In 1772, a child is born in Medzibuz, Ukraine. He is the son of a rabbi, a nephew of a rabbi, and a great grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the iconic founder of the Hasidic movement, a reformative ...

The Hasidic home is bilingual, with English and Yiddish sometimes mixing together (many English words have found their way into Brooklyn Hasidic Yiddish, and a Hasid speaking English will often ...