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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.
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Street Farbrengen Episode #147: Have we forgotten how to fight?
Street Farbrengen | Rosh Chodesh Kislev A young man confided to me that he no longer davens, no minyans. Instead, he meditates. This sparks a provocative…
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Street Farbrengen Episode #146: When America Stops Feeling Safe
Have you ever loved someone who walked out on you? That’s how I felt the day after the elections. I felt such anxiety I cannot remember feeling before. I had…
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Street Farbrengen Episode #144: Chassidic Intimacy and Collecting Maamarim
A Chassid overhears a Chabad farbrengen discussing the deepest mysteries of G-dliness. Fascinated, he thinks, “If talking about G-d is so wonderful, imagine…
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Street Farbrengen #143: Holy Unrest, Anxiety with Silence
Riots in the streets. Hostility toward Jews. The world is restless. Are we? There is a holy unrest: refuse to accept chaos and golus as the world’s natural…
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Street Farbrengen Episode #142: Stop Living in a Straight Line
What if the past isn't really behind us, and the future isn't something we have to wait for? With Tishrei behind us and the ordinary pressures of life…
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Street Farbrengen Episode #141 Pusshed by Pain or Pulled by my Dreams?
On the night of his birthday, Zacharia asks Reuven what he'd tell his 20-year-old self. Turning the question around Reuven says he's hearing what that…
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Street Farbrengen Episode # 140: A Dead Ram's Horn that Runs The Universe Makes no Sense!!
Are Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and the days in between about becoming worthy? Isn't this what "better through regret" means? In this post-Rosh Hashanah…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 114 - Did G-d leave your room?
G-d is our koach? Most people understand G-d gives you talents, strength, opportunity — the abilities you use to succeed. But Chassidus suggests something far…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 113 - Slave or Prisoner?
“When Adar enters, we increase in joy.” Rashi explains that the joy comes because we are approaching Purim and Pesach. In other words, Adar begins a…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 112 - Stop Drifting.
Stop Drifting. If you’ve been reacting instead of choosing — this episode is for you. Zion Adar isn’t sentimental. It’s power. Mazalo gavar — your inner root…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 111 - Pareto Principle and Adar - 80/20 rule 80% of outcomes (results) come from 20% of causes - Show up Warm
Adar marks more than a turning point in Jewish history. Chassidus teaches that Purim represents a turning point in Jewish inner history. At Har Sinai, the…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 110 - Life is a Farbrengen. Are You Walking Out Elevated?
This week on Street Farbrengen, we ask a question that somehow took us 100+ episodes to articulate: Why are we called Street Farbrengen — when we’re sitting at…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 109 - G-d and the Mafia
What happens when we start treating Hashem like a mafia boss? You pay your dues. You keep your side of the deal. And then the “laundromat” still burns down. Is…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 108 - Can You Nullify a Self You Don’t Know?
This Week’s Conversation Does knowing yourself contradict bitul (self-nullification)? This week’s Street Farbrengen circles a tension many of us feel but…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 107 - G-d. My Critic or Companion?
This week’s Street Farbrengen began with a story that shook the room. A man who lost his son. A man who later experienced something that felt like an open…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 106 - Are You Allowed to Breathe?
This week’s Street Farbrengen goes right into the fire. What’s really behind the controversy over breathwork in Crown Heights? Is the issue the practice—or…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 105 - Naiveté and the Struggle for Real
I look around and see so many people struggling to stay inspired — in Yiddishkeit, with Chassidus and the Rebbe. And yet, after decades, I still feel a fire…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 104 - Chassidus has Everything - Fact or Fiction?
We dive into a provocative statement you’ve probably heard in Hasidic circles: “CHASSIDUS has everything.” What does that actually mean? Does Chasidic thought…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 103 - Hey Teves - not who won? but Who flourishes?
The Rebbe said it clearly on Hey Teves: the books are talking to you — and they’re waiting to be expanded. Didan Natzach means learning. Not celebrating Torah…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 102 - Life Above Nature
We can read Hanukkah as a turnaround story: oppression, resistance, triumph. Street Farbrengen questions that framing entirely. The Maccabees didn’t fight…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 95 - “Open the door and Windows"
When 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 dirah…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?…