The Chassidic Story Project with Barak Hullman - A Chassidic Story Every Week

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, the founder of the Telz Yeshivah, who traveled to London on what appeared to be a fundraising mission. The second is about Michel Weiss, an assimilated French politician who encountered a Chabad mitzvah tank on a Manhattan street corner. The third is about a letter that ended up in unexpected hands.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/not-by-chance

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have four stories for you. The first is about a young chassid who abandons his wagon in a forest to spend Shavuos with the Alter Rebbe. The second is about a woman who walks into Rabbi Moshe Feller's Chabad house wanting to convert — and takes Judaism more seriously than the Jewish man she came with. The third is about Miri Gabay, who visited Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach after ten years of marriage with no children. And lastly, Reb Baruch of Mezhibuzh, the Baal Shem Tov's grandson, who made two trips to his grandfather's grave — and what he asked for each time.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/why-arent-we-screaming

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about an Israeli Air Force officer who had a private audience with the Lubavitcher Rebbe and only understood what happened fifteen years later. The second is about one of the Alter Rebbe's closest disciples and what true humility looks like. The third is about Rav Yehuda Amital, a sick cow, and what Reb Shlomo Carlebach once heard in a honking horn on a Friday night in Manhattan.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/im-jewish-and-i-dont-keep-shabbos

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about a young scholar living in the court of the Kotzker Rebbe, and a question his father-in-law asked that took him forty years to understand. The second is about the Ohev Yisrael of Apta and what happened to him on a journey to Warsaw that nobody who honored him could have predicted. The third is about a man who was absolutely certain that Eliyahu HaNavi and Moshiach were living in his city, and what Reb Simcha Bunem of Pshis'cha said when he came to tell him the news.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/you-call-that-learning

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have four stories for you. The first is about Rabbi Tovi Vahava, a Chabad chassid in Bat Yam, who receives an unexpected instruction on the Shabbos before Lag B'Omer. The other three are about the holy Ari — Rabbi Yitzchak Luria — and three moments in Tzfat and Meron that reveal how close the redemption always is, and who among us is truly not as simple as they appear.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/not-as-simple-as-he-appears

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have two stories for you. The first is a Baal Shem Tov story about a wealthy chassid sent on an impossible mission and the second about the Belzer Rov's Tish and the Rebbe Maharash.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/five-hundred-rubles-cast-upon-the-water

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have three stories for you. The first is a classic story by Reb Shlomo Carlebach about a simple Jew that was so holy, the second about our intentions when we prepare for Shabbos and the third about the Toldos Yaakov Yosef and a question on his sefer.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/lekovid-shabbos

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a Holocaust survivor who leaves the synagogue every Yom Tov during the blessing of the Priests and the reason he finally shares with his rabbi. The second is about a devoted chassid who travels to his Rebbe every Pesach, and the year he arrives to find himself left off the Rebbe's Seder list but learns that the Rebbe doesn't make mistakes.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/leaving-egypt-every-day

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about a Chabad rabbi in Ukraine who drives to a remote village to photograph gravestones and stumbles into something he never expected. The second is about Reb Moshe Leib of Sassov and a man at an inn who everyone has written off as lost. The third is about three boys at a bus stop late at night with no ride home.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/the-hidden-tzaddik-and-the-candle-of-truth

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about a melamed that searches for the Rebbe who he met in Heaven, the second about a ruble that the Tzemach Tzedek lent to a melamed that no one would take and the third an unexpected scene of drunk goyim in the presence of a Tzadik.

If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support!

Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/the-unwanted-ruble

To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter.

Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com.

Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas.

Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos

I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter