The post A Cloth to Remember appeared first on Story Tour. Jacob’s father was a tailor. When he was a young boy, Jacob would spend many days in his father’s shop, learning how to… Read More

The post Faith and Cruel Masters appeared first on Story Tour. L-rd, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens poured, the c… Read More

The post A Judgement Concerning Laundry appeared first on Story Tour. Let them wash their clothes. (Exodus 19:10) Once, two women came to the holy rabbi of the village with a dispute. Both… Read More

The post The Proper Match and the Right Question appeared first on Story Tour. The Proper Match and the Right Question Everyone respected the village rabbi, and his wisdom was known througho… Read More

The post A Tale of True Friendship appeared first on Story Tour. A Tale of True Friendship – A medieval story of true friendship, trust and faith share by two merchants who were willin… Read More

The post A Peddler’s Chanukah Latkes appeared first on Story Tour. Avraham was far from home as er carried his heavy bag filled with wares he sold. Avraham der Sukher was a peddler. He… Read More

The post A Tale of Two Sisters appeared first on Story Tour. Once, there were two sisters who married and lived in towns distant from each other. As often happens with siblings, one sister f… Read More

The post The Magic Pomegranate Seeds appeared first on Story Tour. The pomegranate eaten on Rosh Hashanah has great significance, The most outstanding aspect of the pomegranate is its seeds… Read More

The post A Dispute of Faith appeared first on Story Tour. They sat through the long cold winter night in the old book-lined room. The quiet shadows of grandparents and great-grandparents fil… Read More

The post Curing Tea appeared first on Story Tour. The grandson of a holy rabbi suddenly fell ill and was in danger of dying. The young man’s family members were all beside themselves w… Read More

The post A Simple Man’s Blessing appeared first on Story Tour. A man came to the holy rabbi of the village for a blessing. The rabbi looked at the man for a long moment and then smiled… Read More

The post The Doctor No One Liked Cures King’s Son appeared first on Story Tour. The lack of faith caused by science is not old. It is such an age-old matter that “Asa in the thir… Read More

The post No Better than a Horse appeared first on Story Tour. A young student came to Tam and Chacham and asked to receive semichah – rabbinical ordination. Tam was studying from a hol… Read More

The post A Mountaintop Experience appeared first on Story Tour. Many people, when confronted with challenges to their beliefs and faith, see a huge mountain and are faced with a choice. They… Read More

The post The Mysterious Bagel Vendor appeared first on Story Tour. A simple man in the village had a daughter who suffered teribly with serious eye trouble and no doctor knew how to cure her… Read More

The post A Judgment of Money appeared first on Story Tour. The holy rabbi of the village was out walking through the market place when he saw a man so upset that he was crying. He went over… Read More

The post Live by Faith appeared first on Story Tour. So many people become confused with the many conflicting messages they receive in their everyday lives. They hear the bitterness and, sad… Read More

The post Others Should Also Be able to Help appeared first on Story Tour. In Jewish law and tradition, redeeming a captive (pidyon shevuyim) is the highest form of charity. The code of Jewis… Read More

The post Hide and Seek A Game of Faith appeared first on Story Tour. One day the son of the holy rabbi of the village was playing hide-and-seek with another boy. The holy rabbi’s son s… Read More

The post A Path of Return and Forgiveness appeared first on Story Tour. A holy rabbi was feeling tired and run down so he decided to follow the advice of his doctor and went to a seaside spa… Read More

The post Alexander the Great and the Wisdom of a Youth appeared first on Story Tour. Some believe that Alexander the Great is referred to in the prophesy, “Then a warrior king shall ar… Read More

The post An Egg and Tzedakah – Charity appeared first on Story Tour. A Certain man had been wicked all his life long. When he was about to die, his family said to him: “Why do yo… Read More

The post A Matter of Perspective appeared first on Story Tour. One day a rich man received a letter from his son who was studying in another city. Being occupied, he asked his secretary to r… Read More

The post He Who Turns Against a Friend in Distress appeared first on Story Tour. A certain man was condemned to death and led out to be stoned. Large stones were thrown at him but he remaine… Read More

The post The Falcon, the Eagle, and the King appeared first on Story Tour. Once upon a time there was a great king whose ministers and gover­nors and followers did not honor him. Now he… Read More

