The Chassidic Story Project with Barak Hullman - A Chassidic Story Every Week

This week I have two stories for you, the first is about an innkeeper who can't pay the rent and finds the Apta Rav asking him for help and the second about Rabbi Hendel Lieberman, a Chassidic artist and Chassid of the Lubavitcher Rebbe who discovers how far the Rebbe's holy vision goes. If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/ba...

This week I have three stories for you, the first is about a young Polish Jewish girl whose parents buy her a ticket to move to America in the early 1900s and her father begs her to keep Shabbos, the second about the brother in law of the Baal Shem Tov, Reb Gershon Kitover who wants to see a hidden Tzadik and the last about Rabbi Moshe Rosen asking the Lubavitcher Rebbe to let him retire at 70. If...

This week I have two stories for you, the first is about the Riminover Rebbe's father having an opportunity to pull himself and his family out of poverty and the second about a father, daughter and son-in-law that come to Belzer Rebbe for a blessing, but don't hear what he's saying. If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhu...

This week I have two stories for you, the first is when Herschel the Miser passed away no one cared, but when Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev insisted that everyone attend they demanded to know why, the second about a Belzer chassid who slandered Chabad and the Lubavitcher Rebbe for putting tefillin on Jews that were not worthy. If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment...

This week I have one long story of the Baal Shem Tov for you. Reb Nosson is a holy Jew who learns Torah all day is supported by his wife, Naomi. But he's tested by Heaven and it takes him very far. If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support! Also available at https://soundclou...

This week I have two stories for you, the first about the students of the Vilna Gaon who tried to fight the Enlightenment movement and the second about a woman's total faith in the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe. If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support! Also available at https:...

This week I have three new stories for you, the first about a simple Jew that is sent to buy an etrog for his entire community and ends up doing another mitzvah instead, the second about the sukkah of Reb Mordechai of Nadvorna and the third about the dancing of the chassidim of the Baal Shem Tov on Simchat Torah and then at the end I'll add all of the stories from previous years about Sukkot. If y...

This week I have two new stories for Yom Kippur, the first about singing Kol Nidre in Siberia and the second about a drunk water carrier in the shul of the Seerer of Lublin on Yom Kippur night, then stories from previous years. Gmar chatima tova to all of my sweetest listeners! If you would like to buy equipment for our IDF soldiers, the link to Notes of Strength is at http://bit.ly/csp-unit-5030-...

This week I have a new story for Rosh Hashana and then stories from previous years. Shana tova u'mtuka to all of my sweetest listeners! If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support! Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/melting-a-heart-of-stone-rosh-hashana-stori...

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a simple tailor that goes to the Apter Rov asking for a blessing for parnasa (livelihood) and gets stuck in a dilemma. The second is about the Rebbe of Toldos Aharon on vacation in Europe and finds himself without a minyan for Rosh Chodesh Elul. Plus a bonus story from the archives at the end. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, pleas...

This week I have two stories for you for Chai Elul, the 18th of Elul which is the birthdays of both the Baal Shem Tov in 1698 and the Alter Rebbe in 1745. The first story is about a father with eighteen sons. He sends they off and asks them to come back five years later to share what Torah ideas they learned and the second about the Alter Rebbe putting out a fire and the miracle story that followe...

This week I have three stories for you, the first is about a simple farmer that comes to the Alter Rebbe before Rosh Hashana and has no idea what a Rebbe is or does, the second about the power of praying at the time of lighting the candles for Shabbos and the third a story about Reb Meir Refaels and how he became a chassid of the Alter Rebbe. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take...

This week I have two stories for you, the first about a Torah scholar and his wife running out of food and money and what happens after the husband finds a silver coin and the second about a Jew that gets involved in Native American culture in the 1970s and eventually finds his way to Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. h...

This week I have one long story for you about a wealthy miser that goes on a very long spiritual journey. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support! Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/the-man-in-white-and-smelly-fish. To become a part of this project or spo...

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a wealthy Jew who doesn't believe in tzadikim or Rebbes, but his wife goes to Reb Meirl of Premishlan for a blessing for children and the second a story about Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz and he power of prayer If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank...

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a wealthy Jew who disagrees with his rebbe and goes to find another that will see things like him and the second about a great rabbi in Jerusalem disagreeing with Rabbi Shmuel of Zichlin. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate you...

This week I have three stories for you the first about a young Yisrael Abergel who comes to a hidden Tzadik in Yafo that tells him he can speak with souls that have been reincarnated into animals, the second about a miser who won't help the Jews in the Land of Israel and the third about a girl near Melbourne who wants to convert to Judaism. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a...

This week I have two stories for you the first about a wealthy Jew that comes to the Baal Shem Tov to ask for a blessing for a child, but it comes with a condition that the child not touch the ground until he's 4 years old and the second about the great rabbi and scholar, Rabbi Shmuel Shtrashun, the Rashash who made a grave mistake and the effects of that mistake. If you're enjoying these Chasidic...

This week I have two stories for you the first about a chassid who made a business deal that went really wrong and came to his rebbe, Reb Dovid Tzvi of Neushtadt for advice and the second about a chassid of the Sadigora Rebbe who ended up going to the Lubavitcher Rebbe for advice on a business deal. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://k...

This week I have two stories for you for Yud Beis and Yud Gimmel Tamuz, the festival of liberation of the Rebbe Rayatz, the first is about a chassid of the Rebbe Rayatz who is arrested by the NKVD secret police and goes to the Rebbe for advice and the second is about the hesitations of Rebbetzin Tzviyah Eliyahu about her husband becoming the chief Rabbi of Israel. If you're enjoying these Chasidic...

This week I have two stories for you for Gimmel Tamuz, the yahrzeit of the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, the first is about the miraculous birth of someone who never met the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the second about a promising yeshiva bocher who tried to lie to the Rebbe. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I d...

This week I have three stories for you, the first is about a simple chassid of the Shpoler Zayde who has his life saving stolen by a Russian solider and goes to the Tzadik for help, the second about an undercover unit in the IDF deciding to wear tzitziot and the third about Reb Mordechai Dov of Hornisteipl who needed to have surgery to remove a sore from his back. If you're enjoying these Chasidic...

This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wealthy Jew who comes to the Chasam Sofer for a loan and the second about the Rebbe Maharash before he was rebbe and a very insistent woman who wanted a blessing for children. If you're enjoying these Chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!...

This week I have two stories for you, the first is about a wedding dowry and the controversy that it creates and the second about a very insistent milkman who finds a bag of coins in the street. If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support! Also available at https://soundcloud.co...

This week I have two stories for you, the first is about how the Maggid of Mezritch came to find out if the Baal Shem Tov is truly holy or just does miracles and the second about a special chevruta of two Torah scholars and one of them having doubts about Hashem's existance. If you're enjoying these chasidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Tha...