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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 and the Alter Rebbe. But why birthdays? What does birth itself tell us about the the essence of what is Chassidus?

Maybe the answer is startlingly simple: Before you're born, your life comes through someone else. After birth, the life is yours.

In this episode of Street Farbrengen, we wrestle with spiritual independence, personal ratzon, the difference between humility and…

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