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Homesick for LubavitchEp. 61 // "Finding the Treasure" w/ Rabbi Velvel LipskierRabbi Velvel Lipskier grew up in Crown Heights and lives in North Miami Beach where he works in plumbing and construction.In this episode, we discuss how the "voice" of Chassidus can be translated in different cultures and how it can change depending on what we pay attention to.We also discuss some of Velvel's memories from the famous Tishrei of 1992.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate____This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and...2025-05-112h 18Homesick for LubavitchEp. 60 // "The Ability to Change" w/ Rabbi Chaim Shaul BrukRabbi Chaim Shaul Bruk is the shliach in Bozeman, Montana where he and his wife Chavie are now marking 18 years.In this episode, he recalls his growing up in Crown Heights, both the wonderful childhood memories and the tense years of the early nineties.He also shares how a devastating infertility diagnosis in their first years of shlichus changed how he looked at the world, at G-d and at other chassidim he doesn't agree with.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate____This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new...2025-05-042h 07
LamplightersFinding the Frozen Chosen: Rabbi Mendy & Chaya GreenbergSend us a textFinding the Frozen Chosen: Rabbi Mendy & Chaya GreenbergTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"He told me... he never felt so happy. He said, "At my funeral, tell everybody it's never too late to be a proud Jew."... he'd say how he feels that the Tefillin is like...2025-05-0428 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 59 // "Talking to My Nefesh Habehamis" w/ Mayer PragerMayer Prager grew up in the Crown Heights of the 1960's, surrounded by the exodus of the non-Lubavitch Jewish community, the energy of the Lubavitch community that stayed, and of course, the Rebbe.In this episode, we discuss what it was like to grow up in that milieu, his special relationship with R' Yoel Kahan, and his perspective on the direction of the Lubavitch community as someone who sees things from both the inside and the outside.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate____This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden,"...2025-04-271h 34Homesick for LubavitchEp. 58 // "Learning in Lubavitch" w/ Mr. David ShabatMr. David Shabat lives today in Boynton Beach, Florida, but as a young boy from Washington, DC he was sent to study in the Lubavitch school of Bedford and Dean in Crown Heights, where he would go on to spend close to ten years in and about the Lubavitch community and the court of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.One of the listeners to the podcast is David's grandson and suggested I meet up with him.In this episode, David shares his memories for the first time from his years spent in that school, what it was like to be an...2025-04-211h 35Homesick for LubavitchEp. 57 // "Chassidim That Work" w/ Rabbi Rafi TennenhausRabbi Rafi Tennenhaus is a shliach in Hallandale Beach, Florida for more than four decades, where today he directs the activities of many Chabad Houses and an exploding local Lubavitch community.In this episode, we discuss his upbringing in Montreal and before that in a small Canadian town of Bathurst, New Brunswick, where his father, R' Dovid Tennenhaus, had moved years earlier to make a living.We hear about his father's story of individual religiosity in a far off town, his special relationship with both the Rebbe and the Friediker Rebbe, and his involvement in the beginnings of the...2025-04-061h 36Homesick for LubavitchEp. 56 // "How Teaching Has Changed" w/ Rabbi Yossi RosenblumRabbi Yossi Rosenblum is an educator at Yeshiva Schools in Pittsburgh for several decades, where he began as a teacher and now serves as Head of School. In this conversation, we discuss how his priorities as a teacher has changed over time, how both the world around the school but also the world within the school makes new demands of teachers but also offers new opportunities.We discuss how he navigates the changing relationship between the school and the parents and his advice for parents thinking about where to send their child. We also discuss his views about incorporating...2025-03-301h 30Homesick for LubavitchEp. 55 // "A New Intellectual Stage" w/ Rabbi Dr. Eli Leib RubinRabbi Dr. Eli Leib Rubin, Phd is a scholar and author who grew up in Edgeware, a suburb of London, and lives today in Pittsburgh.In this conversation, we discuss his recently published book, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hassidism," a magisterial effort of research and writing tracing the idea of Tzimtzum as it developed between one generation of Lubavitch to the next.We discuss the dynamism of ideas throughout the course of Lubavitch history, the optimism that comes along with this, and what this dynamism might look like today.Dr. Rubin's book...2025-03-232h 15
LamplightersThe Rabbi Who Would Give Anything to a Fellow Jew — Even a Kidney: Rabbi Aizik Baumgarten & Terri DavginSend us a textThe Rabbi Who Would Give Anything to a Fellow Jew — Even a Kidney: Rabbi Aizik Baumgarten & Terri DavginTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!""Hi, this is the Presbyterian Hospital. Your swab came up as a match for Terri Davgin. Are you still interested in donating a...2025-03-1627 min
