: ""Blessed Seder Preparations" (Shabbat HaGadol - 'The Warsaw Ghetto Rebbe')
March 20

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Original New Moon" (Rosh Chodesh Nissan)
March 13

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Peaceful Shabbat" (Vayakhel)
March 13

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Gold Rush" (Pikudei)

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)

Feb. 27

BONUS Story for the "Shabbat of Remembering"
Feb. 27

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Fallen King" (Shabbos Zachor- "The Shabbat of Remembering")
Feb. 20

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Month of Mazal" (ADAR)
Feb. 13

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Small Silver Coin of Redemption" (Shabbat-Shekalim)
Feb. 6

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Earthly and Heavenly Chariots" (Yitro)

Jan. 16

BONUS Story for the "Shabbat of the Half-Shekel"
Jan. 30

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "When G-d Told Us Not to Pray!" (Beshalach)
Jan. 30

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Leaders of People and of Time" (Beshalach)
Jan. 23 Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Offer Yourself" (YUD SHVAT -- Tues. night-Wed, Feb. 1) ch. 2 of the immortal chasidic discourse, 'Basi l'Gani]
Jan. 23

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Connection Deeper Than Natural" (BO)

Jan. 16

BONUS Story for the yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe of Chabad
Jan. 16

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Two Names for Two Brothers" (VA'ERA)

Jan. 9

BONUS Story for the yahrzeit of the Rambam (Maimonides)
Jan. 9

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "To Speak in Your Name" (Shemot)
Jan. 2

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Cross-Handed Blessing" (Vayechi)
Dec. 26

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Paving the Royal Highway" (Vayigash)

Dec. 19

BONUS Chanukah Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles -- "Chanukah in Bergen-Belson (Tchaber Rav, Satmer Rebbe)
Dec. 19

Chasidut/Kabbalah: Who Knows Eight?" (Chanukah)
Dec. 19

Chasidut/Kabbalah: From Sinai to the Internet" (Chanukah)
Dec. 19

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Yehuda & Tamar -- A Chanukah Drama" (Vayeishev-Chanukah)

Dec. 12

RECENT Chasidic Celebration: "A Tale of Two Stories" (Yud-Tes Kislev)
Oct. 3

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Delivery to the Nations" (Sukkot - Bat Ayin)

Oct. 3

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Purifying the Holy of Holies" (Yom Kippur)

Oct. 3

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "A Heaven-Inspired Torah Code" (Ha'azinu)

Sept. 19

Chasidut/Kabbalah: What is a Soul" - (Rosh Hashana - Chasidic Masters series)
Aug. 29

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Divination: Forbidden and Permitted" (SHOFTIM)

Aug. 22 Safed Shuls: List of active synagogues in Zefat Old City UPDATED
Aug. 8 Chasidut/Kabbalah: Tu b'Av and the Full Moon" (Fifteenth of Av)
June 27 The Lubavitcher Rebbe - 28th yahrzeit: A Brief Biography
June 20 Holy Sites: "Finding Your Soulmate Day" -- Hilula (the 'Celebration Day') of Rabbi Yonatan Ben Uziel [26 Sivan /2022:June 25 -- in The Valley of Love -- Amuka
May 16

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "The Lag B'Omer Departure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai" (Lag b'Omer)

May 9

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Passover Again -- Far Out, Man!" (Pesach Sheini / "Second Passover") Sunday, May 15

Apr. 25

Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Getting Paid on Time" (Kedoshim - Ari)

Apr. 11 Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Matza & Midnight" (Pesach Seder)
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)
Nov. 15 "A Tale of Two Stories" (Yud-Tes Kislev)
Aug. 30 Chasidut/Kabbalah: "What is a Soul" (ROSH HASHANA)
Aug. 9 Current Events: "Teenage Jewish Boy Saves Elderly Jewish Woman's Life"
July 19 Chasidut/Kabbalah: "Tu b'Av and the Full Moon" (15th Av)
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.
May 11

THE Lag b'Omer Story from R. Yerachmiel Tilles -- the most miraculous, yet the most authenticated. Audio version too! (Lag b'Omer)
Mar. 23, 2020 Current Events: "A Meditation for CCPVirus-Induced Isolation and Lockdowns"
Feb. 3 Jews and Sports: "Lessons from the Super Bowl"
April 15 Prayer: "Lecha Dodi": Original rhyming translation and commentary.
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
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: Your Personal Torah Code (updates, upgrades and new offers)
  Life at Ascent: Seminar Reviews (updated)
  Life at Ascent: SUMMER DAILY Schedule (REVISED!)
  Life at Ascent: Library/Media Center (updated)
  Life at Ascent: 30th annual Safed Klezmer Festival (Ascent schedule w' Festival schedule) August 22-24. 2017
  Life at Ascent: What is Ascent? (updated)
  Life at Ascent: Staff Profiles (updated)
  Life at Ascent: Contact us (updated)
  Life at Ascent: Ulpan (updated)
  Ascent Studies: Links page (updated)
  Prayer & Meditation : Annual Blessing on Blossoming Fruit Trees (month of Nisan)
  Pirkei Avot: Introductory & Concluding verses -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics
  Meditation: A Woman's Shabbat Candlelighting Meditation
  Ascent Studies: Free E-subscriptions (updated)
  Ascent Studies: Surf & Learn -- Just like from our Visitor's Lounge here in Tsfat
  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 - Feb. 3-4
  Farbrengen with BIG MO in L.A. (more information)
  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: Concluding verse -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics
  Pirkei Avot: Introductory verse -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics
  Pirkei Avot: Chapter 1 -- Mystical Insights into Rabbinical Ethics
 
Kabbalah: "The Lag B'Omer Departure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai" (Lag B'Omer)
 
Kabbalah: "Deeds of Kindness with Mystical Intentions" (Ramak)
  Chasidut/Kabbalah: "For a Full Month" (KiTeitze, Elul - Ohr HaChayim)
 

Sages of Safed: "Yahrzeit of the Ari" (Hei [5th] Av -- August 5-6)
 
Kabbalah: Kitvei Arizal - the Writings of the Holy Ari
  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 from R. Yerachmiel Tilles -- Year #1, Story #125 / Feb. 1999 (Shabbat Shekalim)
  Chassidic/Kabbalah Stories from R. Yerachmiel Tilles -- Story #538 (Shabbat Zachor 5768/2008)
 

BONUS STORY from R. Yerachmiel Tilles for Chai (18) ELUL, birthday of both the Baal Shem Tov & Rabbi Shneur Zalman: "Mirror Mirror on the Wall"
  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]
   

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