Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of
Berditchev used to say that he was playing hide-and-seek with G-d--and would find Him everywhere." (p.
(27.) "The Eternal Light": "The Wandering of the Little Melody" (show 89, first broadcast July 14, 1946); and "The Song of
Berditchev" (broadcast no later than March 20, 1947, when the show was referred to in the American Israelite as "The Nigun from Berditchen [sic]" [March 20, 1947, 3]).
The Learning Play of Rabbi Levi-Yitzhok, Son of Sara, of
Berditchev, Dan Friedman; dir: Moshe Yassur.
For Levi Isaac of
Berditchev, they were supremely worthy objects of compassion, ever-innocent defendants in their trials of adversity, whose case he was always eager to plead.
Levi Isaac of
Berditchev, was reported to have said that
Levi Yitzchak of
Berditchev, known as the Defender of the Jewish People.
When Rabbi Levi Yitzhak became the Rav in
Berditchev, he made an agreement with the town leaders: they were not to ask him to their meetings unless they intended to discuss the introduction of a new usage or a new procedure.
RABBI Levi Yitzhak of
Berditchev was looking out over the town square.
Grinberg, descendent of great Hasidic rabbis, referred to Rabbi Yitzhak Levy of
Berditchev as "ha-dadaistan be-talit u-tfilin," that is, "the Dadaist in prayer-shawl and phylacteries." (51) In other words, a Hasidic rebbe performing the commandments of prayer is transformed into a Dada artist, which for Grinberg might have been a good thing, a sign that he came from good stock after all.
Two further sources are found in a much learned and very popular book by Hasidic master Isaac Levi of
Berditchev, Kedushat Levi.
In his excellent book on Rabbi Levi Yitzhaq of
Berditchev (1740-1810), Samuel Dresner cites the "Kaddish of Levi Yitzhaq" which mixes vernacular Yiddish and liturgical Aramaic: [1]
Job is part of that chain that began with Abraham, continued with Moses, with Jeremiah, with Habbakuk, with Levi Yizhak of
Berditchev, and others.