The daily Hayom Yom with Rabbi Yosef KatzmanHayom Yom 30 Shvat - The first day in Lubavitch as the birthdayכַּמָּה וְכַמָּה חֲסִידִים חָשְׁבוּ יוֹם בּוֹאָם לְליוּבּאַוִויטְשׁ לְיוֹם הוּלֶדֶת שֶׁלָּהֶםMany chassidim used to consider the day they first came to Lubavitch as their birthday. מוֹרִי הָרַשְׁבַּ"ץ בָּא בַּפַּעַם הָרִאשׁוֹנָה לְליוּבּאַוִויטְשׁMy teacher, the Rashbatz, arrived in Lubavitch for the first time אוֹר לְיוֹם שִׁשִּׁי פָּרָשַׁת מִשְׁפָּטִים שְׁנַת תּר"חon the Thursday night of Parshas Mishpatim, 5608 (1848). וּבְכָל שָׁנָה וְשָׁנָה הָיָה עֵר כָּל אוֹתוֹ הַלַּיְלָהEvery year, [on that evening,] he would stay awake throughout that night, וּמְכַוֵּן לְהָנִיחַ תְּפִלִּין בָּהּ בְּשָׁעָה אֲשֶׁר נִכְנַס לְהַצֶּמַח צֶדֶק בַּפַּעַם הָרִאשׁוֹנָהand [in the morning] put on his tefillin at precisely the hour that he had entered the study of the Tzemach Tzedek [for yechidus] for the first time.Text and Translation courtesy of Sichos in English2025-02-2705 min
LamplightersConnecting in Copenhagen: Rabbi Yitzi & Rochel LoewenthalSend us a textConnecting in Copenhagen: Rabbi Yitzi & Rochel LoewenthalThis Lamplighters episode is dedicated by Jonathan Pikoff, in honor of Raymond Schinazi for his amazing support of the Los Cabos Jewish Community. Thank you, Jonathan! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"They were simply not really f...2025-02-1624 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 54 // "Where Even Is Home?" w/ Rabbi Shmully MetzgerSupport this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate
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Rabbi Shmuly Metzger is a shliach in Manhattan, where he runs Chabad Sutton in the Midtown district. A couple miles away is the famous Lubavitch neighborhood of Crown Heights, where Shmuly grew up in both its mythological and concrete past.
In this episode, we discuss his childhood in the presence of the Rebbe but also the tensions on the Crown Heights streets, how the street level and heavenly narratives diverged but also someone worked together.
We also discuss the challenge of holding...2025-01-191h 53
LamplightersEl Rabino of Cabo: Rabbi Benny & Sonia HershcovichSend us a textEl Rabino of Cabo: Rabbi Benny & Sonia HershcovichTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"Two, three months in, we had our foot halfway out the door already. You know, ‘This was a mistake." - Rabbi Benny Hershcovich“In the first years, we questioned whether we s...2025-01-1328 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 53 // "Writing the Messy Divine" w/ Poet Yehoshua NovemberSupport this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate____Yehoshua November is a poet who lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.
His poetry grapples with ideas of Chassidus and their application in real "messy life," including some very personal reflections. Three collections of his poetry have been published, and his work has found appeal with audiences far outside of Lubavitch but also within Lubavitch itself.
In this episode, we discuss the space that writing poetry fills in the life of a chossid, how even whilst surrounded by the great books there is a space within that deserves honest reflection and...2025-01-121h 48Homesick for LubavitchEp. 52 // "Cosmic or Homesick" w/ Rabbi Dovid BashevkinSupport this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate
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Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin PhD lives in Teaneck where he is an author, columnist and host of the 18Forty podcast.
In this episode, we discuss the condition of homesickness across different parts of the religious Jewish community in the United States, the inherent problems but also the possible blessings to be found in it.
We also discuss how different one’s view of some of Lubavitch’s most interesting questions seem depending on where one looks at them from.
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We were going to discuss the book, but ended up talking about how he found himself it writing it in the first place, how as a young Lubavitch boy his parents moved away from Crown Heights to Flatbush and enrolled him in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin, setting him on a trajectory of being a Lubavitcher individual studying outside...2024-12-222h 05
LamplightersThe Outpost In Oklahoma: Rabbi Yehuda & Etel WegSend us a textThe Outpost In Oklahoma: Rabbi Yehuda & Etel WegExciting news! This is Episode 50 of Lamplighters. Amazing! But we won’t celebrate that milestone for too long. There are about 5,000 Chabad emissary families in more than 100 countries. So, 50 episodes down, only 4,950 to go! To keep our series going strong, please consider dedicating one! Email us at podcast@lubavitch.com to explore dedication opportunities.Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Po...2024-12-0926 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 50 // The Blessing of Helping Others w/ Rabbi Mordechai AvtzonRabbi Mordechai Avtzon is my father and the first shliach in the Far East, which is where he and my mother founded Chabad of Hong Kong and China forty years ago.
In this conversation, we discuss his upbringing in Detroit as a child of one of the only Lubavitch families in the city, and the different outlooks his immigrant parents had on their place in their new country.
We also discuss how growing up surrounded by different kinds of religious Jews and spending several years learning in Telshe Chicago influenced his own Lubavitch identity and the way he understood...2024-12-092h 21Homesick for LubavitchEp. 49 // “Shlichus Love Story” w/ Rabbi Nissen GoldmanFifteen year ago, Nissen Goldman was a teenage son of a rabbi in Johannesburg, South Africa finding his own way.
