The Blessing of the Hafetz Hayyim
Several months ago a festive gathering was held at the Palm Tree nursing home in Boro Park. The occasion was the celebration of the hundredth birthday of one of the […]
Stories about Yitzhak Ben Zvi, the Second President of Israel
The late Rabbi Shmuel HaKohen Weingarten was a well known rabbinic scholar and author who wrote in four languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian and German. Brought up in Hungary, where he […]
Several Versions of a Story
R. Paysach J. Krohn relates in his Around the Maggid’s Table the following story, which he heard from R. Yissachar Frand of Baltimore. Two people had a violent argument about […]
Shivchei Ha’ari
Shivchei Ha’ari is a well known book containing legends and stories regarding the life and activities of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the great mysticist of sixteenth century Safed. Born in Jerusalem, Luria spent […]
Thanks to the Kaddish
The fast of the tenth of Tevet which occurs these days has been declared by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as a day of reciting the Kaddish in memory of […]
A Story About the Maharal of Prague
Meorot HaDaf HaYomi is a weekly newsletter devoted to the Daf Yomi. The newsletter, which is published in Bnei Brak, features Halachic problems and decisions relating to he Dappim studied by […]
The Story of a Good Vort
Several years ago, on the occasion of Purim, I cited in this column a story from Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn’s , The Maggid Speaks, that is often related by Rabbi […]
Two Rabbis Yehezkel, The ‘Gilgul’ of a story
It is told of Rabbi Yehezkel Landau, Prague’s famous rabbi, the 200th anniversary of whose death was observed several months ago,that on the High Holidays he acted as Sheliach Tzibur. […]
A Pesach Story Told About Five Rabbis
Mordechai Lipson relates in his Midor Dor (vol. 3, p. 117, no. 2086) the following about Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveichik of Brisk: A few days before Passover a man called […]