Jewish Hasidic Stories and Breslov History

Original recording date - July 2, 2020 Lots of interesting stories in today's episode starting from the Maharsha and a Church that was bothering the Jews to a musician who everyone thought was blind all the way to a Rabbi who was buried in priest's clothing. Enjoy!   (Shmuel Eidels (1555 – 1631) (Hebrew: שמואל אליעזר הלוי איידלס‎ Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels), was a renowned rabbi and Talmudi...

Original recording date - June 30, 2020 Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe was a Rabbi, Rosh yeshiva and posek. He is best known as author of Levush Malkhut, a ten-volume codification of Jewish law that particularly stressed the customs of the Jews of Eastern Europe. He is known as "the Levush" or "the Ba'al Halevushim".   In this episode we learn about the Levush and what happened to make him write...

Original Video recording date - June 28, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVGxoC6sU9w&t In this episode we continue to learn through the Breslov sefer Siach Sarfei Kodesh which is basically a collection of sayings, teachings, stories and other information about Breslov chassidus.

Watch this episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOvXrPeXHE In this video, we continue to read awesome Jewish stories in preparation for Purim.

Original video recording date - June 25, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkzW5osjJnk Joel ben Samuel Sirkis-Jaffe (Yiddish: יואל בן שמואל סירקיש-יפה; born 1561 - March 4, 1640) also known as the Bach - בית חדש) ב"ח)—an abbreviation of his magnum opus, Bayit Chadash—was a prominent Jewish posek and halakhist.  In today's episode we learn about how the Bach was able to save the Jews in t...

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kON5n4n3fNE Hey all and welcome back. In this podcast we read some amazing stories about Purim - Which Tzaddik did Mordechai appear to? What to eat on Purim night? What to learn before the Purim Seudah and more. Enjoy!  More info about these videos - https://bit.ly/2EX4OEF  Thank you for watching

Original video recording date June 23, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrQHmrvwG4 In this video we talk about three awesome Jewish stories about the Mikvah and how big holy tzaddikim did anything they can to dip in the holy waters and help people.  Intro music - Simplicity by Kabbalistic Village - http://bit.ly/2tIvMtY Thank you

Original recording date: June 18, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVIBOrYnlY In today's story we learn about the father of the Baal Shem Tov and how he was taken captive to a far away land, eventually rose up in power and made it back home.  I forgot to mention in the recording that on the way back home, Eliyahu HaNavi appeared to him and said that since he did not sleep with the woma...

Original recording date - June 16, 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTUR-lAYm0 In today's episode we hear a story from Rav Shmuel Horowitz about A Snake Diviner who used forbidden magic and a short story about Shalom Bayis and keeping the peace in one's home with the Apta Rav during Pesach. Intro song - Fighting the Serpent by Kabbalistic Village: https://bit.ly/3e7sJ0B

Original video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTiMsRGb-HY Welcome back to another Hasidic reading session. Today it's only one story and it's the wild story about how and when Rebbe Nachman was conceived by his parents

Original video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShbVu0PHqs Hello and welcome back to another story telling session from the holy city of Tzfat. In today's video, we learn a little about the holy Tzaddik of Villednik aka Rav Yisroel Dov of Vilednik aka The Villedniker. We also hear a story about him and Rav Mordechai of Chernobyl. Lastly, we learn about Rav Liber Hagadol, one of the founders of t...

In this podcast we learn about why Rebbe Nachman's older brother is called Rav Yisroel the dead and I also talk about a short story with the Belzer Rebbe on the night of Pesach. Enjoy!

Originally recorded June 2, 2020. Today's story has to do with the Bnei Moshe who lived on the other side of the river and all of that cool stuff. We also discuss a little bit of Breslov history and the machlokes between Rav Noson and The Savraner Rebbe. Thank you for listening!

Hi all. My name is Menachem Engel. I am an Orthodox Hasidic Jew living in Tzfat, Israel. Around May of last year (2020) I started to make videos on Youtube where I just read cool and interesting Jewish Chassidic stories..and now I am starting to upload them as Podcasts for people to listen to. During the summer I started reading through a book called Siach Sarfei Kodesh which is oral traditions in...