A Lie to Heal the Sick: Volume 6, Issue 21, Tzav
- Mar 27
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March 28, 2026; 10 Nissan, 5786 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara
One of the most beloved and celebrated figures in nineteenth-century Ukrainian Chassidus was Reb Dovid'l Twersky of Tolna (1808–1882), known simply as the Tolna Rebbe. He was a towering spiritual leader whose court drew thousands of Chassidim from across the Kiev district, and whose wisdom extended into domains that modern society would today recognize as psychiatry and mental health.
Reb Dovid Twersky was born in 1808 in the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl, the sixth son of Reb Mordechai Twersky, the Maggid of Chernobyl. His grandfather was the great Reb Menachem Nachum, the Me'or Einayim, one of the foremost disciples of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezritch...