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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.



The Ascent Story Weekly Mailing list is now in its 27th year! It is updated on this site by Tuesday and emailed by Wednesday (including a printable PDF option).
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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
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"Holy Murderers and a Crazed Jew"

He had been a normal, sensible religious Jew with a wife and family until one day he suddenly lost his mind and began screaming and thrashing about for no apparent reason.

Why This Week? The 24th of the Jewish month of Tevet [2026: Tuesday, Jan. 13] is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Shneur-Zalman, founder and first Rebbe of Chabad Chasidut.

LAST week's Story

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"Mystic Teachings and a Suggestion From Heaven"

"When you called, I was still under the influence of the dream. My turbulent thoughts held me captive and I could not pick up the phone. I half dreamt and half dozed."

Why This Week? We study the first parasha-section of the second book of the Torah, Both are called Shmos in the original Hebrew, which means "Names."

NEXT week's Story

1467

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