Stories Flashcards
Doing what H’ wants even when its against what looks right
In Vilna (Lithuania) in 1848, a cholera epidemic broke out and doctors advised everyone to eat on Yom Kippur, since the long fast would increase the risk of contracting this life-threatening disease.
The great Rabbi Yisrael Salanter issued a public proclamation that all Jews in Vilna should eat on Yom Kippur. But in their great respect for the holy day, many people continued to fast. So at the end of the morning service, Rabbi Salanter went up to the pulpit of Vilna’s Great Synagogue of Vilna, took out some wine and cake, recited the brachot, and ate in front of the entire congregation. By seeing the most pious figure in Vilna eating on Yom Kippur, this freed the others from their inhibitions about doing so.26
(yerushalmi pea)-r’ yochanan ,r’lakish going to chamei tveria tell beggar will give him later come back he’s dead they say ‘‘we didnt merit to care for him when he was alive we’ll take care of him in death and they begin funeral preparation when they start the tahara they find gold coins in his pocket not only was he wealthy he was deranged and they werent liable for his death
message :when we do whats infront of us now and dont let past experiances get in the way we might see we were right ,at first read the story we feel they achzar no sensitivity but they acted now we have to ask ourselves what can we do now
imagine we could date our wives relate to our family members as if this is the first time -we might find out thats there true self
story of sister fighting brother on kindertransport vows never leave a conversation that she’ll later on regret
radvaz -1 day from jail -now
grshz-megilla day/night day folows the megila say night 1st opportunity ‘‘mitzva haba leyadcha al tachmitzenu ‘’
reb zev wolf kitzes saves grandaughter
•r’jacobson 3am nothing to send cuts pastes together a story
•Baal shems Baal tokeah wolf kitzes preps but forgets kavanos baalshem tells him best blowing Lev nishbar no ego naked raw
•r’jacobson teaching at Sufi(ayatollah Sufi kabbala of Islam) class all Jews
woman was in dark place UNC died boyfriend broke up got the article given back her soul
signs her name kitzes P’s bobba said if ever in trouble connect to your grandfather
