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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 5

October 4, 2008

Last week we read a story about the Rebbe Maharash, the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. This week we read an Erev Yom Kippur story about his wife Rebbetzin Rivkah, her son, and her grandson. This story is taken from Extraordinary Chassidic Tales, an unfortunately out of print series of books.

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 4

September 27, 2008

This week we are reading a story about the Rebbe Maharash, the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. Although he was known as the Baal Shemske Rebbe because so many miracles occurred when he was Rebbe this story shows the power of belief to cause a transformation. For those who are interested in more from the behind the [...]

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 3

September 20, 2008

This week’s story is a story about Rabbi Akiva and his wife Rachel. When Rachel met Rabbi Akiva, then a shepherd in her father’s employ, he was illiterate. But she saw wisdom in him and agreed to marry him if he would go to learn Torah…which of course first meant learning to read. The long [...]

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 2

September 13, 2008

This Thursday will be the 18th of the month Elul, which is the anniversary of the Baal Shem Tov’s birthday. In honor of this, this week I read two Baal Shem Tov stories from the book “Extrodinary Chassidic Tales”

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 1

September 6, 2008

At the last Denver Area Podcaster’s meetup Len Edgerly spoke on his Kindle Chronicles podcast and gave six lessons on podcasting. One of his points of advice was to start before you know what you want to podcast on, and when your subject finds you, you will already be ready. He also told a story [...]

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