After leaving high school, Nissen ended up spending time in Cape Town where his sister and brother in law where on shlichus and ended up in a relationship with the daughter of their shul’s president.
Fast forward fifteen years, and Nissen is on his shlichus at University of Cape Town with his then girlfriend and now wife, and has come to the kinnus for the first time as a...2024-12-021h 47Homesick for LubavitchEp. 48 // "From Auschwitz to Lubavitch" w/ Rabbi Nissan MangelRabbi Nissan Mangel was ten years old when he came face to face with Dr. Joseph Mengele at the gates of Auschwitz and was miraculously spared the fate of too many others.
In this episode, Rabbi Mangel shares his journey from his small childhood town in Slovakia to Auschwitz and then England and Canada where he eventually met a number of fellow Lubavitch survivors of the war who invited him into Lubavitch.
As he became a chossid of the Rebbe, Rabbi Mangel would go on to work for the Rebbe in a number of capacities, starting by learning chassidus...2024-11-241h 36Homesick for LubavitchEp. 47 // “Agree To Disagree” w/ Rabbi Yaakov WinnerRabbi Yaakov Winner grew up in Brooklyn and has been the mashpia in Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne, Australia for thirty five years.
In this conversation we discuss the mashpiim that most impacted Rabbi Winner as he was growing up, and how the role of a mashpia has developed over the years.
We also discuss how the idea of hiskashrus and Lubavitch identity has shifted over the years, the importance of definitions and speaking with intention, and most importantly the importance of listening to and learning from one another.
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LamplightersFrom Karlin to Wellesley: Rabbi Moshe BleichSend us a textFrom Karlin to Wellesley: Rabbi Moshe BleichTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!Wellesley is a town that didn't have a Shabbos observant Jew since the six days of Creation. Since Adam and Eve, there had never been an observant Jew in Wellesley. But, that being...2024-11-0327 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 46 // “Taking the Rebbe At His Word” w/ Rabbi Dov Yona KornRabbi Dov Yona Korn grew up in Morris Plains, NJ in a “very Reform” Jewish family and is today the shliach in NYU and several other schools in the Bowery district of NYC.
In this episode, we discuss his discovering Chabad in the months after the Rebbe’s passing and the difference this timing made in his own understanding of the Rebbe and Lubavitch.
We also discuss how the Rebbe’s ideas are filtered through layers of communal understanding, and how this communal understanding is sometimes in tension with the lite...2024-10-131h 59Homesick for LubavitchEp. 45 // "Painting The Truth I See" w/ Mendel TreitelMendel Treitel grew up on shlichus in Montreal and is today a modern art painter living in Sydney.
In this episode, Mendel shares his journey through yeshiva and how a number of special teachers helped him reconcile his artistic disposition with the norms of the Yeshiva.
We discuss the challenges in being both a chossid and an artist, the question of individuality and how the art a chossid paints today should be different and unique from the art a chossid painted generations ago.
Mendel's work can be found at:https://www.mendeltreitel.com
2024-10-062h 06Homesick for LubavitchEp. 44 // "Rosh Hashana 5785" w/ Rabbi Yosef KatzmanRabbi Yosef Katzman grew up and lives in Crown Heights, where for many years he hosted the "Cable to Jewish Life" television show.
In this episode, Rabbi Katzman reflects on different pivot points through the years and how these relate to the community's changing attitude towards asking questions.
He also reflects on Rosh Hashana "back in the day" and where this leaves us going into this new year.
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Homesick for Lubavitch began a year ago as a small passion project and has grown into an important conversation in the Lubavitch community.2024-09-292h 45Homesick for LubavitchEp. 43 // "The Narrative of Chassidus" w/ Rabbi Naftali SilberbergRabbi Naftali Silberberg grew up on shlichus in Detroit and today lives in Crown Heights where he is the co-director of curriculum for JLI and host of the Let's Talk Tanya podcast.
In this episode, we trace Naftali's years in yeshiva that took him to Oholei Torah in the late 80s and then to Kfar Chabad, where he discovers a life long love - almost despite the yeshiva - for the study of Tanya.
We discuss what makes the narrative of Tanya so unusual and how a thoughtful study of the Torah Shebichsav of Chassidus...2024-09-221h 34
LamplightersBlack, Jewish and Proud: How Rabbi Yossi Kulek Promotes InclusionSend us a textBlack, Jewish and Proud: How Rabbi Yossi Kulek Promotes Inclusion To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!“I told my mother, ‘I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed to be Black. I look in the mirror and I ask G-d, “Why me? Why do I have to look this way? Why do...2024-09-1626 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 42 // "The Rebbe's Doctor" w/ Rabbi Michoel SeligsonRabbi Michoel Seligson is a teacher and author who lives in Crown Heights. He is also the son of Dr. Avrohom Abba Seligson, a"h, who was known as the Rebbe's doctor.
