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THIS week's
3 featured
Stories (schedule posted
every WEDNESday) *
All times are for Israel time
zone
Week #277, SHOFTIM 5785--for Saturday
night, August 30, 2025
PRINTABLE--on
this site:
"In
the Month of ELUL, the Mouth Should Never be Empty" (s1446-697
words)
"When
I was young, I studied in the yeshiva of the tzadik, the Damesek Eliezer
of Vizhnitz. There was not much to eat in the yeshiva and that day I was
quite hungry."
Why this week? 1) The story emphasizes the specialness of the month
of Elul, which started on the first day of this week. 2) Monday night -
Tuesday, 2 Elul, is the yahrzeit of the Damesek Eliezer (which I did not
know until I did some last-minute research!)
.
ACHIVE
for the 47 previous print stories from this Jewish year, 5785 (starting
Sept. 3, 2024):
https://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=storylist5784
ARCHIVE for the 238 print stories from the *five* previous Jewish
years, 5780-5784:
http://www.ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=storyarch
ARCHIVE for the other 1361 print stories:
http://www.ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=storyarch
AUDIO #224
"TENT OF ABRAHAM IN THE TOWER OF LIGHT" (s518-8:02)
Saturday night 9:15 - WhatsApp or Email
"Finally, a day off. The word was that our brigade of 600 would be
staying in Migdal HaEmek, at a yeshiva complex. What a sick joke! Was someone
there going to tell us to wrap tefillin and pray, the one known as 'the
Disco Rabbi'?"
Why
this week? The Torah reading discusses in detail the rules and procedures
for drafting citizens into the army.
VIDEO #209:
"BEGINNER'S LUCK " (s276-6:34 min)
Saturday night 9:45 - WhatsApp or Email or YouTube
(from "Saturday Night, Full Moon", story #12)
Why was
it that the obvious decision Rabbi Levi Yitzchak would have to issue
in his first Rabbinical Court case after moving to Berdichev would
make him an object of derision in his new city?
Why this week? The Torah reading opens with the command that every
large Jewish community must have a qualified rabbinical court.
Also,
The 208 previous videos are available
on my YouTube
channel .https://www.youtube.com/user/ytilles3/videos
Don’t forget to click “LIKE” on each one you enjoy! You can
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