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Street Farbrengen Episode # 139: Commitment Issues: What Am I Actually Willing to Changing This Rosh Hashanah?
Rosh Hashanah isn't just the head of the year—it's meant to lead the year. Reuven and Zaharia wrestle with what it means to make a real hachlata: not simply another goal, another page of Gemara, or more words of Tehillim, but a ...
Street Farbrengen Episode #138: Chai Elul And The Courage To Own Your Life
Be Born.We talk a lot about bittul—surrendering ourselves to something greater. But somewhere along the way, did we begin confusing bittul with weakness?Chai Elul celebrates the birthdays of the Baal Shem Tov a...
Street Farbrengen Episode # 137: Rosh Hashana - Is G-d Waiting to Punish You?
Is G-d Waiting to Punish You? |We each carry pictures of G-d in our heads or a sense of "personality."Is your picture of G-d keeping score, waiting for you to slip up? Do you need more zechusim, merit and worth, more se...
Street Farbrengen Episode #136 : G-d Has A Manifesto. What Is Yours?
A farbrengen is not a class. Nor a therapy session. Not a place to walk away with a tidy answer or a checklist of things to fix. In this conversation, we dig into what separates a farbrengen from a glorified pep talk — and land on s...
Street Farbrengen Episode 135 - Of Shabbos Meat Boards, Fun and The Art of Work!
A podcast about Nike shoes co-founder Phil Knight, sends Reuven into a full-blown crisis: what if work — even avodas Hashem , G-dly work— is supposed to feel like play? He walks into this farbrengen convinced Yiddishkeit runs on ...
Street Farbrengen Episode 134 - The Dysfunction of Spiritual Formuli
Elul's trademark identity is — I am to my beloved, my beloved is to me. It can slip through us without much thought. We repeat the formula — - arousal from below, arousal from above — but do we feel what it means to b...
Street Farbrengen Episode 133 - Divine Providence - Is it your Spiritual Tylenol?
Does believing "everything happens for a reason" make you more powerful — or turn you into a passenger in your own life? This episode cracks open Hashgacha Pratis (Divine Providence) and refuses to let it become spiritual Tylenol. Featuring the...
Street Farbrengen Episode 132 - Is G-d Your ATM Machine?
I was asked whether desperation is the right way to stand in front of G-d- Hashem — and the answer cracks open everything: why Kaddish praises G-d to the heavens and then says He's beyond all praise, why the Frierdiker Rebbe says humblene...
Street Farbrengen Episode 131 - "Why Do many Frum Jews Look So Tired?"
Why do so many sincere, mitzvah-observant Jews look like they're carrying the world?That's the question this episode refuses to let go of — and it leads somewhere unexpected. Working from a striking maamar of the Frierdiker Rebbe,...
Street Farbrengen Episode 130 - Limits and Potential? The Modern Plight of Idealism
During the 'Three Weeks', instead of dwelling only on the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash, the trauma of the destruction of the Temple and a nation's dispersion ( and consequent persecution) in Chabad we emphasize influencing the future...
Street Farbrengen Episode 129 - The Golden Medina Tefillin Toss
A familiar saying: The Jews came to America and while crossing the Atlantic they threw their tefillin overboard.The tragedy, we tell ourselves, belongs to the generation of the past.But what if it doesn't?...
Street Farbrengen Episode 128 - When Understanding Becomes a Hiding Place
Gimmel Tammuz.I've been at many farbrengens.Formed many explanations.Heard lots of words. I am feeling there is nothing left to say. I feel frozen.Maybe it's time to stop explaining....
Street Farbrengen Episode 127 - Detached from Ourselves
Yud-Beis Tammuz and Gimmel Tammuz raise a deeper question whether we experience them as history, or as something that is happening now?Our conversation moves from the meaning of a yahrzeit and Yoseir M'Bechayohu—more influential...
Street Farbrengen Episode 126 - Bitachon Is Not a Win Button
When does faith mean pushing forward—and when does it mean letting go?In this week’s Street Farbrengen, we wrestle with a simple question: when a business deal is struggling, at what point does bitachon mean persevering, and at what poi...
Street Farbrengen Episode 125 - Who is Setting My Goal?
If Chassidus teaches that every person possesses a core self, why is it often so difficult to feel it?We explore the difference between intellect and intuition, analysis and identity, and why so many of us spend our lives trying to think...
Street Farbrengen Episode 124 - If Jews Control Everything Then Act Like It
If someone says “Jews control everything,” the easy response is outrage or nervous laughter. We took it somewhere deeper: what if the only useful response is responsibility? That opens into Shavuot and the shift from “the giving of the Torah” t...
Street Farbrengen Episode 123 - Accepting Torah in Your Messy World
In this week’s Street Farbrengen , a Chassidic discourse about mitzvos being a “heavy load” unexpectedly opens into something deeply modern.an what does Kabbalas HaTorah actually mean.The discussion moves from ayahuasca retre...
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 ...