In the days of yore, there were maggidim who traveled from village to village, imparting words of wisdom and rebuke through interesting stories and parables. These maggidim were blessed with the ability to fire the souls of their audience, to awaken the blatant spark lying dormant in the hearts of

The Rizhiner Rebbe was a great gaon and tzaddik, and he was from the leaders of all Chassidic rebbes in his time. He had a warm, accepting personality, one that drew others like a magnet. Jews from all walks of life were attracted by his kindness and caring, and he

Reb Zemira lived in the times of the Tenaim, a few generations before the Zohar Hakadosh. In those days, donkeys were a common mode of transportation, used for getting from one destination to the next. Reb Zemira, too, owned a donkey, which he rode whenever he needed to travel. On

The holy Bach was a very powerful rav who led his community with wisdom and dedication. He did not get scared off by the wealthy or influential activists in the community who tried using him to promote their own agendas, and instead remained true to his convictions. While he was

Rav Yosef Shaul Nathanson was a brilliant gaon and a giant in Torah. He was also a tremendous masmid who learned around the clock, eating and sleeping just enough to keep him going. When he was a young man of marriageable age, there was no dearth of shidduch offers that

The holy Shaagas Aryeh had a shamash who served him devotedly for many years. However, he was an elderly man, and soon the time came for him to depart from the world. When the Shaagas Aryeh was notified that his faithful shamash was on his deathbed, he immediately went to

Benny was finishing up his final year of high school, and the exciting occasion of his upcoming graduation was nearing. A Jewish American teenager in a yeshiva day school, he was looking forward to the graduation present that his parents would surely grant him. Many of his friends were getting

The holy Rav Chaim ben Atar, famously known as the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh, was born in the city of Sali, Morocco in the year 5454 (1694 CE). He was a tremendous tzaddik and talmid chacham who authored commentaries on Chumash, Gemara, and Shulchan Aruch. He also possessed ruach hakodesh. The

This story is from the Gemara in Gittin, daf 68a When Shlomo Hamelech wanted to build the Bais Hamikdash, he ran into a problem. The Halacha is that the stones used to build the Bais Hamikdash may not be cut using a metal blade, but it was impossible to build

Rav Chatzel Miletzky (later of Yerushalayim) was sixteen years old when war tore through Europe in a wave of devastation, destruction, and death. Young Chaikel skirted danger and looked fear in the eye, yet he never allowed the fear of human threat overcome his fear of Heaven. Following are three