Captain Mendy Avtzon is my brother and currently serves as a JAG lawyer in the United States Air Force.

In this episode, we discuss his rocky journey from shlichus in Hong Kong to yeshiva continents (and universes) away.

We discuss some things he wished he had found in yeshiva and also those things he hopes he will never lose.

*Any views expressed are personal and do not represent the views of the DoD or USAF.

Rabbi Shmully Hecht is the founder and senior Chabad rabbi at Yale, and co-founder of Shabtai, the global Jewish leadership community.

Sholom Jacobs grew up on shlichus in Glasgow, Scotland and is today a successful real estate developer in Long Island where he lives with his family.

Leibel Mangel is an IDF veteran who grew up on shlichus in Blue Ash, Ohio.

Rabbi Shmuel Wagner is a teacher at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Ocean Parkway.

We discuss the changing attitudes towards teaching and becoming a teacher.

We also discuss how one of his own teachers had a profound impact on how he dealt with his six year journey through infertility.

Eldad Drori is a Lubavitcher dentist who grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also an avid powerlifter who has been working on his strength and fitness for more than thirty years.

Rabbi Yossi Nemes is a Shliach for more than thirty years in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.

In our conversation, we discuss what it was like for him to learn in 770 back in the 80s, and what kinds of discussions about Lubavitch identity were taking place already back then.