Welcome back to Ascent’s newsletter for the month of Av (also known as Menachem Av – the Month of Consolation). A highlight in Av is the 15th of the month – known as Tu B’Av. This date, when the moon is full, is a massive boost after the descent into […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
0“… his powers are much greater than mine.” An original translation by R. Yerachmiel Tilles Yigal and his wife Nechama, both of whom had grown up on irreligous left-wing kibbutzes, decided to leave Israel and try life in the United States. They settled in Minnesota with their two children, Eitan […]
The Right Address – by Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles
Ascent was started in 1984 by three couples – myself and my wife Chaya Bracha, Yerachmiel and Shulamit Tilles, and Moshe and Yehudis Wisnefsky. Moshe and Yehudis left after the first year to start a new life and shlichut (outreach work) in Jerusalem. Yerachmiel and I continued, but our real […]