In this episode, Rabbi Seligson shares his father's amazing story of becoming a doctor as a frum Jew in pre-war Europe, his escape to Shanghai and the role he played in saving the Jewish refugees over the course of the war, and his eventual arrival to Brooklyn where he developed a close, private and miraculous bond with the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
We discuss his father's unique style of...2024-09-152h 05Homesick for LubavitchEp. 41 // "More Needs To Be Demanded" w/ Rabbi Levi AvtzonRabbi Levi Avtzon grew up in Crown Heights and lives today in Johannesburg, South Africa where he is a rabbi at the Linksfield Synagogue.
In this episode we continue the conversation in recent episodes about the tension between the soft and demanding voices in our community.
We discuss the changing narratives in the Lubavitch community and how past demand for conformity has now given way to a therapeutic mindset, and we debate whether or not this change is in fact a true change at all.
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Nobody in her family had ever seen a picture of the Rebbe at that point, let alone met him, but every night her mother would put her to bed with a blessing that one day they would see the Rebbe.
Her family would eventually escape the USSR and make their way to Brooklyn where Mrs. Jacobson would be one of a handful to see the beginnings of the Lubavitch story in Crown Heights and up to this very day.
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LamplightersPutting “Hospitality” in “Hospital”: Rabbis Dovid, Shloime & Rebbetzin Chanie, Chana GreeneSend us a textPutting “Hospitality” in “Hospital”: Rabbis Dovid, Shloime & Rebbetzin Chana GreeneTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!“Everybody is looking for their miracle to take place when they come to Rochester. People come there to experience healing. And I'm going to help those around me heal.” - Rabbi Shloime Greene2024-08-1930 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 38 // “Finding the Rebbe’s Softer Voice” w/ Rabbi Berry FarkashRabbi Berry Farkash is a Shliach in Issaquah, Washington and director of Chabad of the Central Cascades.
Several years ago, a local crisis led Berry into the world of psychotherapy where he became a certified clinical psychotherapist and practices Hypnotherapy and other Transpersonal modalities. Today all of his clients are fellow Lubavitchers, many of them shluchim.
In this conversation, we discuss his own journey toward finding the Rebbe’s softer voice and the need for forgiveness and compassion.
We also discuss the importance of companionship - especially highlighted by the Rebbe’s “bakosho nafshis” to find a mashpia, or in other...2024-08-182h 05
LamplightersThe Myrtle Beach Makeover: Rabbi Doron & Leah AizenmanSend us a textThe Myrtle Beach Makeover: Rabbi Doron & Leah AizenmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"You should go to a place that has no other Shluchim." And the first place that came to mind was Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. So I wrote to the Rebbe that I have that...2024-07-1426 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 32 // "Shock of Yud Shvat" w/ Rabbi Shmuly AvtzonRabbi Shmuly Avtzon is a Mashpia in the Yeshiva of 770 and director of Sichos In English, an organization founded by his late father and my uncle, Rabbi Yonah Avtzon a"h.
In this episode, we compare and contrast our childhood experience and recollection of 27 Adar and 3 Tammuz, him growing up in the thick of the Rebbe's neighborhood of Crown Heights and me growing up across the world on shlichus in Hong Kong.
We discuss the shockwaves these events had on our childhood, and whether or not they can be traced to earlier events in Lubavitch history and specifically the history...2024-06-161h 53
LamplightersCreating Jewish Ambassadors in the KKK’s Backyard: Rabbi Levi & Chaish MentzSend us a textCreating Jewish Ambassadors in the KKK’s Backyard: Rabbi Levi & Chaish MentzTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"I asked, ‘Hey, what's Jewish life like up here?’ And she laughed. She's like, ‘There's nothing. I am the only Jew that lives here.’" - Rabbi Levi Mentz...2024-06-0628 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 31 // "The Image I Remember" w/ Marc AsninMarc Asnin is a documentary photographer who lives in New York City. Over the years, Marc has photographed all kinds of subjects, from the most marginizaled people on death row to his own Uncle Charlie.
In 1992, Marc was commissioned by the New York Times to photograph the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Crown Heights community as part of a feature essay, The Oracle of Crown Heights. Just a few weeks before the stroke, Marc’s pictures are from the last and most iconic pictures of that year.
In this podcast, we discuss Marc’s first impressions of the Rebbe and the Lubav...2024-05-261h 33Homesick for LubavitchEp. 29 // “On Lubavitch Community” w/ Mrs. Vivi DerenMrs. Vivi Deren grew up in Nashville, Tenessee as one of the first children of shluchim in the Unites States. Today she lives in Connecticut where she has been on shlichus with her husband for nearly fifty years.
In this episode, she speaks about her parents growing up as chassidim in the United States of the 1920s and 1930s, and about her grandparents who raised them.
