Street Farbrengen Episode # 137: Rosh Hashana - Is G-d Waiting to Punish You?

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen · Aug 27, 2026 · 41m · transcript

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 segulos magic potions, more blessings to make it safely through another year?

Have we taken the language of schar v’onesh—reward and punishment—to make G-d into the 'principal standing over us with a yardstick?

In this episode of Street Farbrengen, Reuven and Zacharia dig into the emotional picture of G-d that our contemporary society and experience creates within us.

They…