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

A New Kind of Healing

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a brilliant young doctor who abandoned his Jewish roots for the royal courts of Europe. The second is about the T

The Blank Check

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about a wealthy timber merchant who turns away a freezing stranger — and the dream that follows. The second is about

Wandering in the Ninth Arrondissement

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a Jew who left his faith — until one night, at a drinking party, he overheard something that changed everything.

The Rebbe's Work Tools

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about a mother whose family goes through an unimaginable accident, and years later, a dream her son has the night bef

Just An Ordinary Jew

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about a mother and daughter who each wondered, in their own way, whether the Lubavitcher Rebbe truly recognized them.

Eighteen Rubles

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about Reb Motele of Tchernobyl and the richest miser in a village — a man who would do anything to avoid giving tzedaka

Saved by a Pendant

This week I have three stories for you. The first is a story Reb Shlomo heard from the Sadigerer Rebbe on a Friday night in New York — about the Jewish community in Spain

Far Beyond Their Means

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a Jewish innkeeper in Poland whose world falls apart when a fanatical priest turns the whole village against him

Kinderlach, Gedenkt (Children, Remember)

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about a chance encounter on the streets of Tel Aviv with a survivor who learned in the yeshiva of the holy Rabbi of P

We Are Not Helpless

This week I have one long story for you. It's about Reb Adam Baal Shem of Ropshitz — one of the most powerful hidden masters of the generation before the Baal Shem Tov —

Smoking on Shabbos

This week I have three stories for you for Gimel Tamuz, the yahrtzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The first is about an unexpected encounter between Rabbi Tuvia Bolton and

No One Knows What Tomorrow May Bring

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about Reb Menachem Mendel of Kosov, who stops a wealthy traveler on the road and asks him for money — not for himself

The One Thing I Can Still Give

This week I have three stories for you. The first is about Moishe Dovid, a simple Jew who saves five hundred rubles over years of sacrifice and arrives at the door of the

Not By Chance

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 fundrai

Why Aren't We Screaming? Shavuot Stories

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

I'm Jewish and I Don't Keep Shabbos

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 hap

You Call That Learning?

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

Not As Simple As He Appears (Lag Baomer Stories)

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

The Five Hundred Rubles Cast Upon the Water

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

Chatzkele Lekovid Shabbos

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