We speak about how the community of Lubavitch in the United States has changed since, and how the Lubavitch ethic of individualism fits with the growth of community. 2024-05-132h 40
LamplightersThe Black Fedora in the Cowboy State: Rabbi Zalman & Raizy MendelsohnSend us a textThe Black Fedora in the Cowboy State: Rabbi Zalman & Raizy MendelsohnTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"I knew that Jackson Hole, being a tiny little town, would be somewhat overwhelming for Raizy to consider moving here full time...And she said, 'This place is beautiful, but can...2024-05-0625 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 28 // "The Price We Pay For Shlichus" w/ Rabbi Yossi MorozovRabbi Yossi Morozov grew up in Brooklyn and was on shlichus with his family for twelve years in Ulyanovsk, a city one thousand kilometers east of Moscow.
After being forced to leave Russia, Yossi moved with his family to the Pomona area in New York and became a life insurance agent.
In this conversation we discuss his choices to go on shlichus and then into business and the challenges these choices posed to his own Lubavitch identity.2024-05-051h 15Homesick for LubavitchEp. 26 // "The Lack of Atmosphere" w/ Rabbi Ruvi NewRabbi Ruvi New grew up in Melbourne, Australia and is a shliach today in Boca Raton, Florida.
In this conversation, we discuss the changing dynamics of Lubavitch identity in the decade between his and his oldest's brother, Moshe New, cross Pacific journeys to 770.
We also discuss how over those years there seemed to be a tipping point of an "arum," or atmosphere, that brought more and more of Lubavitch into a powerful core, and where that leaves us today.
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Bentzi Avtzon is a filmmaker who specializes in telling the stories...2024-04-071h 15Homesick for LubavitchEp. 25 // "The Line Between Good and Bad" w/ Eli NashEli Nash is a businessman and philanthropist who grew up in Crown Heights and lives today in South Florida.
Starting with his efforts to raise awareness about sexual abuse and then porn addiction, Eli has become very active in different causes surrounding mental health in the community.
In this episode, we discuss his own journey away from (and back to?) Lubavitch, the individuals who pointed him back to his roots, and the challenging work of finding the good from the bad.2024-03-311h 24
LamplightersA Sub-Saharan Brit Milah: Rabbi Moshe & Yocheved RaskinSend us a textA Sub-Saharan Brit Milah: Rabbi Moshe & Yocheved RaskinTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!"What’s the chance … that two people will come in the time of quarantine to Uganda, and one of them is a mohel? It's a major hasgacha pratit. I have a lady, she has a ba...2024-03-2722 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 24 // "Lubavitch Sense of Worthiness" w/ R' Chaim Itche DrizinR' Chaim Itche Drizin was one of the first shluchim to set out in the late 60s, directing Chabad of Northern California from his Chabad House in Berkeley.
Today he works as a therapist who in the course of his work speaks with many young men and women in the Lubavitch community.
In our conversation, we speak about his growing up as the youngest son of the famed chossid, R' Avrohom Maayor, the gap between him and his father's generation, a how this "gap of translation" persists to this very day.2024-03-251h 37Homesick for LubavitchEp. 22 // "How Far Can Video Take Us?" w/ Rabbi Elkanah ShmotkinFOR TECHNICAL REASONS, AUDIO FOR LAST TWENTY MINUTES IS LESS THAN OPTIMAL. APOLOGIES - B
Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin is the executive director of JEM, which is responsible for creating tens of thousands of hours of video content of and about the Rebbe.
All Lubavitchers have watched something made by JEM, and in many ways the "Rebbe video" has become a staple of the Lubavitch way of life.
In this episode, we discuss how the idea originated, the limitations and possibilities in video, and where exactly the videos take us.2024-03-101h 57Homesick for LubavitchEp. 21 // "Moving Beyond Process" w/ Rabbi Dovber PinsonRabbi Dovber Pinson is a shliach, scholar and prolific author.
Spinning off from a previous off-the-podcast conversation, Rabbi Pinson presented a hypothesis about the unique similarities between the Rebbe and the Baal Shem Tov, and what it might mean to us.
This led to an eye-opening conversation about the radical turn of Dor Hashvii in Lubavitch thought and some of its far reaching implications.2024-03-031h 29
LamplightersFighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: The Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi MishulovinSend us a textFighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: the Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi MishulovinTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com"It was a Friday night. We were just going to sleep, and all of a sudden I hear banging on the front door of my house. So we go to open the door, and we're told that the Chabad house is on fire." - Rabbi Chayim Mishulovin"It's hard for me to say this, but...2024-02-2024 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 20 // "But I Want A Smile" w/ Mrs. Sandy WeinbaumMrs. Sandy Weinbaum lives in London, England where she, together with her husband, Dr. Bunim, directs the London Jewish Family Center.
Mrs. Weinbaum's story begins sixty years ago with a shliach knocking on the door of her father's office and comes full circle today with her having raised fourteen children, many of whom are themselves shluchim.
Over the years, the Weinbaums have been involved in many of Lubavitch's initiatives in London, even if they never assumed official titles or positions.
In this episode, we discuss her journey...2024-01-281h 55Homesick for LubavitchEp. 19 // "In Defense of Gezhe" w/ R' Mendel DuchmanR' Mendel Duchman lives in Los Angeles and is a businessman, business coach and motivational speaker.
He is also, to my mind, one of today's most outspoken motivators and cheerleaders for shluchim and Lubavitch around the world.
