R. Meir Halevi, the author of Sefer Or la-Shamayim, was

The “world” relates that on the day that the Apter

R. Mendel Michel Zlotchover did not have [the necessities] for

Once the Besht suddenly ordered R. Wolf Kitzes to travel

It is related in the name of the Ten Idlers:

The Malach was a Magid in Posov. After a while,

The Revelation of the Besht Once the Besht traveled through

The Sadegerer, R. Avraham Ya’akov once said: as a true

When the boat upon which the Besht was traveling to

When the Besht was traveling en route to Israel, he

The [exact] day of the Besht’s passing is unknown. Some

The Noda be-Yehuda in one of his responsa rails against

The Besht arrived in a village for Shabbos. He witnessed

When the Besht was on his deathbed, Satan came and

After the Besht passed away his other disciples did not

Before the Magid became a disciple of the Besht he

R. Pinchas of Koretz [d.1791] visited the Besht for the

Before the Besht passed away he said: before I go

When R. Israel, the Husyatiner, began to put on phylacteries,

R. Yaacov Shimshon, the Bohopoler Rabbi, said that in Slavuta

[Rabbi Avraham] haMalakh married the daughter of R. Faivush Kremenetzer.

[Rabbi Avraham] haMalakh used to bake matzahs the day before

Before the Magid passed away he spoke with haMalakh about

The custom in the court of Chernobyl was that a

[Side comment:] R. Katz related that he heard from a

The first of the Hasidic rebbes to strongly oppose the

When R. Baruch of Medzhybizh [d.1811] was still a child

When the Rav [R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi] began to

When R. Abraham of Sochatchov [d.1910] was a boy he

The Preacher of Sokal, R. Solomon Lutzker [d.1813] experienced a

The Seer [Jacob Isaac] of Lublin [d.1815] sensed that a

The Rabbi of Sokol, the Ramraz, was the elder Belzer

R. Shmelke of Nikolsburg once gave a pauper a ring

R. Hayim Sanzer earned his living through a white linen

R. Moses Leib of Sasov (d. 1807) once came to

R. Zalman Orenstein told the Kinever Rebbe: The Rav [i.e.

R. Jacob Emden [d. 1776] once said: “Since I am

When R. Baruch of Medzibuz was a child of about

R. Motele Chernobyler’s second wife – with whom he had

R. Yevi [Jacob Joseph of Ostrog (d. 1791)] became a

R. Nahman of Breslav [d. 1810] once said: “It doesn’t

R. Moses Hayim Ephraim of Sadilkov [d. 1800], a grandson

It is said about R. Aaron Klivaner, a disciple of

R. Arele (?) Tetiver [d.c. 1800] a grandson (?) of

The Rebbe [Moses Zevi] of Savran [d. 1837] quarreled with

The verse “but all the children of Israel had

The tsadikim gave the following reason for why he was

When the [book] Toldot [ya’akov yosef] was printed and [the

R. Baruch of Medzibuz once said the following saying (vort)

At the Sadagurer’s table (tish) there was a large crowd,

Before Shevu’ot it was a bad year. There was no

Pinchas Landau saw one of the marginal notes of the

Hasidim say that since the Besht says: “Is he, not

Why was it called Zoref? The Besht called it so

The Besht did not want to show the [manuscript of

The last year before he passed away, while traveling the

At the Strelisker’s [d. 1826] There was a great scarcity

R. Meir of Premishlan [d. 1850] feared that other Rebbes

Even though the Besht himself told people to speak ill