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Homesick 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
Extra Sauce with Chaim Kohn8. Lubavitch in 2019 - Part 3: The World is a Garden - Farbrengen with Rabbi Shmuly Metzger, Chezzi Denebeim, and Baruch ThalerPart 3/3 of a Farbrengen with Rabbi Shmuly Metzger, Chezzi Denebeim, and Baruch Thaler. Recorded in Crown Heights on June 3rd, 2019. In this episode we circle back to the theme of coming home. Coming home to discover a new meaning and experience with the texts and narratives of our youth. Reb Baruch shares more of his own journey and a special song on the theme of renewal. Referenced Material: The world is a Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLboiRmaR2M&t=139sAudio engineered by Paladin...2019-08-2237 min
Extra Sauce with Chaim Kohn7. Lubavitch in 2019 - Part 2: Look Who Thinks They're Nothing! - Farbrengen with Rabbi Shmuly Metzger, Chezzi Denebeim, and Baruch ThalerPart 2/3 of a Farbrengen with Rabbi Shmuly Metzger, Chezzi Denebeim, and Baruch Thaler. Recorded in Crown Heights on June 3rd, 2019. Did Lubavitch abandon Avodas Atzmo? The danger of living in a state of opposition to the world rather than in unison with it, and we explore the degree to which the Rebbe really desired autonomy amongst his Chassidim. Referenced Material: Hayom Yom: https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/6045/jewish/Hayom-Yom-Tevet-25.htmAudio engineered by Paladin Studios: instagram.com/paladinstudiosnyc 2019-08-221h 27
Extra Sauce with Chaim Kohn6. Lubavitch in 2019 - Part 1: Coming Home - Farbrengen with Rabbi Shmuly Metzger, Chezzi Denebeim, and Baruch ThalerPart 1 of a Farbrengen with Rabbi Shmuly Metzger, Chezzi Denebeim, and Baruch Thaler. Recorded in Crown Heights on June 3rd, 2019. In this episode each guest shares some memories and feelings on the theme of coming home and we explore the possibility and challenge inherent to coming back home, to a place you never really left. Audio engineered by Paladin Studios: instagram.com/paladinstudiosnyc Bumper music: Toshev Enosh https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/music_cdo/aid/140726/jewish/Tosheiv-Enosh.htmRu...2019-07-161h 06