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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.



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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.)

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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"The Price for Blowing the Shofar in Shul"

“My dear husband, others in your situation travel to England, and some even as far as America, and they return with substantial sums. Yet for you, going from Meah She’arim to nearby Zichron Moshe is as though you were traveling to the end of the world!”

Why this week? Rosh Hashanah falls in Shabbat and Sunday

LAST week's Story

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"Scrolls and Poles"

That evening, the [first] Zutchka Rebbe began a cheshbon nefesh – a spiritual reckoning. Suddenly, he rose from his bed. He had figured out why this terrible thing had happened to him! He put on his clothes and slipped out.

Why This Week? The 2nd parasha of the double reading, Vayeilech, describes how the very first Torah scroll ever was handled and protected.

NEXT week's Story

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