Below Ten Handbreadths: A Story for Chanukah
The holy tzaddik Rabbi David of Tolna, of blessed memory, had a custom of lighting the Chanukah candles with great intent. His Chanukah menorah was...
Category : Chanukah
Rectifying Greek Aesthetics
On Chanukah we commemorate the deliverance God gave us from the Seleucid Empire and its idolatrous Greek Hellenic culture. Over the centuries, the Jewish spirit...
Rebbe Chaim of Chernowitz: The Story that Saved
Rabbi Chaim Tirer, know eponymously by his work, Be’er Mayim Chaim, was one of the great figures of Chasidut and the disciple of Rabbi Yechiel...
Rabbi Yochanan Twersky of Tolna: Thanking God for Reaching this Last Moment
Rabbi Yochanan Twersky of Tolna was born in 5666 (1906) to Rabbi David Mordechai Twersky. In his childhood, his father emigrated to the United States,...
Israel’s War Against the Greeks and the Philistines
Chanukah is the festival celebrating victory over the Greek kingdom. In our days, we anticipate victory in the war in "the land of the Philistines"...
Rabbi Chaim of Czernowitz: Impropriety and Fire
Rabbi Chaim Tyrer, known for his book, “Be’er Mayim Chayim,” was a giant of the Chasidic movement and the disciple of Rebbe Yechiel Michel of...
Tanya, Torah and Science: Part 2
Click here for Part 1 What blemish is caused by engaging in science in an unrectified manner? And how is the war of the Hasmoneans...
Sixth Candle: Chanukah and the Winter Solstice
Every year, the festival of Chanukah reminds us of the war of the Jewish people against the Greek kingdom, which represented an existential spiritual threat...
Abraham, Rebbe Zusha, the Lights of Chaos
Rabbi Meshulam Zusil of Anapoli, better known as Rebbe Zusha, was a senior student of the Maggid of Mezritch. Brother of the renowned Rebbe Elimelech...
