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Homesick for Lubavitch

An exploration of Lubavitch identity in 2023, hosted by Bentzi Avtzon.

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S1 · E103
Yesterday · 2 hr 8 min
Ep. 103 // "Living On A Verse" w/ Rabbi Gershon Avtzon
Rabbi Gershon Avtzon grew up in Crown Heights and lives today in Cincinatti where he is the founder of Yeshivas Lubavitch.In this episode he shares his growing up in Crown Heights in the 1980s and the changes in the decades that followed.We discuss the resulting changes in education and how this impacts how students are taught to experience reality.____This week's episode is sponsored by Moully Arts.Join the many shluchim who are raising the bar for what a public menorah can look like with Yitzchok Moully's new Public Art Menorah.This new menorah is both modern and iconic and can be used as both a seasonal as well as a permanent installation.For more details, please contact Yitzchok at 908 448 1417 or visit MoullyArt.com____Support the upcoming mega series of HFL Australia at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/australiaIf you would like to dedicate or sponsor an episode please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____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
S1 · E102
November 1 · 1 hr 19 min
Ep. 102 // "The Army in Stamford Hill" w/ Rabbi Gedalia Potash
Rabbi Gedalia Potash grew up in the 1980s in the Lubavitch community of Stamford Hill and today is a shliach in the Noe Valley area of San Francisco. In this episode, he shares his memories growing up as a boy in London, the chassidic atmosphere and sense of connection to 770, and his regular visits that culminated with the special Tishrei of 1991. We discuss the importance of living in the current moment, and the way memories can change how we view the past. ____ This week's episode is sponsored by Moully Arts. Join the many shluchim who are raising the bar for what a public menorah can look like with Yitzchok Moully's new Public Art Menorah. This new menorah is both modern and iconic and can be used as both a seasonal as well as a permanent installation. For more details, please contact Yitzchok at 908 448 1417 or visit MoullyArt.com ____ Support the upcoming mega series of HFL Australia at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/australia If you would like to dedicate or sponsor an episode please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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
October 25 · 1 hr 44 min
Ep. 101 // "The Two Worlds" w/ Rabbi Betzalel Marinovsky
Rabbi Betzalel Marinovsky grew up as a young boy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan under the rule of the Soviet Union until an earthquake allowed his family to emigrate to Israel. In this episode, he shares the unbelievable story of faith and survival of the Marinovsky family through the invasion of the Germans in World War II and then decades under communism, supported by the belief that there are two worlds. We discuss his eventual move to the United States to study in Morristown and eventually his move to Houston to serve as a shliach, which eventually brought him full circle when Russian immigrants arrived after the fall of the Soviet Union. ____ Support the upcoming mega series of HFL Australia at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/australiaIf you would like to dedicate or sponsor an episode please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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
S1 · E100
September 6 · 1 hr 34 min
Ep. 100 // "LIVE Q&A" moderated by Shaul Wolf
To celebrate the 100th episode, HFL hosted a live event in Crown Heights attended by friends and listeners of the podcast with a Q&A of HFL host, Bentzi Avtzon, moderated by Shaul Wolf.In this episode, we share the recording of the Q&A where Bentzi answers questions about the inspiration behind the podcast and lessons he learned along the way.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____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
August 30 · 2 hr 3 min
Ep. 99 // "What Will Bring Moshiach?" w/ Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
Rabbi Heschel Greenberg is the rabbi of The Jewish Discovery Center in Buffalo where he is a shliach for more than fifty years. In this episode, Rabbi Greenberg shares memories of his father and late Rosh Yeshiva in the Morristown Yeshiva, Rabbi Meir Greenberg a"h. He discusses growing up in a home surrounded by Torah learning and the lessons he took with him to his studies in Lubavitch yeshivos and beyond. ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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. You can now bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community. For more info please visit: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden
S1 · E98
August 23 · 1 hr 17 min
Ep. 98 // "Montreal Shlichus" w/ Rabbi Berel Mochkin
Rabbi Berel Mochkin grew up in Tashkent and came to Montreal as a boy where his father, Reb Peretz Mochkin, served as the community mashpia. In this episode, Rabbi Mochkin shares how activities of Tzach that he began running as a bochur became a city wide shlichus that has now marked more than sixty years.He shares how on more than one occasion the Rebbe told him to stay in Montreal and how the mission that began then continues to this very day.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____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
S1 · E97
August 16 · 1 hr 43 min
Ep. 97 // "One Student At A Time" w/ Rabbi Uri Perlman
