Once, when the Alter Rebbe was the ba'al koreh, he read a verse slightly incorrectly. Instead of reading 1775 he read 5775.  He did...

Wishing all my readers a Shana Tova...... and with great expectations and hopes that we will see Moshiach speedily in our days..... may all ...

1838-1933 [5598-5693] Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen Kagan is commonly known as the "Chafetz Chaim," the name of his famous wo...

In a few days it will be Rosh Hashanah 5775: what does the new year hold for us?  Moshiach?? Another amazing posting from Yaak :  click here...

Rav Refael Dovid Auerbach [the brother of Rav Shlomo Zalman] related that over 90 years ago his father, Rav Chaim Leib Auerbach, on...

It happened once in the time of the Rebbe Reb Elimelech that the government had a case against a certain Jew. The courts ruled, found him g...

A fascinating shiur from Rabbi Manis Friedman on the cycle of a soul: what happens to the soul after we die, and how a soul is born into t...

The beheaded US journalist Steven Sotloff fasted on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and prayed in the direction of Jerusalem while...