Podcast of Aliyah: A Story from the Israel Folk Tale Archives
live footage, told by Peninnah Schram at the Mitzvah Stories book release...
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Visiting Reb Nachman's Grave in Uman
By: Rabbi Goldie MilgramFirst published in the Philadelphia Jewish Voice. This is the story of how over a decade ago, my teacher Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi sent me to the grave of Reb Nachman of...
View ArticleSample Story "A Father's Gift" from Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration...
A Father's Giftby Noa Baum Bilal grew up in Lahore, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. When he was a young boy there was a war between India and Pakistan, and...
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Sample Story: A Single Seed of a Pomegranate
from Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning A Single Seed of a Pomegranate, retold by Cherie Karo SchwartzKavannah (setting the intention):Upon the anointing by Moses of Aaron as high...
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Sample Story: Queen Esther’s Joy by Rabbi Naomi Steinberg
from Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, Reclaiming Judaism Press From Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning Honored by the National Jewish Book Awards! a story by Rabbi...
View ArticleSample Story: "The Escort" from Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and...
The Escort by Benji LeveneIn the summer of 1970, I was studying in a yeshiva in Jerusalem. My parents had come back to Israel after living in the States for thirty years. My father was serving as the...
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Sample Story: Light
from Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, Reclaiming Judaism Press Light by Yisroel BernathIt was the summer of 2001, and I was finding my seat on an Egged bus headed to Tzefat. To my...
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Rebbe on the Road, free e-book
By: Rabbi Goldie Milgram For many years Barry and I wrote spiritual travelogues, here they are compiled as an e-book for summer reading. Enjoy!Download File: rebbeontheroad-2.pdfRelated Content: A...
View ArticleMitzvah Stories Podcast - Can the Jewish People Get Along
VIEW HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkjzNWxzThoBarry Bub, MD reveals how Jews from very different parts of the spectrum of Jewish practice can, with thought and preparation, have meaningful...
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The Stranger at the Passover Table
by Barbara Solomon Josselsohn fromNew Mitzvah Stories for the Whole FamilyMost times a stranger is a person you don’t know. But sometimes a stranger is someone you thought you knew very well....
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Updated Passover Menu of Spiritual Practices
(c) 2018 Barry Bub By: Rabbi Goldie MilgramThe Passover seder is an opera of questions, a careful seder- order of Gestalt-like spiritual experiences, which, when undertaken with a richness of...
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Sample Story: The Half Blanket
The Half Blanket, Retold by Peninnah Schramfrom Peninnah Schram's The Hungry Clothes and Other Jewish Folktales. NY: Sterling Publishing, 2008.This is one of the best known teaching tales in world...
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The Instrument
first published in 2008 By: Rabbi Goldie MilgramThe snow storm stopped the life of the city almost completely. In those days we lived in walking distance of Philadelphia’s Academy of Music and often...
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