Rabbi Uri Perlman grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania and founded the Wilkes Yeshiva which is now based in the nearby town of Canadensis. In this episode, he shares what it was like growing up in a small town community and his crisis of identity that ultimately led him on the journey that would culminate with him opening the yeshiva. We discuss how the position and tone of yeshivas towards bochurim are changing and need to change more even if the core mission stays the same. ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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
S1 · E96
August 9 · 2 hr 15 min
Ep. 96 // "My Journey to Bittul" w/ Rabbi Moshe Genuth
Rabbi Moshe Genuth grew up in Cleveland and Eretz Yisroel and today works as a secretary to Rabbi Yitzchok Ginsburgh at the Gal Einai Institute. In this episode, he shares his own journey to the study of chassidus, his initial hesitations to becoming a chossid and what led him to move past them. We discuss his thinking on ego and bittul and how this translates into a world immersed in self-reflection and inner dialogue. ____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____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
S1 · E95
August 2 · 2 hr 13 min
Ep. 95 // "The Years Gone By" w/ Rabbi Zalman Lieberow
Rabbi Zalman Lieberow grew up in London, England and is a shliach today in Flatbush.In this episode, we discuss his memories of how his grandfather, Reb Mendel Futerfas, dealt with the tragic events that shaped Zalman's early life.We also discuss his arriving to 770 as a bochur in the late 80s and the events in the subsequent years that shaped his perspective.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____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
S1 · E94
July 26 · 1 hr 34 min
Ep. 94 // "Talking the Unfathomable" w/ Rabbi Mendy Katz
Rabbi Mendy Katz grew up in Miami Beach as part of what was then a very small Chabad community and lives today in Surfside where he works as a director of programs at The Aleph Institute.In this episode, we discuss his growing up in Miami Beach and leaving in the mid 1980s to study in yeshiva in Los Angeles and then Crown Heights.We discuss the euphoric atmosphere in Crown Heights in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the devastating impact of the events that followed.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____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
S1 · E93
July 19 · 1 hr 21 min
Ep. 93 // "American Chinuch" w/ Rabbi Herschel Lustig
Rabbi Herschel Lustig was the dean of Oholei Torah Yeshiva, the largest Chabad boys school in America, for more than forty years and today serves as the Dean Emeritus. In this episode, he shares his own personal background of how his family came to Lubavitch and how he studied in different yeshivos before coming to 770. He shares memories from the formative years of Oholei Torah yeshiva that began as a very small cheder, and the input he received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Hodakov in how to build a new kind of school with old home values but in America. ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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
S1 · E92
July 12 · 1 hr 46 min
Ep. 92 // "One More Bochur in Yeshiva" w/ Reb Yitzchok Gniwisch
Reb Yitzchok Gniwisch survived World War II as a young infant together with his father and lives today in Montreal with his wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. In this episode, he shares his heartwarming story of the years after the war where he was welcomed into the world of Lubavitch by countless individuals who were excited to have "one more bochur in yeshiva." This is a story about a world of kindness, generosity and friendship. ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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
S1 · E91
July 5 · 1 hr 24 min
Ep. 91 // "Where Are Today's Baal Teshuvas?" w/ Rabbi Ronnie Fine
Rabbi Ronnie Fine is a shliach in the Queen Mary neighborhood of Montreal.He grew up in Toronto in a secular Israeli family, and his exploration as a teenager took him to Ohr Sameach in Jerusalem, then to Ner Yisroel in Toronto where he met Rabbi Ezra Schochet who was teaching there at the time.In this episode, Rabbi Fine compares the journeys of the baal teshuvas of his time with those of today, namely the difference between changing your life because of an idea or because of your identity.Rabbi Fine's Shiurim can be found online at: https://www.youtube.com/tanyarabbi____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____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
June 28 · 2 hr 15 min
Ep. 90 // "A Bochur in the 60s" w/ Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz
Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz is the dean of Academie Beis Rivka in Montreal, Canada. In this episode, he shares his memories growing up in Paris in the years following World War II before moving with his family to Brooklyn, NY where he studied in the famous Bedford and Dean yeshiva and then 770. He talks about being part of the first group of bochurim sent as shluchim to the Yeshiva Gedolah in Melbourne, Australia, and what it was like to be a Lubavitch bochur in the 1960s. ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: hello@yuvlamedia.com____ 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
June 17 · 2 hr 38 min
Ep. 89 // "In A Distant Place" w/ Rabbi Lazer Gurkow
Rabbi Lazer Gurkow is a shliach in London, Ontario where he serves as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Tefilah. In this episode, Rabbi Gurkow shares his memories of growing up in Boston in the home of two parents who themselves grew up in the Soviet Union, and his leaving home at six years old to study in Brooklyn. He discusses the difference between being a parent then and today, how a chossid has to adapt to his times, and how this informs his own perspective today. ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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 ____ 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: hello@yuvlamedia.com Connect with Bentzi Website | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com