The post The Honey in Mead appeared first on Story Tour. There once was a man who searched for a good livelihood and so he asked many merchants and businessmen what he should do. He was advi… Read More

The post A Tale of Two Knights in the Desert appeared first on Story Tour. A layer of sand shimmering like a sea of gold, covered the desert floor for as far as the eye could see. The sky wa… Read More

The post A Search Without Direction appeared first on Story Tour. The distractions of the world often interferes with the spiritual journey one would like to take. Science and technology fur… Read More

The post Rabbi Eleazar and Eliyahu haNovi appeared first on Story Tour. Once in the days of Rabbi Eleazar the son of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai was walking along a path beside a great river. Th… Read More

The post The True Son appeared first on Story Tour. There was a woman who cautioned her reckless daughter, saying: “If you act shamelessly, do so only in secret in order that your husb… Read More

The post The Value of Each Word appeared first on Story Tour. A ragged beggar was once walking along, head bowed and back bent, his entire body revealing misery and suffering. As he was trud… Read More

The post The Clever Judge and the Bride’s Missing Clothes appeared first on Story Tour. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. (Proverbs 21:3)… Read More

The post The Holy Bakers in the Market appeared first on Story Tour. In the Jerusalem market were two small stands next to one another where two pious Jewish women each sold tasty and fragra… Read More

The post Sultan Suleiman and Eliyahu haNovi the Prophet appeared first on Story Tour. In the days of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, that holy and magnificent, honorable, and princely rabbi… Read More

The post A Meal of Herbs appeared first on Story Tour. “Better a meal of herbs where there is love than a fatted ox where there is hatred” (Proverbs 15:17). Relating to who did K… Read More

The post A Pencil Box and Child Awareness of Death appeared first on Story Tour. I was deep in thought at my office, preparing a lesson to be given that evening at a community center across… Read More

The post The Taste of the Garden of Eden appeared first on Story Tour. Tam and Chacham were old friends and would frequently travel together to perform various mitzvos and to collect tzedaka… Read More

The post The War Against the Evil Inclination appeared first on Story Tour. Man is engaged in a constant war against his archrival, the yetzer hara – evil inclination. How can man succ… Read More

The post The Coins of Eliyahu haNovi appeared first on Story Tour. Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the L-rd and he will reward them for what they have done. (Proverbs., 19:17) Once t… Read More

The post Short Pesach/Passover Stories to Share appeared first on Story Tour. On Pesach (Passover) we read the Haggadah Haggadah means the telling Here are some Stories of Pesach to share a… Read More

The post Four Cups of Milk for the Seder appeared first on Story Tour. A man once came to the holy rabbi of the village and asked whether it is permissible to fulfill the mitzvah of the four… Read More

The post The Gift of Life appeared first on Story Tour. A king’s son was once walking along a forest path when he reached a clearing filled with many beautiful wonders. The prince stop… Read More

The post A Freilechen Purim Stories 2022 appeared first on Story Tour. Story Tour shares special Purim stories for all to enjoy and share with others. The threat of violence, a growing war i… Read More

The post The Captain and the Innkeeper appeared first on Story Tour. A captain traveled with a special unit of trained soldiers at the command of the king to accomplish an important task. Th… Read More

The post Fire, Stories and Teshuvah appeared first on Story Tour. A well traveled maggid (spiritual storyteller) was once asked whether he believed himself to be more faithful than others or… Read More

The post Feelings for Another appeared first on Story Tour. You know my shame, and my embarrassment, and my humiliation. (Psalms 69:20) Tam and Chacham respected every person. Chacham tende… Read More

The post The Stone Demon appeared first on Story Tour. Once there was a religious man who while clearing his field found a hidden underground room which was closed by a fine and handsome pie… Read More

The post The King’s Two Sons appeared first on Story Tour. A king had two sons; one was very proud, always bragging, and full of conceit. The other was extremely hum­ble, modest, a… Read More

The post Healing Food and Blessings appeared first on Story Tour. In earlier generations, there were great rabbis who could heal the sick. if a person ate food in his house, they went away w… Read More

The post A Holocaust Gilgul appeared first on Story Tour. Rabbi Chaim Trappe walked along the street in Jerusalem, the Holy City appeared to be a typical religious family. If one looked they… Read More

