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1278BeshtRayatzSefertorah

Выпуск: 1278BeshtRayatzSefertorah. Темы: kashrut, family_education. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. However, because he sat every day in the shul, davvening (praying) and learning Torah, and stemmed from the family of those that had served the Baal Shem Tov, he was bestowed with the honorary title, "Shamash of the Baal Shem Tov's shul". The elders of the shul, headed by Reb Tuvia Leib, were greatly pained by the situation for they had a tradition that as long as the shul stood, the city would have peace and if the building were to fall, chas veshalom (‘Heaven forbid’), the city would be destroyed. They deliberated and finally decided that once in a while they would take out the “Miraculous Sefer Torah” (parchment Torah scroll) of the Baal Shem Tov and with the donations of those who would receive aliyot (called to the table of the reading of the Torah, to bless) they would be able to repair and renovate the shul. When my father entered the shul, Reb Tuvia Leib was speaking about the great kedusha (holiness) of the Sefer Torah and how many of the tzadikim of the previous generation had made the journey to Mezibuz specifically to get an aliyah on this Sefer Torah and kiss the cloth of the Baal Shem Tov that lay on the bima (raised platform). The Baal Shem Tov told them that he would not be able to help them, only they could help themselves.1 The Baal Shem Tov said: "We say every day in the Amidah (‘Standing’) prayer 'May the service of Your people Israel always find favor.' This means: always the service of your people Israel can change His will to weaken and nullify a decree. And the service that constantly stands before G-d to make a good 1 [In Sefer HaShichot if adds, "the towns' people responded to the Baal Shem Tov's refusal, "You help everyone who comes to you, and yet your own townsmen you can't help!" to which he said that only they could help themselves.] will is the Letters of Torah. This can be in two ways: saying the words of Torah and Tehilim (psalms), or through writing a Sefer Torah in which everyone takes part." When the town's people heard what the Baal Shem Tov said, they immediately decided to write a communal Sefer Torah, in which everyone from the community take part. However, this is on condition that tomorrow, Monday, there will be 1) a minyan (

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Yerachmiel Tilles Story

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17 февраля 2026 г.

Темы: kashrut, family_education