More than any other rabbinic figure he is considered a sort of
Chasidic rebbe for Litvish ("Yeshivish," non-Chasidic) Jewry; multitudes come to receive his blessing, hear his advice, and ask him to pray for them and theirs.
Award-winning storyteller Susan Stone will share
Chasidic and folkloric tales from the Jewish tradition accompanied by Sophie Creutz on clarinet.
A better rendering of k'mokha, translated as "as yourself," is "that is what you are." In other words, "you shall love the stranger, because your love for the stranger is who you are." On this basis, we have the
Chasidic teaching that this love for the other human being--for the stranger--is the foundation of Torah (Toledot Yaakov Yosef, Korach 2).
The two in Yiddish Motifs not included in The Ghetto are
Chasidic Dance and For the Sin Which We Have Committed.
However, Steinsaltz notes that even though this story may suggest that Habad is more attuned to the emotional than the intellectual, the opposite is the case: "Other
Chasidic groups emphasize the experiential over the intellectual; for most, Chasidut is lived, not so much studied...
Much like the Iranian Jewish American writers, who at once both challenge and continue to perpetuate their exoticism for voyeurism, a recent trend is surfacing in the memoirs by former
Chasidic Jewish women.
Saunders's insistence on a Mozart minuet, he sings "'Der Rebbe Hat Geheison Froelich Sein," a
Chasidic ditty in Yiddish, translated as "The rabbi has commanded that we be merry" (Blumenfeld 110, 112).
Leiby Kletzky was an 8-year-old
Chasidic child from Brooklyn.
(60) The content of Graham's religion did not concern the magazine: with the exception of the single mention of receiving Christ, the article might as well have been describing the preaching tour of a Hindu Sanyassi,
Chasidic Rebbe, or Muslim Imam.
The Spinka Rebbe, head of a
Chasidic dynasty, is convicted of money laundering?