The post The True Owner of the House appeared first on Story Tour. Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; (1 Samuel 2:3) A man arrived in a big city and began… Read More

The post The Miser’s Slippers appeared first on Story Tour. In a town lived a very rich miser. Every time the local rabbi came to his door to collect funds for the poor, the miser woul… Read More

The post To Whom to Give Charity appeared first on Story Tour. Every morning when the holy rabbi would arrive at the synagogue he would hang his coat on a peg in the hallway. He would then p… Read More

The post A Pot of Soup and the Yetzer Hara appeared first on Story Tour. There was an innkeeper who cooked meals for all her guests. Inevitably she ended up preparing food for all the labore… Read More

The post A Tavern Owner’s Lesson appeared first on Story Tour. If one is a pleasure seeker but not a seeker of spiritual delight than the teaching, “If you allow your soul to tak… Read More

The post How A Woman Became a Great Spiritual Leader appeared first on Story Tour. Shaindle Rivka was known as a holy woman of great knowledge and wisdom. People were constantly coming to he… Read More

The post A Daughter’s Memory appeared first on Story Tour. I was slowly eating breakfast at the college cafeteria when my father died on a remote trail, on the other side of the countr… Read More

The post A King’s Wisdom for a Year appeared first on Story Tour. The people of a certain land had an unusual custom, Every year they would go out to the main road which led to their c… Read More

The post Holy Challah – a Story, Some Prayers and a Recipe appeared first on Story Tour. Every Shabbos and Yom Tov (holiday), except Pesach (Passover), Jewish women prepare and bake ch… Read More

The post A Lesson from a Thief appeared first on Story Tour. Tam and Chacham were learning together once when they came upon the pasuk (verse) in parsha Kedoshim (portion of holiness): &ldqu&hell…Read More

The post Why Do the Trees Whistle? appeared first on Story Tour. Tu biShvat – The new Years of the Trees is a holiday that is often minimaqlized. It is much more than merely the &ldquo&hell…Read More

The post Distractions appeared first on Story Tour. Throughout a person’s entire life, his yetzer hara – evil inclination lies in ambush. It attempts to steer them away from the… Read More

The post A Prayer for Beauty appeared first on Story Tour. An old holy rabbi one day announced to his students that he was going to hike in the mountains. “Don’t you think you&rs&hell…Read More

The post The Little Challah Roll appeared first on Story Tour. Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman who were very poor and had nothing at all to their name. And they kept… Read More

The post The Rabbi and the Wagon Driver appeared first on Story Tour. The children of a rabbi and a wagon driver were set to be married. Since the in-laws lived faraway from one another, the… Read More

The post The Rabbi, The Businessman and Learning appeared first on Story Tour. We mention the Patriarchs (Avraham (Abraham), Yitzchak (Isaac) and Yaakov (Jacob)) at the beginning of the Shem… Read More

The post The Power of Faith and an Oath appeared first on Story Tour. Keep far from a false word” (Exodus 23:7). There were once two brothers who lived in the south of the land; and t… Read More

The post Paving the Way from Yesterday to Tomorrow appeared first on Story Tour. For many years, a man worked in a wealthy merchant’s textile shop. For many years, he measured fabrics… Read More

The post Defending One’s Property – a short story  http://projectshalom2.org/StoryTour/?p=29 appeared first on Story Tour. Defending One’s Property Read More

The post Holy Dance and Song Before the ShabbosTable appeared first on Story Tour. Tam and Chacham traveled together and once came to a village on Friday afternoon. As Shabbos began, they se… Read More

The post The Treasure of the Heart appeared first on Story Tour. A wealthy man was set to start out on a long journey to a dis­tant land. He packed many his clothes, other necessities, a… Read More

The post The Ability to Forget appeared first on Story Tour. A merchant once found himself suffering from a great setback. He was heavily in debt to all his friends and ac­quaintances. O… Read More

The post The Haunted Lyra: A Jewish Tale from Greece appeared first on Story Tour. There was a carpenter in the city of Salonika who was called upon by the chevra kadisha to make a coffin fo… Read More

The post A Coat’s Tale appeared first on Story Tour. Joseph’s father was a tailor and as a young boy Joseph would spend days in his father’s shop, learning how to cut and s… Read More

