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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 86 - 99% inspiration?
The 12th of Tammuz highlights courage and sacrifice in the fight for your values and truth - no matter the size and authority of your opponent! In this episode…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 85 - Forward Momentum
Chassidic circles stress the story of the spies' reluctance to enter Israel as the choice for spiritual isolation and comfort over the task of grappling with…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 84 - “Endlessness"
We often call success winning, like when you cross the goal line. We look to the end of the line, to know the end game, and to finding our cherished goal at…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 83 - “Are you Rocking it?"
A Street Farbengen is a focus on the road; on the path to take after all the talk and exchange between friends. Reuven and Zacharia continue the focus on Rabbi…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 82 - "Indented Rocks"
Rabbi Akiva saw drops of water falling on a stone making a deep hole. What power there is in a drop of water,” thought Rabbi Akiva. “Could my stony heart ever…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 81 - Iyar's Chassidic Health Crisis
The letters of the month Iyar are an acronym for “I am G-d your healer.” What is your attitude towards health? Do you believe that good health is a gift from…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”…
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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…
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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?…
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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 5666 There is “The Thinking Mind” which never stops…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.”…
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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…
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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?…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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'…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 57 - I Detest Fasts!
We open the closet door and let out the secret everybody knows: that the fast days of 17 Tammuz and Tisha B” Av are the essence of Judaism by rote!! Why do we…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 56 - In Prison Bars, Wings of Flight
Every Geulah is fashioned from a prison. “The Rebbe # Tammuz 5710” Zechariah suggests that “prison” is associated with “Nisayon,” a test, different then…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 55 - Rebbe and Chassid Today
Gimmel Tammuz is a real modern challenge for the serious Chassid. How do I relate to who and what is the Rebbe himself beyond ‘scholar’? Is Rebbe the writings…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 54 - Chabad: The Rebbe's PR Firm?
Zacharia and Reuven prepare for Gimmel Tammuz.... Why does it feel that Gimmel Tammuz is an exercise in renewing my membership in the Chabad club? Is the…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 53 - Is it Time to Take The Battle into the City?
How deep a dive inside must I take, and how specific do I engage with my darker side? Do I need to know the source of why I am triggered by something or why I…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 52 - I Am So Burnt Out I Can't Even Think of Pnimius
The blessing given for Shavuous is to receive the Torah B'pnimius - integrate the Torah from within. What exactly is this core that integrates this Torah? How…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 51 - Switching from Motivator to Mentor
Zacharia and Reuven take a different look on the day of the 28th of Nissan. In place of a response to the message of the day by finding ways to convince the…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 50 - Pesach Cleaning: Slavery or Freedom?
In this week’s Street Farbrengen we ponder freedom. Are we really free if we are in the habit to make weak or wrong choices ? Can we be free if we are afraid…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 49 - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive, Adar, and Chassidic "Military Life'
“The older I get and the more Chassidus I digest the more I realize just how lazy and stupid I can be...And that’s going to change in Adar. I have all the…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 48 - Fun Is Not Joy and Discipline Isn’t A Dirty Word
Do you consider yourself a disciplined individual? Can I be disciplined and also be in a joyous state? Welcome to Street Farbrengen 48 - Fun is not Joy and…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 47 - “Truth or Consequences” - Tell the truth?
Does G-d need you as his defense lawyer? Does truth need you to defend it? Do we move forward when we “drink the Koolaid?” How honest do we be with our…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 46 - Let’s Move to How
A fundamental slice of Chabad life is action. We know the what - hiskashrus to the Rebbe , learning sichos and maamarim etc. But how often do we attend…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 45 - Yud Shevat - What is Real?
“I admit I have a PHD in sarcasm” Reuven tells Zacharia. The use of sarcasm at some chassidic gatherings is common enough to be a concern for discussion on…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 44 - Religion, Tunnels, Chassid and Rebbe, The 770 Tunnel Affair.
Reuven opens tonight's farbrengen with the theme song from a hit movie during the 1960’s, “The Good The Bad and The Ugly.” "It came up for me as part of our…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 43 - Delusions and Dreams...?
Religious people in general , Chassidim in particular, and Chabad Chassidim specifically, are often accused of being dreamers. Often enough they even may be…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 42 - The Kulture and Kitrig!
Culture: “The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.” What is the modern day Chabad…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 41 - Let's Meet G-d
What is your framework which contributes to your approach to Chassidus? Is Chassidus a system of thought? Is Chassidus the system for personal transformation ?…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 40 - 19 Kislev - and the modern Heavenly Accusation
"That year, during Tishrei, the Rebbe was extremely joyful. He mentioned to the chassidim who were close to him that he had not yet made a seudas hoda'a for…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 39 - “Passing the Baton”- the 9th and 10th of Kislev
One generation comes and another goes. Do the expectations to be considered a chassid from one Rebbe to the next stay the same (and get increased) or is the…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 38 - Practical Relevance
Is there any practical relevance to having unlimited potential when it seems that nobody has attained it? (How much do we ask about the relevance of…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 37 - Your Inside Story; Embrace your Paradox
Picking up where we left off last Farbrengen, we continue about living with extremes both within and on the outside . Does cancel culture apply when one side…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 36 - Theology and Reality
How do you deal with the stark reality of war while miles away from the rockets and the fighting? Do you seek ways to explain the evils with Torah sources…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 35 - Going From Should To Could
The military runs “ a post mortem” report on military operations performed in battle . In this week of Ki Tetzei - when you go to battle- Reuven and Zacharia…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 34 - Control Your State - Love and Fear As a Daily Practice?
Chassidus focuses extensively on the emotions: How does mind interact with emotions, what is the source of mind and heart? What sort of emotional response is…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 33 - Simple but Deep. Jumping past the Blintz.
The hallmark of Matan Torah is the stance the nation chose na'ase v'nishma. As I prepare for Shavuous this year, in what way do I reignite “we will act and…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 32 - 28 Nissan. Bike Solo. Never Alone
The 28 Nissan Bike Ride Do you remember learning to ride a bicycle, when your coach/trainer let go of his or her grip on the seat? " I am solo!" When you…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 31 - Is Unbounded Energy A Pipe Dream?
Countless teachings of an unprecedented style and amount. Correspondence through letters are in the hundreds of thousands. Hours of private audience with…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 30 - Pesach Rolls Into Town and It’s Time To Get Out of Egypt?
What’s the process here? How is it that every year I feel like the last? What am I missing here? Can Pesach be more than a Jewish thanksgiving for an ancestral…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 29 - Mountain Living? Time to make Some Purim Choices
Do you ever run your life like there is a mountain over your head? Habits become the driver and routine becomes your chariot? Zecharia want to know what's on…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 28 - Learning Chassidus - AI or Conscious Perception?
The essence of all Chassidic Red Letter Calendar dates is Rebbe and Chassidus. The two are united, as the Rebbe once said: the spokesperson for Chabad is the…
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Street Farbrengen Episode 27 - Can I Be A Chassid and Be Me?
How do you define being a chassid? Is a chassid defined by who the Rebbe is or who he or she is? Sounds like a strange question. In truth it's important to…