Some of the most fabulous legends about Hasidic rabbis start while their subjects are still children. The legends of Sender Safrin (1806-1874), the first rebbe of the Hasidic sect of Komarno, are even more fantastic–they start before his birth. According to his autobiography, Megillat Setari (Book of Secrets), Sender was conceived on the night of his parents’ wedding. (Yes, it’s totally weird […]
