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How many episodes does Homesick for Lubavitch have?
The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.
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November 17, 2024Ep. 47 // “Agree To Disagree” w/ Rabbi Yaakov Winner Rabbi Yaakov Winner grew up in Brooklyn and has been the mashpia in Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne, Australia for thirty five years.
In this conversation we discuss the mashpiim that most impacted Rabbi Winner as he was growing up, and how the role of a mashpia has developed over the years.We also discuss how the idea of hiskashrus and Lubavitch identity has shifted over the years, the importance of definitions and speaking with intention, and most importantly the importance of listening to and learning from one another.____This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com____Homesick for Lubavitch began a year ago as a small passion project and has grown into an important conversation in the Lubavitch community.As we look forward to year two and iyH the years after that, I invite the listeners and viewers of this podcast to take part in ensuring this podcast is sustainable and continues to grow.To help support this project please visit: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate___Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations. Business inquiries only: [email protected]Connect with BentziWebsite | https://www.yuvlamedia.com...more October 13, 2024Ep. 46 // “Taking the Rebbe At His Word” w/ Rabbi Dov Yona Korn Rabbi Dov Yona Korn grew up in Morris Plains, NJ in a “very Reform” Jewish family and is today the shliach in NYU and several other schools in the Bowery district of NYC.
In this episode, we discuss his discovering Chabad in the months after the Rebbe’s passing and the difference this timing made in his own understanding of the Rebbe and Lubavitch.
We also discuss how the Rebbe’s ideas are filtered through layers of communal understanding, and how this communal understanding is sometimes in tension with the literal understanding of the individual.
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Homesick for Lubavitch began a year ago as a small passion project and has grown into an important conversation in the Lubavitch community.As we look forward to year two and iyH the years after that, I invite the listeners and viewers of this podcast to take part in ensuring this podcast is sustainable and continues to grow.To help support this project please visit: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate____This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations. Business inquiries only: [email protected]Connect with BentziWebsite | https://www.yuvlamedia.com...more October 06, 2024Ep. 45 // "Painting The Truth I See" w/ Mendel Treitel Mendel Treitel grew up on shlichus in Montreal and is today a modern art painter living in Sydney.
In this episode, Mendel shares his journey through yeshiva and how a number of special teachers helped him reconcile his artistic disposition with the norms of the Yeshiva.
We discuss the challenges in being both a chossid and an artist, the question of individuality and how the art a chossid paints today should be different and unique from the art a chossid painted generations ago.
Mendel's work can be found at:https://www.mendeltreitel.com
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Homesick for Lubavitch began a year ago as a small passion project and has grown into an important conversation in the Lubavitch community.
As we look forward to year two and iyH the years after that, I invite the listeners and viewers of this podcast to take part in ensuring this podcast is sustainable and continues to grow.
To help support this project please visit: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate
____
This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.
Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.
Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.
For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com
____
Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.
Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations.
Business inquiries only: [email protected]
Connect with Bentzi
Website | https://www.yuvlamedia.com
...more September 29, 2024Ep. 44 // "Rosh Hashana 5785" w/ Rabbi Yosef Katzman Rabbi Yosef Katzman grew up and lives in Crown Heights, where for many years he hosted the "Cable to Jewish Life" television show.
In this episode, Rabbi Katzman reflects on different pivot points through the years and how these relate to the community's changing attitude towards asking questions.
He also reflects on Rosh Hashana "back in the day" and where this leaves us going into this new year.
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Homesick for Lubavitch began a year ago as a small passion project and has grown into an important conversation in the Lubavitch community.
As we look forward to year two and iyH the years after that, I invite the listeners and viewers of this podcast to take part in ensuring this podcast is sustainable and continues to grow.
To help support this project please visit: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate
____
This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.
Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.
Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.
For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com
____
Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.
Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations.
Business inquiries only: [email protected]
Connect with Bentzi
Website | https://www.yuvlamedia.com
...more September 22, 2024Ep. 43 // "The Narrative of Chassidus" w/ Rabbi Naftali Silberberg Rabbi Naftali Silberberg grew up on shlichus in Detroit and today lives in Crown Heights where he is the co-director of curriculum for JLI and host of the Let's Talk Tanya podcast.
In this episode, we trace Naftali's years in yeshiva that took him to Oholei Torah in the late 80s and then to Kfar Chabad, where he discovers a life long love - almost despite the yeshiva - for the study of Tanya.
We discuss what makes the narrative of Tanya so unusual and how a thoughtful study of the Torah Shebichsav of Chassidus makes it more, not less, relevant for our own day and age.
Presented in honor of 18 Elul - the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and the Baal HaTanya.
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Homesick for Lubavitch began a year ago as a small passion project and has grown into an important conversation in the Lubavitch community.
