Enlight Light Once upon a time, a delegation of elders from a distant city came to the Baal Shem Tov on urgent business. After listening to their complaint, he opened the Torah lying on the table in front of him. H... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Secret tzaddik Many great rabbis were descendants of other great rabbis. One day Mordechai HaCohen was asked to talk about his grandfather, Rabbi Shalom, about whom no one remembered anything. He said: “Truly, he wa... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight You are what you think about Hasidim have a custom of gathering with their rebbe on Shabbos to eat together, drink vodka, sing nigunim (chants without words) and talk about the Torah. Once on Shabbos, so many students came to Rab... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Successor The Baal Shem Tov did not appoint a successor for himself. Instead, he told his Hasidim to look for a teacher outside. - But how do we recognize him? - asked the students. “Ask everyone the same quest... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Idle chatter One person read somewhere that anyone who abstains from idle talk for forty days will gain divine insight. Considering that this was a very short path to God, he set to work with great diligence. So, ... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight The child and the thief Rebbe Zusya from Anipol went to see his rebbe-mentor, Dov Ber, Maggid from Mezhirich. “I heard, rabbi,” said Zusya, “that there are certain Ten Principles of Worship, but I don’t know about them.” So ... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Dancing Rabbi The Jews of one small Russian town were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the rabbi. His arrival was supposed to be an event of great importance for them, so they spent a lot of time composing the quest... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Like a king, like a beggar One day, Rebbe Israel from Ruzhin listened to a certain Hasid who extolled the virtues of his teacher, Rebbe Moshe Tzvi from Savran. “Rebbe Moshe is a man of extraordinary modesty,” said the Hasid. - ... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Sermon by Rebbe Israel Rebbe Yisrael, the Maggid (preacher) of Koznitsa, visited Apta annually. During one of these visits, the elders asked the rebbe to give a sermon in the shul (synagogue) during the celebration of Shabb... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Dance! There lived one holy man in the world, master of chesed Rebbe Naftali from Ropshitz. One evening, while dancing with his students, the old rebbe suddenly raised his hands to the sky, and his face was ... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight Rules of the game One day, Rebbe Nachum of Stefansti found two students playing Chinese checkers at a beis midrash (religious school). It was the night of Chanukah, but instead of studying the Torah, they sat bending o... Hasidic Parables Parables
Enlight What opens the gates One day Besht asked one of the older students, Wolf Kitsis, to blow a shofar (ram's horn) on Rosh Hashanah. And to make it easier for him to concentrate while performing this ritual, Besht advised him... Hasidic Parables Parables
