For TU B’SHEVAT: Two Poems by Alter Esselin (A Torah study led by Rabbi J.B. Sacks on January 20, 2024) With Tu B’Shevat coming this week, let us look at two poems by the Yiddish poet, Alter Esselin. Esselin was born with the name Orkeh in the Russian empire in 1889. His father died when […]
