This week on Street Farbrengen, Zacharya pushes back on something Reuven brought to the farbrengen that many may feel but rarely say out loud: Is the Rebbe the mission?

We go straight for the jugular:

 What happens when the Rebbe — or “being Lubavitch” — quietly becomes the goal instead of the path?

 When wearing the right slogan, screaming the right lines, doing Chitas and Rambam, or learning the maamar becomes the destination… but nothing actually shifts inside — not my emotions, not my inner world, not my sense of self-agency?

Have we, without saying it, made the Rebbe into the one who is supposed to “do it for us,” and in the process stepped out of our own shlichus?

In this farbrengen, we sit with the uncomfortable questions:

• What’s the difference between following the Rebbe and making the Rebbe the mission?
• How do you live with real bittul without becoming emotionally powerless or “a nothing”?
• Why does Chassidus insist that dirah b’tachtonim happens inside you — not instead of you?

If you’ve ever felt inspired by a sicha or maamar and then watched the fire evaporate by the next morning…
 or if you’ve secretly wondered:

 “Am I a chossid — or just a cheerleader with pom-poms?”
— this episode is for you.