S1 · E88
April 12 · 2 hr 41 min
Ep. 88 // "A Baal Teshuva's Eyes" w/ Reb Simcha Gottleib
Reb Simcha Gottleib lives today in North Miami Beach where he practices Chinese medicine and works on different literary projects. Back in the 1960s he lived on a probiotic farm in Binghamton, NY where he and his friends sought refuge from the excesses of both the cultural standard bearers and the hippies that sought to tear them down. It was there that he met Reb Meir Abuhesera which would lead him and many of his friends to end up, of all places, in the Lubavitch community of Crown Heights. In this episode Simcha shares his fascinating journey and we discuss the gift of openness the chassidic newcomer has and the challenge of retaining it as time goes on. ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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 ____ 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: hello@yuvlamedia.com Connect with Bentzi Website | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com
S1 · E87
March 29 · 1 hr 20 min
Ep. 87 // "99 Years of Lubavitch" w/ Mrs. Hadassah Carlebach
Mrs Hadassah Carlebach was born in the Soviet Union less than a decade after the Communist revolution to Rabbi and Mrs Shneur Zalman Schneerson, second cousins of the Rebbe Rayatz.In this episode, she shares vivid memories of growing up during those times, as observed from the unique vantage point of her family, before leaving for Paris with her family just several years before World War II.She speaks about immigrating to the United States after the war, the visits she made to the Rebbetzins as one of their few surviving cousins, and her impressions of a Lubavitch that was changing but at the same time was very much the same.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Thank you to Reuven Medalie for hosting this conversation at one of his rentals just a block from 770. To find out more about renting this space for your next say in Crown Heights, please contact him at: 646-710-0007.____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/thisworldi...____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: hello@yuvlamedia.comConnect with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com
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March 22 · 1 hr 41 min
Ep. 86 // "Australian Balebos" w/ R' Don Wolf
Reb Don Wolf grew up and lives today in Melbourne, Australia where he runs a real estate and construction business.The child of Holocaust survivors, Don grew up in a traditional household that slowly became closer to the Lubavitch community in Melbourne at the time, a group of fascinating individuals led by Reb Zalman Serebryanski, Rabbi Itche Dovid Groner, Reb Nochum Zalman Gurevich and many more.This relationship led Don to study at the Yeshiva Gedolah which he thought would be followed by several years of studying at 770, only for a surprising Yechidus to change those plans.In this episode, Don shares his formative years in Melbourne, the influence these different individuals had on him, both as a young student and eventually as a prominent lay-leader in the community.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____Thank you to Reuven Medalie for hosting this conversation at one of his rentals just a block from 770. To find out more about renting this space for your next say in Crown Heights, please contact him at: 646-710-0007.____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/thisworldi...____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: hello@yuvlamedia.comConnect with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com
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March 15 · 1 hr 42 min
Ep. 85 // "In Defense of Temimus" w/ Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe
Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe lives today in Springfield, MA where he serves as the rabbi at Congregation Bnei Torah.In this episode, we discuss the "temimus," the simple faith, of his grandfather who served in the British armed forces during World War I, and how one can work to retain that simple faith.We also discuss the chassidic approach to temimus, how intellect can sometimes seem to threaten simple faith, and how the two can work together.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to bentzi@yuvlamedia.com____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/thisworldi...____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: hello@yuvlamedia.comConnect with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com
S1 · E84
January 18 · 1 hr 40 min
Ep. 84 // "When We Run Out of Answers" w/ R' Gershon Schusterman
Reb Gershon Schusterman grew up in Brooklyn and today lives in Los Angeles. Almost forty years ago he was on shlichus in Long Beach, California when his first wife and mother of their eleven children suddenly passed away. In the years since he remarried, raised his children and continued to build his life, but he has also spent his time thinking about the religious and chassidic approach processing tragedy. Not just what the texts say about it, but what they can't say, the space of faith that is beyond answers. In this episode we discuss his upbringing and how it framed his approach to dealing with personal tragedy. ____ His book, "Why God Why" can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Believe-Heaven-When-Hurts-Like/dp/0826608469 ____ Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to bentzi@yuvlamedia.com ____ 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 ____ 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: hello@yuvlamedia.com Connect with Bentzi Website | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com

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