“… while Karim Khan and his men sat down to drink, the city of Basra was in despair.” Basra is the second largest city in Iraq (next to Baghdad). Its Jewish settlement dates back over a thousand years. Nearly two hundred years ago, before the great exodus of Jews from […]
Weekly Chasidic Story
“Meilech, why do you cry?” asked Reb Zusha. Reb Elimelech pointed to the smelly pail in the corner of their prison cell … The two saintly brothers, Rebbe Zusha and Rebbe Elimelech, who lived in 18th century Poland, wandered for years disguised as beggars, seeking to refine their characters and […]
The Holy Slop Bucket
“From then on, nobody sits on that chair…” One day in 5717 (1957), Rabbi Michil Vishetsky entered a shul in the Bronx (he was making the rounds of the synagogues to raise money for Ezrat Achim, an American organization which sent food packages to Jews in Russia). The only person […]