Prayer occupies a central role in the spiritual life of Hasidic Jews, serving as a means of establishing a direct connection with the Divine. Through fervent supplication and heartfelt devotion ...

It pierced through all the heavenly gates. Thereafter, all our prayers were permitted to follow." The story illustrates a number of essential Hasidic teachings: that the master has the ability to ...

The landmarks of the Hasidic neighborhood, the prayer house (the shtibl), ritual bath (mikveh), studyhouse (besmedresh), rebbe's residence, and school, are usually all within walking distance of ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel’s government on Sunday approved a compromise to expand the non-Orthodox Jewish prayer section of the Western Wall, putting to rest the decades-long fight between ...

Several thousand Hasidic Jews from Israel, Europe and the United States have gathered in the southeastern Polish town ...

The former president visited the gravesite of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement ... the Jewish mourning prayer, the Kaddish, and reminded ...