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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.
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Michael Tilles" )
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1428 |
"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
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LAST week's Story
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1427 |
"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.]
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