Accounts of prayer, study, spiritual strengthening and gratitude connected with Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch and his teachings.
Michal attended the Bat Ayin hillula while her future husband prayed at his resting place in Safed. According to the testimony, a year later they married on 12 Kislev in the hall where the hillula had taken place.
Read the full storyA 23-year-old donated NIS 300 to the Bat Ayin hillula and attended the gathering. According to the testimony, three months later, on 12 Adar, she found her match and the couple agreed to marry.
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A mother of a three-year-old developed meningitis and undertook to hold a hillula honoring the Bat Ayin. According to the testimony submitted to the site, she recovered and is expecting to give birth soon.
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A story of a young man who waited years for a match, his sister's prayer at the Bat Ayin's tomb and the family's commitment to hold a meal of gratitude and a hillula.
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Rabbi Shmuel Heller feared that a communal mission had cost him his days of repentance. The tradition of the Bat Ayin's response brings public responsibility together with the spiritual work of the High Holy Days.
Read the full storySafed's elders related a story about the Bat Ayin's voyage to Israel and the short journey that astonished the ship's captain.
Read the full storyA tradition about Rabbi Shlomo of Radomsk's love for Bat Ayin: a book borrowed for a few days became a gift received with great joy.
Read the full storyA father from Monsey sponsored a child's tuition in Safed in memory of the Bat Ayin. He described a change in his own son's learning and his decision to continue giving.
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A man from Williamsburg thought he had seen no deliverance after attending a Bat Ayin hillula meal. According to the account, a test for sleeplessness led to the urgent discovery of a heart condition.
Read the full storyRabbi David of Lelov in Jerusalem related that, when the Bat Ayin finished a conversation whose subject did not end happily, he would add words of blessing.
Read the full storyThe Bat Ayin was asked about the Sages' description of a heavenly voice issuing from Mount Horeb: if it is meant to awaken people, how can it be heard? According to the account, he did not answer at first.
Read the full storyRabbi Mordechai Chaim Slonim studied Bat Ayin daily and read a passage at Shabbat meals. In his old age, when the book was read to him, he spoke about how distant he felt from the spiritual levels it described.
Read the full storyRabbi Aharon of Chernobyl cherished the book Bat Ayin. According to tradition, it remained on his table and was studied with affection.
Read the full storyRabbi Meshulam Zusman of Zhytomyr described the recording and preservation of the Torah teachings. The manuscripts were given to the Bat Ayin, who reviewed them before moving to the Land of Israel.
Read the full storyA letter concerning the book's publication gives two reasons for the author's chosen title. The first is the numerical connection, through gematria, between the book's name and his own name, Avraham Dov Ber.
Read the full storyDr. Eliezer Levy, an emissary of Moses Montefiore, described a Shabbat visit to Rabbi Avraham Dov. He portrayed the rabbi as a learned man devoted to the community's needs.
Read the full storyAccording to tradition, during an uprising in Safed the Bat Ayin was offered special shelter. He preferred to remain where the other Jews were staying.
Read the full storyIt is told that Rabbi Yisrael Leib, a relative of the Bat Ayin, obtained bread for Jews facing hardship in Safed. He gave everyone a portion, and some bread remained afterward.
Read the full storyPassover preparations change the routines of a home. According to tradition, the Bat Ayin noticed that many people needed somewhere to stay and study during those busy days.
Read the full storyThe Bat Ayin was known for hospitality and care for pilgrims heading to Meron. He arranged lodging and meals for them.
Read the full storyA visitor to Safed described Rosh Hashanah in the Bat Ayin's study hall. Before the shofar blasts, the rabbi stepped onto the platform, and the congregation expected a sermon.
Read the full storyRabbi Yisrael Shimon Kastelnitz related a rule established by the Bat Ayin in his study hall: anyone who talked during prayer had to bring wine to the study hall as a penalty.
Read the full storyRabbi Shmuel Heller came to the Bat Ayin with a difficulty in Maimonides' writings. According to tradition, his teacher asked him to return after Minchah. When he did, the Bat Ayin reviewed the passage and explained it quickly.
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Explore the 1837 Safed earthquake, the tradition of the worshippers' rescue in the Bat Ayin's study hall and the memorial inscription at the Avritch synagogue.
Read the full storyA yeshiva student told Kol Barama radio that he and five friends observed a practice together on the hillula day—and all married within a year.
Read the full storyAccording to the testimony, a lawsuit over the synagogue's expansion ended after a powerful dream and the return of a check in the middle of the night.
Read the full storyThe tradition of the emissary, longing for the Holy Land and the prayer through which the Bat Ayin came to see its holiness with new eyes.
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A historical family letter records a tradition about Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Heller and his teacher, the author of Bat Ayin.
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The tradition of Rabbi Shlomo Gross, his dream on the night of the hillula and the fund he established for meals in honor of the Bat Ayin.
Read the full storyA couple who had waited years for a child committed to studying Bat Ayin. According to their testimony, their daughter was born less than a year later.
Read the full storyA brother undertook to study Bat Ayin in his sister's merit. According to the story, she became engaged within two weeks.
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According to the family's testimony, a dangerous injury near a girl's eye during a hillula meal left her vision unharmed.
Read the full storyTraditions from Safed, family letters and accounts of the Bat Ayin's students have their own section, with the known context and sources.
This collection covers marriage, family, livelihood and strengthening faith. Choose a story card to open its full page with an image, the account and its cited source.
Before a hillula meal, you can choose one story to read together and add a passage from Insights from His Teachings. For details about the day and preparation, visit the guide to hosting a Bat Ayin meal; for printable materials, visit Hosting a Hillula page.
The stories of deliverance on this site are connected with the hillula tradition, prayer and studying the tzaddik's teachings. Rabbi Elimelech Biderman's words of encouragement andThe Life of the Bat Ayin provide further background for your reading.
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