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Street Farbrengen Episode # 122: Vanilla Chassid?
“I can’t date vanilla.”It sounded shallow. Until it wasn’t.Because how many of us live vanilla flavor lives—all the while thirsty for more color.We escape. We explain. We call it faith.
Street Farbrengen Episode 121 - Lag BaOmer Without Meron: Finding The Point Inside
It’s the first time in modern history.Lag BaOmer… and you can’t go to Meron.No HUGE crowds WITH bonfires on the mountain. So what’s left?Maybe that is the message.What if this year isn’t about going ...
Street Farbrengen Episode 120 - I Choose
A phone call while checking the stock market. A meeting while answering texts. Learning while thinking about business. Davening while the mind goes everywhere else.We tell ourselves it's multitasking. But maybe we’re not doing...
Street Farbrengen Episode 119 - No Excuses
Just a line that echoes louder with time:“It’s all up to you.”In this episode, the conversation continues and gets uncomfortable.Not theoretical... personal.What does it actually mean to live in Geul...
Street Farbrengen Episode 118 - Is it time to find a different Rebbe?
We live in a time of endless insight. Podcasts. Books. Ideas.We know more than ever.So why do we still feel stuck?In this episode of Street Farbrengen, a simple statement— “It’s up to you”— turns into a much bigger question:...
Street Farbrengen Episode 117 - Self Reliance? Dutiful recognition?
1991. “I’ve done all I can. From here—it’s up to you.”The line that lands heavy, leaves some in shock and some in resistance.From Reuven's meeting with a flower-crowned guru in Seattle…to moments that f...
Street Farbrengen Episode 116 - Chol Ha Moed Poolside chills in Florida
"I don't miss the Rebbe. I miss the farbrengens."That's how this pre-Pesach Street Farbrengen opens — and it only gets messier from there.Reuven and Zacharia dig into one of the most provocative questions in Chabad today: ...
Street Farbrengen Episode 115 - Looking for a new experience? How about stop pretending you understand the one you’re already in!
In this episode of Street Farbrengen, the question 'How do I enter the Seder prepared for something real?' takes a surprising turn.What may begin with an assumption to create a desire to “jump” to a higher ...
Street Farbrengen Episode 114 - Did G-d leave your room?
G-d is our koach?Most people understand G-d gives you talents, strength, opportunity — the abilities you use to succeed.But Chassidus suggests something far deeper.It’s not that G-d gave yo...
Street Farbrengen Episode 113 - Slave or Prisoner?
“When Adar enters, we increase in joy.”Rashi explains that the joy comes because we are approaching Purim and Pesach. In other words, Adar begins a movement—from celebration to liberation.But there’s a fascinating detail in the la...
Street Farbrengen Episode 112 - Stop Drifting.
Stop Drifting.If you’ve been reacting instead of choosing — this episode is for you.Zion Adar isn’t sentimental. It’s power. Mazalo gavar — your inner root is strong. That’s why the Rebbe pushed for making a <...
Street Farbrengen Episode 111 - Pareto Principle and Adar - 80/20 rule 80% of outcomes (results) come from 20% of causes - Show up Warm
Adar marks more than a turning point in Jewish history. Chassidus teaches that Purim represents a turning point in Jewish inner history.At Har Sinai, the Torah was accepted under awe — even coercion. In the days of Puri...
Street Farbrengen Episode 110 - Life is a Farbrengen. Are You Walking Out Elevated?
This week on Street Farbrengen, we ask a question that somehow took us 100+ episodes to articulate:Why are we called Street Farbrengen — when we’re sitting at a dining room table?As the Alter Rebbe &nb...
Street Farbrengen Episode 109 - G-d and the Mafia
What happens when we start treating Hashem like a mafia boss?You pay your dues. You keep your side of the deal. And then the “laundromat” still burns down.Is our relationship with G-d transactional? If I...
Street Farbrengen Episode 108 - Can You Nullify a Self You Don’t Know?
This Week’s ConversationDoes knowing yourself contradict bitul (self-nullification)?This week’s Street Farbrengen circles a tension many of us feel but rarely articulate: Chassidus teaches bit...
Street Farbrengen Episode 107 - G-d. My Critic or Companion?
This week’s Street Farbrengen began with a story that shook the room.A man who lost his son.A man who later experienced something that felt like an open miracle.And instead of comfort, his response was raw and aching:“Hashem…...
Street Farbrengen Episode 106 - Are You Allowed to Breathe?
This week’s Street Farbrengen goes right into the fire. What’s really behind the controversy over breathwork in Crown Heights? Is the issue the practice—or something deeper? The conversation unfolds into an unexpected place: the idea that the r...
Street Farbrengen Episode 105 - Naiveté and the Struggle for Real
I look around and see so many people struggling to stay inspired — in Yiddishkeit, with Chassidus and the Rebbe.And yet, after decades, I still feel a fire when I learn Chassidus.And honestly? This itself feels like ...
Street Farbrengen Episode 104 - Chassidus has Everything - Fact or Fiction?
We dive into a provocative statement you’ve probably heard in Hasidic circles: “CHASSIDUS has everything.” What does that actually mean? Does Chasidic thought truly encompass every aspect of life and purpose — or is that phras...
Street Farbrengen Episode 103 - Hey Teves - not who won? but Who flourishes?
The Rebbe said it clearly on Hey Teves: the books are talking to you — and they’re waiting to be expanded. Didan Natzach means learning. Not celebrating Torah. Not cheering for it. Opening it and drawing it outward.The sfarim aren’t fini...
Street Farbrengen Episode 102 - Life Above Nature
We can read Hanukkah as a turnaround story: oppression, resistance, triumph. Street Farbrengen questions that framing entirely.The Maccabees didn’t fight because they believed they would win. They fought because it wasn’t a q...
Street Farbrengen Episode 101 - Yud-Tes Kislev a moment or a checkbox?
In this episode, we take on a quiet but uncomfortable question: what does it mean when our relationship with G-d becomes transactional—show up, punch in, punch out, move on? Through a raw, sometimes tense conversation, we ex...
Street Farbrengen Episode 100 - Faith, Helplessness and the Quest for Control
This week on Street Farbrengen, we start with an uncomfortable moment in shul. Someone tells me straight out: “My problem with Chabad is you think you have the emes – the truth of truths.” And I answ...
Street Farbrengen Episode 99- Fighting “isms” is obsolete - the real war is honesty
What do you do when the farbrengen glow wears off and it’s just you… and your phone?In this week’s Street Farbrengen, we start from a Yud Kislev fabrengen and ask a very uncomfortable question: Is there even such a thing as “inspiration...