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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
80 episodes
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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Street Farbrengen Episode 77 - “Through the looking glass of Leaving Egypt "
We enter the starting gate of the season of leaving Egypt. A Chassid asks him or herself “ what area of slavery do I live in?” Living in slavery is also formed in the mind, with a picture you have of yoursel...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 76 - “Ad D”lo Yadah” - Not Just Another L'Chaim at the Pub!
Present day culture has the Purim bright lights highlighting the Mitzvah of “ mitzvah to intoxicate” (with wine -Rashi)The dropped walls that foster camaraderie around the Purim feast is unique. The costumes all...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 75 - "Of Carpets and Kitchens"
We live in an economy that a hundred years ago would be viewed as a fantasy! Nevertheless it’s possible to have “wall to wall carpets and California kitchens” and remain a pauper.The difference lays betwee...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 74- “The Yud Shevat Aliya - A Garden of Delight or A Road of Angst
Do you know people - or maybe even you - who days before are anxious about scheduling their aliyah for the Shabbos before or Shabbos Yud Shevat? Reuven floats a question on this week's Street Fabrengen:&nbs...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 73- “Yud Shevat makes sense?"
Yud Shevat makes sense ?Do you sometimes feel that those special days connected to our Rebbes are “ blasé” or confuse you or maybe give a twinge of anxiety? How do you not feel tzaaamished and feelings of senseless overw...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 72 - “When Spirituality is a Run from My Reality"
Action with mitzvahs makes His Ratzon, Will.Not through the spirituality of intention...Maamar 5666There is “The Thinking Mind” which never stops, especially when it faces the joy of simplicity! Is the search for re...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 71 - “The only thing to fear...is fear itself"?
“ I sought out G-d and He answered me….. He saved me from all my terrors”Tehillim - Psalms 34."He even saved me from all me fears" (Commentaries)Dovid was no stranger to conflict, war, famine, and more. He does...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 70 - “I am a Chassid who is Trans......."
This episode of Street Farbrengen takes a different look at the time of Hey Teves through Yud Shvat. The relationship between Chassid and Rebbe can be demanding and complex. At its core is "the Rebbe is my Rebbe but am I a Chassid?...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 69 - “Time for a Drum Circle?"
We have seen an uptick of Chassidim looking for direction and help in unfamiliar places: sweat lodges, drum circles and offices of psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other wellness oriented sources.This brings up the question what is t...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 68 - Rebbe: Doctrine or Challenge?
What is the relevance of Yud Tes Kislev in this generation? Reuven has the nerve to suggest “ don’t go to a Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen because you feel should.” And, if you ask who the heck am I to make ...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 67 - Spiritual and Mature Part 1
Life begins small and in time grows into maturity. There is spiritual maturity and immaturity as well.I can live with G-d with the neediness of a child or the sophistication and maturity of a grown adult.Leaving the womb o...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 66 - Simchas Torah - Bitul - It's All About You
We often hear that a Chassid is one who is butil - self nullified. Is the emphasis on bitul the nullification of the negative or the spotlight on the possible?Simchas Torah is about the possible - in Torah and in yourself. This is cause...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 65 - Yom Kippur Is Not Your One Night Stand!
What happens after Neilah? Does it disappear as quick as it came?Yom Kippur is not a one night stand! Once you touch soul, you can’t stay away! But you do need a mindset that supports Neilah and Napoleons March.It’s the attitude...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 64 - Create. Stop Becoming!
It is Kabbalistic thinking that the creation “recedes” on Rosh Hashana and awaits the prayers and the sound of the Shofar to begin creation anew.Not only is the world waiting for a spectacular creation for the next year,each i...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 63 - G-d and My Therapist
Chassidic transformation ( avodah) boils down to molding G-d into your best friend. More so , G-d is your spouse as alluded in many ways beginning in Shir Hashirim, Song of Songs..But your therapist? Street Farbrengen...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 62 - Drowning in Raindrops of Shoulds
Elul and Tishrei are a basketful of obligation. Is that my focus at this time of year? There is another option.Elicit the power of the 'one who is obligated' - after all, I've been asked to make it all ha...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 61 - Is Avodah Today Only For Those Who Travel In Rarified Air?
You can set the bar so high that no one shows up for the track meet!Have chassidim inadvertently set the cruising altitude so high that we don’t join the voyage to begin with Reuven and Zacharia tackle Avodah in 5784....
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Street Farbrengen Episode 60 - "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Elul. Chabad owns the month, characterizing it as “the King is in the field.”Is the King not “in the field” all your round? What does this month mean to you and me? What am I supposed to do?Reuven and Zachariah work through the “m...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 59 - An Extra Piece of Kugel?
There is an emphasis in Chassidic literature on limiting one’s participation with the physical environment, to measure what is necessary and what is extra and luxury.We call it eskofia, holding back.Is this practice rel...
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Street Farbrengen Episode 58 - Don't Let It Bring You Down...It's Only Castles Burning
After fire destroys his home Reuven wonders about his calm and joy. Shouldn't I feel guilty or some sort of contriteness for some actions that led to a fire burning down my house? Zacharia and Reuven talk fire, Tisha B'av ...
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