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Farbrengen is Art. Art of the soul. It is a living palette of heart and mind, mixing the modern Chassidic culture and contemporary issues ….which perhaps we rather not talk about. Add honesty and simplicity, and you have a Street Farbrengen.“Our canvas is the Street corner we cherish - common sense, heart, and the spirit of adventure. Its what is ChabadLife.” Co- hosts Reuven Flamer and Zacharia Lipitz talk about what normally lives underground...Gimmel Tammuz.
Episodes
108 episodes
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...
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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…...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 98: I forget to use my mind!”
Ever walk out of a great shiur or powerful davening totally on fire… and by 11:30 AM you’re scrolling, annoyed at people, and can’t even remember what you decided that morning?That’s where this week’s Street Farbrengen st...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 97- “Chossid or a cheerleader with pom-poms?”
This week on Street Farbrengen, Zacharya pushes back on something Reuven brought to the farbrengen that many may feel but rarely say out loud: Is the Rebbe the mission?We go straight for the jugular: What...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 96 - J'accuse - Unspoken post-traumatic stress syndrome- Chabad Style
As we approach our 100th episode, Zacharia and Reuven turn the mic inward — to the Chabad community itself.We began nearly a year ago, with a simple question: Has Chabad’s leadership been living with unspoken post-traumatic stress since ...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 95 - “Open the door and Windows"
When Chassidus stays in the head, it turns into philosophy. The mind is dazzled, but the heart and soul remain hungry.Prayer, seen through the lens of dirah betachtonim—making a dwelling place for G-d—means inviting Him into the...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 94 - Marcheshvan - from Fireworks to Ordinary but Dynamic
“Hey friends, welcome back to Street Farbrengen. We’re in that first quiet week after the many holidays of the Tishrei month, stepping into Mar-Cheshvan, where the calendar goes from fireworks to ordinary but Dynamic . And a...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 93 - Journals, coffee counters, and a lifetime later
At Starbucks this week, Reuven’s daily journaling yanked him back 50 years—to a 3 AM café in Vancouver, same pen, same seeker. From Vancouver nights to the Rebbe’s court: am I the “same guy,” or did I just change what I’m looking at? What if th...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 92 - Bittul Reframed: Jewish Independence
Americana glorifies the lone cowboy, the self-made man, the myth of total independence. But what happens when the Rebbe redefines independence — not as isolation, but as a deeper kind of freedom within Jewish life? In this farbrenge...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 91 - Cut The Tether To Yesterday
In this week’s Street Farbrengen, Reuven shares a gripping “Hasidic geneiva” Yechidus story that an elder chossid confided to him—how, at his brother’s bar mitzvah, he slipped the Rebbe a three-page letter about a toxic mashpia, his confusion, ...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 90 - Two shuls, one room.
There”s an old joke about the man shipwrecked on a deserted island who builds the shul he goes to and the shul he'd never step into"?But what happens when both of those shuls live inside the same room, or in the same ...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 89 - Control and Chaos - Owning the Self
The awesome and wonderful month of Elul begs participation. It asks for something new from you.A " cheshbon hanefesh” What is it, this "tally of self?Street Farbrengen looks at the control and chaos of making...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 88 - Tisha B'av Postscript
Are We Living Our Spirituality Dynamically?In this week’s episode of Streetfarbrengen we dive into a thought-provoking question sparked by a morning shul conversation: Do we live our spirituality symbolically, practically, or dy...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 87 - Launch Rockets
What does it take to go against the grain? How do you defy the gravity of culture of 'this is the way things are' and lift off into your intended orbit?“Zacharia, I am almost twice your age ", remarks Reuven in this week's episode ...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 86 - 99% inspiration?
The 12th of Tammuz highlights courage and sacrifice in the fight for your values and truth - no matter the size and authority of your opponent!In this episode of Street Farbrengen let's tackle how to bridge with the Yud Beis...
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