In Memory of Lori Gilbert-Kaye

In Memory of Lori Gilbert-Kaye Le-‘Ilui Nishmat Leah bat Tsiporah u-Reuven, hy”d   In the summer of 2010, I visited my dear cousins Jordan and Debbie Alpert in their home in Poway, a suburb of San Diego, California. There, I encountered a most unusual woman. She had come to the house to drop off a […]

Dream Dialog Between the Malakh & Reb Zalman

Dream Dialog between the Malakh and Reb Zalman by Bezalel Naor   Dramatis Personae The Malakh (Angel)—Rabbi Hayyim Avraham Dov Baer Hakohen Levine (b. Ilya, Belarus, c. 1860—d. Bronx, New York, 1938). Founder of a small Hasidic sect known as Malakhim (Angels) which is characterized by extreme adherence to Old World Hasidism. According to the […]

Yom Kippur – Avodat HaLevi

“BE-ZOT YAVO AHARON EL HA-KODESH” “WITH THIS SHALL AARON ENTER INTO THE HOLY PLACE” (LEVITICUS 16:3) A DISCOURSE OF THE STAROSELYER REBBE Rabbi Aharon Halevi Horowitz of Staroselye (1766-1828), was the eminent disciple of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Habad Hasidism. Rabbi Aharon studied under the master for thirty years. The Alter Rebbe […]