But while R' Mendel very much lives in "today," he is also a staunch defender of the idea of "gezhe," or the value of holding on to one's past that can be traced to the old home back in Russia.
While "gezhe" has come to mean all...2024-01-211h 20
LamplightersHoly High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana BassmanSend us a textHoly High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana BassmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com"There was one instance where a bunch of kids over there brought this bag of chips, they gave it to me. And I was like, "You know, what could be wrong with chips?" And ate it. And then, afterwards, they were just mocking me. "Oh, that was pork rinds. The Jew ate pork rinds." - Gedaliah Liberman...2024-01-1724 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 18 // “When Did We Stop Asking Questions?” w/ Rabbi Mendel ZirkindRabbi Mendel Zirkind has taught for over a decade in the Wilkes-Barre and Jets yeshivas.
Not having planned to become an educator, Mendel shares the lessons he's learned from his time spent in these so-called "outlier" yeshivas and how the discussions and questions taking place there have so much to teach everyone.
We discuss the seeming changes in Lubavitch regarding the asking of introspective questions, what may have led to these changes and where they leave us today.2024-01-142h 34Homesick for LubavitchEp. 17 // "To the Promised Land" w/ Zevi SlavinZevi Slavin is a student of philosophy and mysticism and host of a YouTube channel on this topic, Seekers of Unity.
He is also the son of shluchim in Sydney, Australia and a proud chossid.
On this episode, we discuss if and how Zevi manages the tension between his intellectual pursuits and his Lubavitch identity.
We also discuss his thoughts on the collision of Lubavitch with modernity and where it leaves each of us.2024-01-071h 41Homesick for LubavitchEp. 14 // "Happy Place Lubavitch" w/ Leibel GniwischLeibel Gniwisch is a lawyer and Ivy League graduate. He is also a good friend who lives in the neighborhood over.
Over the past year we've had many discussions about Lubavitch identity, the questions worth asking and avenues of inquiry worth pursuing. More a conversation than an interview, this episode is one of those.
We talk about Leibel's growing up in Montreal, what led him to pursue a profession in law and what lessons he has learned along the way.2023-12-171h 38
LamplightersSparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in Curaçao: Rabbi Refoel & Chani SilverSend us a textRabbi Refoel & Chani Silver: Sparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in CuraçaoTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.comIn June of 2017, Rabbi Refoel and Chani Silver boarded a plane for Curaçao on a fact-finding mission. "We had a meeting one evening at the Shul, and we called upon local members to come. And they had set up a lot, a lot, a lot of chairs, apparently expecting 40 to 50 people. A lot less people showed up. And the...2023-11-3028 minHomesick for LubavitchEp. 10 // "America Is Nisht Andersh" with Rebbetzin Bassie GarelikRebbetzin Bassie Garelik is one of the earliest shluchim, having been sent to Italy over 60 years ago.
She was also born in the United States, growing up in Pittsburgh, which is why I wanted to have her on the podcast to discuss what it was like to grow up in America before Lubavitch - and indeed Yiddishkeit - was established here the way it is today.
We discussed what it was like to grow up in her parent's home, and what has and hasn't changed in the generations since.2023-11-201h 29Homesick for LubavitchEp. 9 // "From Lubavitch to Gateshead and Back" with Rabbi Moshe Leib GrayRabbi Moshe Leib Gray was a teenage Lubavitch yeshiva student when he found himself in the renowned yeshiva of Gateshead just a year after Gimmel Tammuz.
This would not be the last time he'd find himself somewhere unexpected: Never expecting to go on shlichus, today he is the shliach at Dartmouth University.
In this podcast he tells us his amazing story and the lessons he learned along the way.2023-11-131h 58Homesick for LubavitchEp. 8 // "Empower the Individual" with Rabbi Moshe NewRabbi Moshe New is the senior rabbi of the Montreal Torah Center and a shliach for over forty years.
In this episode, we talk about his upbringing in Australia and the changing Lubavitch landscape he observed as he travelled to the United States and finally to Montreal.
We also discuss how the landscape continues to change and how it might point in a more positive direction, namely with a more specific focus on empowering the individual.2023-11-101h 49Homesick for LubavitchEp. 6 // Emergency Podcast "Wartime Changes Everything Including Lubavitch" with Rabbi Shmully HechtRabbi Shmully Hecht is the founder and senior Chabad rabbi at Yale, and co-founder of Shabtai, the global Jewish leadership community.
We discuss how everything changed this Simchas Torah and where we might go from here. Not only the world around us but also Lubavitch itself.2023-11-081h 42Homesick for LubavitchEp. 5 // "Does Shlichus Have Anything To Do With Me?" with Sholom JacobsSholom 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.
In this episode, we discuss his journey into business, how the Lubavitch perspective around business has changed over the years, and what he has carried with him from his days growing up on shlichus.2023-10-161h 17Homesick for LubavitchEp. 2 // "Am I a Lubavitcher?" with Eldad DroriEldad 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.
