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Rabbi Shmuly Metzger is a shliach in Manhattan, where he runs Chabad Sutton in the Midtown district. A couple miles away is the famous Lubavitch neighborhood of Crown Heights, where Shmuly grew up in both its mythological and concrete past.

In this episode, we discuss his childhood in the presence of the Rebbe but also the tensions on the Crown Heights streets, how the street level and heavenly narratives diverged but also someone worked together.

We also discuss the challenge of holding on to an ever changing past where memories are fluid, and how those memories continue to shape us even as we shape them.

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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.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

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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

Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate____Yehoshua November is a poet who lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate

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Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin PhD lives in Teaneck where he is an author, columnist and host of the 18Forty podcast.

In this episode, we discuss the condition of homesickness across different parts of the religious Jewish community in the United States, the inherent problems but also the possible blessings to be found in it.

We also discuss how different one’s view of some of Lubavitch’s most interesting questions seem depending on where one looks at them from.

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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.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

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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

Rabbi Elisha Pearl grew up in Flatbush and has spent the last few years studying in the Judean hills, which is where he wrote his groundbreaking book, "Make Peace," which explores the Rebbe's strategic vision for lasting peace in Israel.

We were going to discuss the book, but ended up talking about how he found himself it writing it in the first place, how as a young Lubavitch boy his parents moved away from Crown Heights to Flatbush and enrolled him in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin, setting him on a trajectory of being a Lubavitcher individual studying outside the Lubavitch system, including Yeshiva University and various Dati Leumi yeshivos in Israel.

We discussed the vantage point afforded to someone who sees things from both the inside and the outside, the challenges that come with it, and what he sees now in what he describes as the "religious revival" taking place in Chabad.

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.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

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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

Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon is my father and the first shliach in the Far East, which is where he and my mother founded Chabad of Hong Kong and China forty years ago.

Fifteen year ago, Nissen Goldman was a teenage son of a rabbi in Johannesburg, South Africa finding his own way.

After leaving high school, Nissen ended up spending time in Cape Town where his sister and brother in law where on shlichus and ended up in a relationship with the daughter of their shul’s president.

Fast forward fifteen years, and Nissen is on his shlichus at University of Cape Town with his then girlfriend and now wife, and has come to the kinnus for the first time as a shliach, together with their eldest son.

In this episode, we discuss Nissen’s improbable journey away from shlichus and back, how one can end up in the same and yet completely different place, and the value and risks of writing your own story.

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

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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

Rabbi Nissan Mangel was ten years old when he came face to face with Dr. Joseph Mengele at the gates of Auschwitz and was miraculously spared the fate of too many others.

Rabbi Yaakov Winner grew up in Brooklyn and has been the mashpia in Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne, Australia for thirty five years.

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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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

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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

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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