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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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From Kabul To Fremont: An Afghan Family Moves Into A Chabad House - Rabbi Moshe & Chaya Fuss

"When Malek told his story and the details of it, how his wife was beaten and how he had no hope, hearing a first hand account, it was horrendous.. We were listening to the story, and we were all just in tears... I guess you hear these stories in the news, and you read them, and they're real and you know they're real. But, when you actually hear it from a real person and you're sitting at a table, it really breaks your heart." - Rebbetzin Chaya Fuss

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From 'Grateful Dead' fans to Chabad emissaries: Rabbi Dov Yona & Sarah Korn

"And I walk in, and I look like said “circus.” And it was a wild farbrengen. And, at four in the morning, we're singing "Ay nay, nay nay..." dancing on the tables. I couldn't help but feel these songs were inside me. .." - Rabbi Dov Yona Korn

"And that's when I really had my awakening. Because I think that sometimes your neshama just comes so full force when you're in such an alien environment, that it was like, "Whoa! Get yourself to Crown Heights, girl. What are you doing here?'" - Rebbetzin Sarah Korn

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From Revolutionary Iran To Outreach In California: Rabbi Danny Yiftach-Hashem

“Our ‘fun’ going back from school to home was to find empty shells, casings of bullets on the streets.... quite quickly, I figured out no matter what happens here, which side is going to be the winner, the chaos seems to be permanent.” - Rabbi Danny Yiftach-Hashem

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