The post The Groom Who Was Destined to Die on His Wedding Day: A tale from the Beta Yisrael appeared first on Story Tour. It is well known that babies cry from the moment they are born. Why?… Read More

The post Business, Time and Faith appeared first on Story Tour. The son of a wealthy merchant decided that he would like to enter the business world to earn his own way. He went to his fathe… Read More

The post The Magic Ingredient of Love appeared first on Story Tour. There is a special connection between the manna that fell in the desert during the 40 years of wandering and Shabbos. Ther… Read More

Two young men learned together in the same yeshivah. They were both very gifted and hardworking, and each progressed steadily in his Torah studies. When they grew older, however, they went t… Read More

Rabbi Beroka Choza’a was often found in the market of Bei Lefet, and Eliyahu haNovi (Elijah the Prophet) would often appear to him. Once Rabbi Beroka asked Elijah, “Of all the pe… Read More

The next morning cries for help were heard from inside the mountain, and when it was discovered that the princess was missing, the king under­stood it must be the voice of his daughter t… Read More

Part II will be posted on 3 November 2021 Many years ago, there was a king who ruled over a vast kingdom and was believed by many to be the wealthi­est man in the world. This king had a… Read More

“Man was created one and alone in the world. And why was he created one and alone in the world? That the righteous might not say, “We are the children of a righteous man,”… Read More

A man was charged with committing a serious crime against the king and was placed in prison until his trial. When it came time for him to stand trial, he was taken from his cell by one of th… Read More

Once there was a poor little girl who was so filled with faith, and she lived alone with her mother. Sadly, their cupboard was bare and many times they had little to nothing to eat. One day… Read More

In a certain city there was a simple man who had little learning and sometimes foolish. One day, one of the young students who learned a lot, but had little compassion decided to amuse his f… Read More

There was once a pious man who was wealthy and of the king’s company. He had a handsome, fine-looking, and wise son. Before he passed away, he told his son not to leave the synagogue f… Read More

Two students of Tam and Chacham were arguing about the true path to spirituality in the world. One student said that the path was built on effort and energy “You must completely devote… Read More

Tam and Chacham attended a funeral together. Chacham observed that: “We learn that we are to ‘Deal graciously with the departed that you may be dealt with graciously, mourn, bury… Read More

“But whatever gave you the idea to whisper the Shema Yisrael in my ear? Did you, perhaps, think that I too might be a secret Jew?” “Not really. I had no reason to believe t… Read More

The post The Cardinal and the Counsellor: Part I The Cardinal’s Prayer appeared first on Story Tour. Part II The Cardinal’s Secret will be posted on 5 October 2021 Over 400 years… Read More

The post What is More Valuable a Mezuzah or a Diamond? appeared first on Story Tour. Ardavan, the king of Persia, believed that the fulfilment of one’s life was to be as rich and wealt… Read More

The post The Finger: An old Jewish Horror Tale appeared first on Story Tour. The Jewish story that the movie, The Corpse Bride, was based on One night long ago, in the ancient city of Safed… Read More

The post No Fault Divorce appeared first on Story Tour. In today’s society, there are many factors and issues that must be considered before granting a divorce. The seriousness of divo… Read More

The post He Didn’t Deserve His Fee appeared first on Story Tour. There once was a very prominent doctor who thought more of his fees than of his patients. The doctor was called in to t… Read More

The post The Groom and the Beast – A Jewish Tale from old Cairo appeared first on Story Tour. There once was a wealthy man and wife who longed, more than anything else, to have a child… Read More

The post Only A Drink of Water appeared first on Story Tour. A holy rabbi known and respected for his learning and teachings was passing through a village one day. He was very thirsty after… Read More

The post A Special Drink for a Special Time appeared first on Story Tour. This will be the greatest event the city of Aleppo has seen in many years,” Moshe said to his wife, Penina. &l&hell…Read More

The post Who Was to Blame? appeared first on Story Tour. It is said that King Solomon was so wise he could speak and understand the languages of all the animals. To set an example for people… Read More

The post A Reason for Every Custom appeared first on Story Tour. It happened once that a wealthy merchant, in the custom of the Jewish community, took care of all the needs of his newly marr… Read More

The post Eating Stones appeared first on Story Tour. Tam and Chacham frequently traveled together and everywhere they went they were respected. During their journeys they often collected fun… Read More