Stories; Storytelling

In the mid-1970s, Rabbi Gershon Burkis was a member of the Religious Council in the city of Lod, Israel. With a number of children in their schools reaching the age for reading books, he decided to do something about the dearth of quality Jewish education...

Chabad.org has made classic Jewish and Chassidic stories more accessible than ever with two exciting updates.

Heartbroken and spent from his efforts, Reb Berel slumped to the ground in abject misery.

the factory burned down and I was left with no income. My poor wife lay ill in bed, too weak to go out. When there was not a coin left in the house, we decided to return to my father in Dvinsk.

“So make it yellow,” replied Kusheh. And that is exactly what he did.

Most of what we know about the life of the Ba'al Shem Tov comes from the stories transmitted by his circle of disciples and their students. What kind of religious value do we ascribe to stories of the righteous in Judaism? What is the function of stories ...

A decade after their first meeting, the correspondence between R. Yosef Yitzchak and R. Menachem Mendel reveals the extent to which their relationship had developed.

A story from the Midrash.