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The Messenger, a sinister, unnamed traveler.Sender, son of Henya, a rich merchant who resides in Brinitz, Leah's father.

Khanan, a poor Yeshiva student enamored with Leah, who is rumored to practice forbidden Kabbalah.

Leah, daughter of Sender, a maiden who had come of age and yet her father constantly rejects her suitors.

The play, which depicts the possession of a young woman by the malicious spirit – known as dybbuk in Jewish folklore – of her dead beloved, became a canonical work of both Hebrew and Yiddish theatre, being further translated and performed around the world.

A Hebrew version was prepared by Hayim Nahman Bialik and staged in Moscow at Habima Theater in 1922. The Dybbuk had its world premiere in that language, performed by the Vilna Troupe at Warsaw in 1920. It was originally written in Russian and later translated into Yiddish by Ansky himself. Mezh dvukh mirov Yiddish: צווישן צוויי וועלטן - דער דִבּוּק, Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn – der Dibuk) is a play by S. The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds ( Russian: Меж двух миров, trans. Show me the man who, in the midst of a community however secularized in manners, can compel it to think with him, can kindle its enthusiasm, revive its faith, cleanse its passions, purify its ambitions, and give steadfastness to its will, and I will show you the real master of society, no matter what party may nominally hold the reins of government, no matter what figurehead may occupy the ostensible place of authority.Brinitz and Miropol, Volhynia, Pale of Settlement Asquith often went to hear him preach because, he said, “he had a fire in his belly.” Being both a politician and a preacher, he was able from personal experience to compare the two vocations, and he had no doubt which was the more influential: The preacher, who is the messenger of God, is the real master of society not elected by society to be its ruler, but elect of God to form its ideals and through them to guide and rule its life. He had a reputation for eloquence in the House of Commons, and for passion in the pulpit. “Horne was both a Congregational minister and a member of the British parliament. “First, we must boldly handle the major themes of human life, the incessant questions which men and women have always asked and which the great novelists and dramatists have treated in every age: What is the purpose of our existence? Has life any significance? Where did I come from, and where am I going to? What does it mean to be a human being, and how do humans differ from animals? Whence this thirst for transcendence, this universal quest for a Reality above and beyond us, this need to fall down and worship the Infinitely Great? What is freedom, and how can I experience personal liberation? Why the painful tension between what I am and what I long to be? Is there a way to be rid of guilt and of a guilty conscience? What about the hunger for love, sexual fulfillment, marriage, family life, and community on the one hand, and on the other the pervasive sense of alienation, and the base, destructive passions of jealousy, malice, hate, lust, and revenge? Is it possible truly to master oneself and love one’s neighbor? Is there any light on the dark mysteries of evil and suffering? How can we find courage to face first life, then death, then what may lie beyond death? What hope can sustain us in the midst of our despair?”