InThe Maggid of Melbourne: Hasidic Lore Series
The Tisch: Omer Obsession
The following article was published on April 13, 2020. Many people obsess over counting the Omer. “Did you count yet?” “What was last night?” “Don’t…
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InThe Maggid of Melbourne: Hasidic Lore Series
Making Oneself Pious
Polemic tracts against the Hasidim refer to adherents of the nascent movement as mit’hasdim. The term is based on the Hebrew root het samekh dalet.…
Is prozbul enough?
One aspect of Shemittah – the biblically mandated sabbatical year – is a system of debt relief whereby creditors release debtors from loans that are…
InThe Maggid of Melbourne: Hasidic Lore Series
The Wedding that Linked the Belz, Vizhnitzer Hassidim Together
In 1964, a match was arranged between 18-year-old Surah’le Hager (b. 1946) and 16-year-old Yisachar Dov Rokach (b. 1948). At the time, Surah’le was the…