We discuss how he reconciles his gym identity with his lubavitch identity, and how the identity that comes out of it is something both traceable to his family's past and yet entirely his own.2023-09-261h 14
Homesick for LubavitchEp. 1 // "Is Lubavitch Identity in Question?" with Rabbi Yossi NemesRabbi 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.2023-09-151h 21
Lamplighters“The Meshugenas”: Five Aussies' Journeys To Jewish ObservanceSend us a textFrom Beaches And Basketball To Torah And Mitzvahs: The Story of Perth’s “Meshugenahs”Featuring: Rabbi Dovid Birk, Michoel Ogince, Gilad Lurie, Yitz Feigenbaum & Aaron Lazer GoodmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "I couldn’t understand. I was like, "One second; I saw a wetsuit in your bathroom." He says, "Yeah, I was out surfing this morning, Tel Aviv." I couldn't believe it. So I challenged him. I was like, "One second, how is it possible...2023-06-2823 min
LamplightersRabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American HeartlandSend us a textRabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American HeartlandTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com"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...2023-05-3025 min
LamplightersPart 2: Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-donSend us a textRabbi 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 Kail...2023-05-0228 min
LamplightersRabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don (Part 1)Send us a textRabbi 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 DanzingerProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Isr...2023-03-2822 min
LamplightersThe Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter HimmelmanSend us a textThe Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter HimmelmanPH: 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...2023-03-0624 min
GotQuestions.org Audio Pages 2023-2025What is Chabad Lubavitch?What is Chabad Lubavitch? What is the role of Chabad Lubavitch within Orthodox Judaism?2023-03-0300 min
LamplightersA Searching Teenager Becomes a Rabbi in his Hometown: Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel WagnerSend us a textEp. 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 WagnerProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com...2023-02-0219 min
LamplightersRabbi Mendy & Mazal Sternbach: Lagos, Nigeria - A Small Jewish Community in an African City of 20 MillionSend us a textRabbi 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 th...2023-01-1020 min
LamplightersRabbi Mayshe Schwartz: Connecting Two Generations Of Rabbis In A Boston NICUSend us a textRabbi 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."...2022-11-2920 min
LamplightersMerging Torah And Science: Lessons From The Life Of Dr. Binyomin AbramsSend us a textMerging 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 m...2022-10-3125 min
LamplightersRabbi Dovid & Elisa Gurevich: World's First Chabad on Campus Still Going StrongSend us a textRabbi Dovid & Elisa Gurevich: World's First Chabad on Campus Still Going StrongI 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 WilsonNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & S...2022-09-2222 min
Derher AudioShabbos in LubavitchFor more than 102 years, the Rebbeim of Chabad called the town of Lubavitch home, and from there Chassidus spread around the world. Chassidim from all over would journey to the town of Lubavitch to spend a few uplifting days, weeks, or months with the Rebbe. In this episode, we revisit the incredible experience of Shabbos in Lubavitch after the Rebbe Rashab founded Tomchei Temimim.2022-09-1907 min
LamplightersRabbi Michoel & Zisel Goldman: Everything Grows on Kauai … Why Not Yiddishkeit?Send us a textRabbi 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 GoldmanNarrated by: Gary...2022-08-2421 min
LamplightersFrom Kabul To Fremont: An Afghan Family Moves Into A Chabad House - Rabbi Moshe & Chaya FussSend us a textFrom 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...2022-08-0428 min
LamplightersFrom 'Grateful Dead' fans to Chabad emissaries: Rabbi Dov Yona & Sarah KornSend us a textFrom '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...2022-07-1326 min
LamplightersFrom Revolutionary Iran To Outreach In California: Rabbi Danny Yiftach-HashemSend us a textFrom 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-HashemNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podc...2022-06-2329 min
LamplightersTransforming Unfathomable Loss Into Jewish Light And Warmth: Rabbi Yisrael & Vivi DerenSend us a textRabbi Yisrael & Vivi Deren: Transforming Unfathomable Loss Into Jewish Light And WarmthFeaturing: Former Senator Joe LiebermanHow ‘The Concert’ Helped Establish The Derens’ Jewish Outreach In The NortheastWe're opening a Chabad house. In those days, Jews - frum Jews - didn't know what the word "Chabad house" meant.‘We pulled out all stops and no expense spared. This is going to be the greatest [concert] ever’ - Rabbi Yisroel DerenNarrated by: Gary Waleik2022-06-0828 min
LamplightersBagels, Bears & Baalei Teshuva in Berkeley: Rabbi Yehuda & Miriam FerrisSend us a textBagels, Bears & Baalei Teshuva in Berkeley: Rabbi Yehuda & Miriam Ferris“We had no manual. We had great role models, but basically we didn't know what to do. The Rebbe told us, "You should spread the joy and inspiration of Yiddishkeit." But he didn't tell us how. So we were basically experimenting with humor, with music, with food, different programs, whatever sticks, you throw it against the wall.” "When we got here to Berkeley, there were no Baalei Teshuva on campus. Today, our campus shluchim are baalei teshuva that we he...2022-05-1820 min
