The lead article an important insight into Jewish prayer by the Magid of Mezritch (successor to the Baal Shem Tov) whose yahrzeit is on 19th Kislev this week, as is the anniversary day of the first publication of Tanya (article #2)--an important primer for Kabbalah and Chasidut, and of the liberation of its author from prison a few years after (see articles 2-3 and the story "Power Books" featured on the home page and in last week's magazine).