As we look forward to year two and iyH the years after that, I invite the listeners and viewers of this podcast to take part in ensuring this podcast is sustainable and continues to grow.
To help support this project please visit: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate
____
This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.
Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.
Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.
For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com
____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.
Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations.
Business inquiries only: [email protected]
Connect with Bentzi
Website | https://www.yuvlamedia.com
...more September 15, 2024Ep. 42 // "The Rebbe's Doctor" w/ Rabbi Michoel Seligson Rabbi Michoel Seligson is a teacher and author who lives in Crown Heights. He is also the son of Dr. Avrohom Abba Seligson, a"h, who was known as the Rebbe's doctor.
In this episode, Rabbi Seligson shares his father's amazing story of becoming a doctor as a frum Jew in pre-war Europe, his escape to Shanghai and the role he played in saving the Jewish refugees over the course of the war, and his eventual arrival to Brooklyn where he developed a close, private and miraculous bond with the Lubavitcher Rebbe.We discuss his father's unique style of being a both a chossid and a doctor, where amongst many others things he showed a true example of what it means to be a "rofeh yedid."____Homesick for Lubavitch began a year ago as a small passion project and has grown into an important conversation in the Lubavitch community.As we look forward to year two and iyH the years after that, I invite the listeners and viewers of this podcast to take part in ensuring this podcast is sustainable and continues to grow.To help support this project please visit: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations. Business inquiries only: [email protected]Connect with BentziWebsite | https://www.yuvlamedia.com...more September 08, 2024Ep. 41 // "More Needs To Be Demanded" w/ Rabbi Levi Avtzon Rabbi Levi Avtzon grew up in Crown Heights and lives today in Johannesburg, South Africa where he is a rabbi at the Linksfield Synagogue.
In this episode we continue the conversation in recent episodes about the tension between the soft and demanding voices in our community.We discuss the changing narratives in the Lubavitch community and how past demand for conformity has now given way to a therapeutic mindset, and we debate whether or not this change is in fact a true change at all.____This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations. Business inquiries only: [email protected]Connect with BentziWebsite | https://www.yuvlamedia.com...more September 01, 2024Ep. 40 // "May We See The Rebbe" w/ Mrs. Tzivia Jacobson Mrs. Tzivia Jacobson grew up in in the 1930s in a Lubavitch family in Kutaisi, Georgia under Soviet rule.
Nobody in her family had ever seen a picture of the Rebbe at that point, let alone met him, but every night her mother would put her to bed with a blessing that one day they would see the Rebbe.Her family would eventually escape the USSR and make their way to Brooklyn where Mrs. Jacobson would be one of a handful to see the beginnings of the Lubavitch story in Crown Heights and up to this very day.Along the way, Mrs. Jacobson and her husband, Mr. Gershon Jacobson a"h, would found the yiddish newspaper The Algemeiner Journal and pioneer a new way of communicating the Rebbe's ideas with the broader world.In this episode, we discuss her growing up in the Soviet Union, what changed for her family and community when they moved to the United States but also what stayed - and always stays - the same.__
This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.
Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.
Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com
Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations.
Business inquiries only: [email protected] with BentziWebsite | https://www.yuvlamedia.com
...more August 25, 2024Ep. 39 // "Working With What I Have" w/ R' Yossel Mochkin Reb Yossel Mochkin grew up in Crown Heights in the 1960s and 1970s, living in the cloistered world of his immigrant parents and their friends but surrounded by a fast changing and exciting world around him.
Never finding it easy to fit in to the milieu around him, Yossel had to ask on his own questions about the direction his life was to take. These questions were never fully resolved, but a yechidus with the Rebbe gave Yossel a blueprint his is still continuing to implement.In this conversation we discuss the never ending journey of finding one's place, the private wrestling with one's faith and the ability to grow through it all....more August 18, 2024Ep. 38 // “Finding the Rebbe’s Softer Voice” w/ Rabbi Berry Farkash Rabbi Berry Farkash is a Shliach in Issaquah, Washington and director of Chabad of the Central Cascades.
Several years ago, a local crisis led Berry into the world of psychotherapy where he became a certified clinical psychotherapist and practices Hypnotherapy and other Transpersonal modalities. Today all of his clients are fellow Lubavitchers, many of them shluchim.In this conversation, we discuss his own journey toward finding the Rebbe’s softer voice and the need for forgiveness and compassion.We also discuss the importance of companionship - especially highlighted by the Rebbe’s “bakosho nafshis” to find a mashpia, or in other words, to talk about real and weighty issues with someone else.____This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: https://www.thisworldisagarden.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media.Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories of thoughtful and heartfelt organizations. Business inquiries only: [email protected]Connect with BentziWebsite | https://www.yuvlamedia.com...more
FAQs about Homesick for Lubavitch:
How many episodes does Homesick for Lubavitch have?
The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.
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