LamplightersOne Year Anniversary: Our Favorite StoriesSend us a textIn Episode 23 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, we present a quartet of the series’ most popular stories to mark the one-year anniversary of its first episode. They include the fight of a Chabad couple to save their baby, the work of an emissary to help people recovering from drug addiction in South Africa, a dual liver donor, and two Rebbetzins from Ukraine who fled but are still tending to their communities as they disperse around the globe. Narrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gar...2022-05-0421 min
LamplightersRabbi Chaim & Chavie Bruk: "Yes, there are Jews in Montana!"Send us a text"There are Jews in Montana? What are you doing? And how is this going to be sustainable?" Rabbi Chaim & Chavie Bruk, Chabad Representatives to the state of Montana.In 2008, less than two years after they had put down roots in Montana, they were diagnosed with permanent infertility. They were devastated. "You get married, you're young, like, you're going to build a family. It's going to happen right away. There's going to be no obstacles to that. And that is not at all how it...2022-04-0625 min
LamplightersMiriam Moskovitz & Esther Wilhelm: Two Dramatic Journeys Out Of Ukrainian War ZonesSend us a textMiriam Moskovitz & Esther Wilhelm: Two Dramatic Journeys Out Of Ukrainian War ZonesDespite the War, Ukraine’s Chabad Emissaries Are As Dedicated As Ever‘Last year when we made the Hamentashen together with you, we had music in the background. Now I have artillery fire in the background’ - Member of the Kharkiv Jewish Community to Miriam Moskovitz Narrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and...2022-03-2421 min
LamplightersRabbi Mendel & Chanie Fogelman: "Pastrami Shlichus" In Central MassachusettsSend us a textRabbi Mendel & Chanie Fogelman: "Pastrami Shlichus" In Central Massachusetts How A Kosher Take Out Is Transforming A Massachusetts community ‘It's just top-tier food. Kosher or not, it's just top-tier’ - Anthony DeSimoneNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.comAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastDid you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we tru...2022-03-0919 min
LamplightersRabbi Chaim & Aidel Zaklos: Bringing Together The Patchwork Community Of Solano CountySend us a textRabbi Chaim & Aidel Zaklos: Bringing Together The Patchwork Community Of Solano County"For me, the most exciting part was feeling like you can give them something that they never had before, and really filling a thirst that they had. And watching them just drink it up." - Rabbi Chaim Zaklos"Before the rabbi came into our life, pretty much making the kids watch reruns of “The Nanny” was about the most Jewish learning that they got... if the rabbi hadn't come into our life, I don't know where the...2022-02-2318 min
LamplightersMrs. Chana Sharfstein: The Story of The Trailblazing Shliach To Russia, Latvia, Sweden and BostonSend us a textMrs. Chana Sharfstein: The Story of The Trailblazing Shliach To Russia, Latvia, Sweden and BostonZuber’s Life Cut Tragically Short, Ending Decades Of ShlichusNarrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International MagazineTo read the transcript of the episode: www.Lubavitch.com/episode18transcriptSupport the show2022-02-0920 min
LamplightersRabbi Zalman Grossbaum & Barbara Warter: LifeTown, A Village For The Special Needs CommunitySend us a textRabbi Zalman Grossbaum & Barbara Warter: LifeTown, A Village For The Special Needs CommunityBuilding Life Town In ‘The Epicenter Of The Special Needs World’Narrated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International MagazineTo read the transcript of the episode: www.Lubavitch.com/episode17transcriptSupport the show2022-01-2521 min
LamplightersRabbi Motti & Rochel Flikshtein: From Rapper To RabbiSend us a textRabbi Motti & Rochel Flikshtein: From Rapper To RabbiHow A Hug Helped The Rapping Rabbi Reject His Rebellious Past Naarated by: Gary WaleikProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International MagazineTo read the transcript of the episode: www.Lubavitch.com/episode16transcript Support the show2022-01-1128 min
LamplightersRabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff: Changing Lives Through Sign LanguageSend us a textRabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff: Changing Lives Through Sign Language“There was no reason for me to stay as a member of the Jewish community if I couldn't be actively a part of it.” - Steve Weiner“There was a deep need for access to education about the Jewish religion and Jewish customs and traditions in sign language … It was my calling.” -Rabbi Yehoshua SoudakoffTranscript Available at: Lubavitch.com/podcasttranscriptSupport the show2021-11-2317 min
LamplightersRabbi Efraim Simon: One Of The Country's First 'Dual Donors'Send us a textRabbi Ephraim Simon: Saving A Life - Twice - With The Help Of ‘The Kidney Matchmaker’Support the show2021-08-0220 min
LamplightersRabbi Shlomo Noginski: A Boston Rabbi's Response To Stabbing AttackSend us a textRabbi Noginski Recovering After Brutal Assault: Boston Community Responds With Charity And Acts of Kindness ‘It's A Big Miracle That I’m Alive. The Wounds Will Heal, And The Mitzvahs Will Stay.’ - Rabbi Shlomo NoginskiSupport the show2021-07-1912 min