ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen
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
101 episodes
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Street Farbrengen Episode 99- Fighting “isms” is obsolete - the real war is honesty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"
Opening the Windows and DoorsThis Week’s Street FarbrengenWhen 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 ...
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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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Street Farbrengen Episode 85 - Forward Momentum
Chassidic circles stress the story of the spies' reluctance to enter Israel as the choice for spiritual isolation and comfort over the task of grappling with the physical realities of turning a land ( of Israel) i...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 84 - “Endlessness"
We often call success winning, like when you cross the goal line. We look to the end of the line, to know the end game, and to finding our cherished goal at the “end of the rainbow.” There is the “ end of days.” Wh...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 83 - “Are you Rocking it?"
A Street Farbengen is a focus on the road; on the path to take after all the talk and exchange between friends.Reuven and Zacharia continue the focus on Rabbi Akiva by the river. A constant drip on a rock burrows an indent. So too, think...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 82 - "Indented Rocks"
Rabbi Akiva saw drops of water falling on a stone making a deep hole. What power there is in a drop of water,” thought Rabbi Akiva. “Could my stony heart ever be softened up that way?”Lag B'omer is the Yom Halula of the Holy ...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 81 - Iyar's Chassidic Health Crisis
The letters of the month Iyar are an acronym for “I am G-d your healer.” What is your attitude towards health? Do you believe that good health is a gift from heaven, our days are numbered anyway and health is n...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 80 - “Choose Your Core"
What did the Rebbe mean when he said on Nissan 28th “I have done what I can do ... and now I give it over to you?” Was he intimating retirement, or even 3 Tammuz?Reuven suggests that we had it all wrong. The 28th of Nis...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 79 - Religious Atheism
“If you don’t apply yourself in Avodah ( to grow spiritually) then you are an atheist!”This needs explanation. This segment of Street Farbrengen struggles with the period of Sefiras Ha'omer. Intertwined with the...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 78 - "Chassidic Target Practice"
Be it in business, sports, and even in health, there is an emphasis on “The Target”, where is the bullseye, what’s your target?Reuven asks what is the target of a Chassid? We read that a Tzaddik is not the goal, and halavay, it should b...
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