Today’s chapter is the story of Hannah and her Seven Sons. This is an incredibly sad story associated with Chanukah. (In fact, I could not keep entirely from crying at the end.) With that in mind I have also included a happier Chanukah story that I recorded last year of Herschel and the [...]

Today we continue the daily story from an adaptation of Aggadot Yehuda Ha Makkabi, which tells the history leading up to Chanukah, as well as the story of the Miracle of Chanukah. Today’s story is about the Antiochus’s first actions to attempt to crush out Judaism.

This story comes from Legends of Judah The Maccabeeby S. [...]

This week we have something a little different. In honor of Chanukah we will be reading a daily story from an adaptation of Aggadot Yehuda Ha Makkabi, which tells the history leading up to Chanukah, as well as the story of the Miracle of Chanukah. Today’s story is about the rise of Antiochus Epiphanes.

This story [...]

This week we hear the story of a student of the Baal Shem Tov and the directive that the student was given to follow after the Baal Shem Tov’s death.

This story comes from Volume 3 of Extraordinary Chassidic Tales, an unfortunately out of print series of books.