Showing posts with label Baal Shem Tov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baal Shem Tov. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Travel with us or send your Kvitel to the Ba'al Shem Tov


We are planning on trying to organize a trip together with the Clevelander Rebbe Shlit"a on Shavous to the Holy Baal Shem Tov in Mezibuz on his yarzeit.


If you would like to join us please email me or call me at 054-842-4725 or 02-992-1218 in the USA voip 516-320-6022.
If you would like to send us your kvitel a note with requests for health blessings and parnassa etc. with your name and mother's name and details together with your tax deductible contrbution mail it to:
Mosdos Cleveland 11 Har Sinai St Ra'anana Israel

Thursday, November 8, 2007

To Be A Rebbe - Power of a story

A group of chassidim once came to R. Yisrael of Ruzhin, complaining of a drought that was jeopardizing their crops and their livestock. R. Yisrael led them through shaded paths in the nearby forest until he came upon a particular tree. He motioned to the chassidim to sit and said:

“When there was a drought in the time of the Baal Shem Tov, he would bring his chassidim to this tree, sing a melody, share a teaching, and rain would come.

“A generation later, when there was a drought, my grandfather the Maggid of Mezritch would also bring his followers to this tree. He would tell them this story of the Baal Shem Tov and say, ‘Although I no longer remember the teaching, this is the melody the Baal Shem would sing.’ And after he sang the melody, rain came down.

“As for me,” R. Yisrael concluded, “I know neither the melody nor the teaching. But I do know the story. May relating the story bring rain.”

Reb Yisrael and his chassidim had barely emerged from the forest before the first thunderbursts were heard.

(http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/78664/jewish/Chapter-6-To-Be-A-Rebbe.htm)