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Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American Heartland

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"My phone was blowing up from the students. "You gotta come to campus. You gotta come to campus. And no one's telling me why. And I got worried.” - Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel

"When someone enters our Chabad house, and not only the physical space of it, but in our relationship with the student, there is zero judgment and 100% acceptance... It's real, it's genuine. It's something that we learned from the Rebbe; to look at every Jew for who they are in their essence. And the trash in their life? We don't see, and we don't care." - Rebbetzin Nechama Tiechtel

"At first, Zalman's beard turned like plaid, then polka-dotted after me telling him the nasty details of the things that I was going through... And then - I'll never forget it - he said to me, "I'm jealous of you." And I was like, "What?." - Charles Goldberg

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Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don

"We drove cross country, sold my car on the East Coast, and we boarded a flight, a one way ticket, from JFK to Moscow and onto Rostov... We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim Danzinger

"I didn't speak the language, so there was a lot of hand motions and just hugging and trying to break my teeth over Russian, and them breaking their teeth over English." - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger

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Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don

"Once I had finished with Moscow, I decided, ‘Okay, I'm done with this.’ " - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger

"We have to go where we could make an impact, not necessarily to the place that is most convenient or most beautiful."
“We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim Danzinger

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This Lamplighters episode is dedicated in honor of Moshe Braun by the Braun children, who send their father all of their love and blessings on his birthday. We here at Lamplighters say “Amen” to that. Thank you very much to the Braun family for listening, and for supporting us in our mission to bring you inspiring stories of Chabad emissaries all over the world.

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The Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter Himmelman

PH: He {Rabbi Simon Jacobson} said, "A tzadik, he could do anything." You know, I said, "Well, can he fly?" 

RSJ: So I said, "I never saw him fly, to be honest.” 

PH: Which I liked. Maybe somebody could fly, he just hadn't seen it!

RSJ: “But you have to remember that, for him, walking on earth was just as miraculous as flying."

PH: And Simon looks at me, and he goes, "Understand one thing: to a tzadik, whether they're flying 30, 40, 50 feet above the ground or walking on the surface of it, it's all the same miracle."

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Ep. 34 - A searching teenager becomes a rabbi in his hometown: Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner

"AOL Messenger had something amazing. When you put in the search certain words, it was scanning all the profiles of all the members of AOL. And when you put in the word “Chabad,” or you put in the word “rabbi,” you get a lot of rabbis... And that's the way how I found Rabbi Teichtal in Berlin." - Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner

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Rabbi Mendy & Mazal Sternbach: Lagos, Nigeria - A small Jewish community in an African city of 20 million

"We had a meeting, and then we decided, "Okay, let's do that. Let's go for a year to Nigeria." My parents were not so happy about that … then. I mean, let's say you just Google "Nigeria." I'm guessing that the first few things that you will find are not something that parents want their daughter to go there. It doesn't sound so amazing. But then they had a talk with the shluchim, and they realized that we don't have terrorists walking around, and we’re pretty safe. And they were more relaxed." -- Rebbetzin Mazal Sternbach

"They see me with a yarmulke. They walk over to me and they say, "You're a Jew, you're from the Bible, you're Moses." They tell us "You're the chosen people." " -- Rabbi Mendy Sternbach

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Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz: Connecting Two Generations Of Rabbis In A Boston NICU

"Somebody please get me a Chabad rabbi. The surgery is going to take place in 2 hours. I just need someone to come and pray.” - Jacer Collins

"I ran over, dropped everything, and went to Children's Hospital, the 7th floor... She pulled me towards the crib, tiny little crib. You know, what do you say?... The only thing that came out of my mouth was the following; "G-d can do anything. Let's pray for a miracle." - Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz

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Merging Torah And Science: Lessons From The Life Of Dr. Binyomin Abrams

"I'm riding my moped down Commonwealth Avenue, and one of the students snaps a photo of me with my beard flying in the wind, tzitzis flying everywhere... They post it on Facebook and write, "So excited to be coming to Boston University. Where else are you going to see an Amish person riding a moped?" 

Then the comments start coming in. The first comment is, "Hey, I don't think the Amish are allowed to ride mopeds." And the second one was, "Hey, stop telling the Amish what they are and aren't allowed to do." And then the last comment was, "I don't think he's Amish. I think that's a Chassidic Jewish person … and I think he's our chemistry professor!"  - Dr. Binyomin Abrams

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Rabbi Dovid & Elisa Gurevich: World's First Chabad on Campus Still Going Strong

I was aware of being Jewish, but not much else.  I don't think I knew what Rosh Hashanah was, growing up... And did not have even a Bar Mitzvah." - Rabbi Dovid Gurevich

"And I saw the guy with the big beard and the hat. And I was like, "Oh, yeah, I got to talk to that guy!" - Jonathan Wilson

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Rabbi Michoel & Zisel Goldman: Everything Grows on Kauai … Why Not Yiddishkeit?

"Kauai is a magnet for the most amazing souls. And I have stories that could fill a book of interesting characters that we've met over the years." 

"My wife is a city girl. To live on Kauai was very hard for her, and she was honest about it. It was very remote, very lonely. And you're 5,000 miles away from your family. So it was very hard for her."  - Rabbi Michoel Goldman

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