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ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen

Farbrengen is Art. Art of the soul. It is a living palette of heart and mind, mixing the modern Chassidic culture and contemporary issues ….which perhaps we rather not talk about. Add honesty and simplicity, and you have a Street Farbrengen.“Our canvas is the Street corner we cherish - common sense, heart, and the spirit of adventure. Its what is ChabadLife.” Co- hosts Reuven Flamer and Zacharia Lipitz talk about what normally lives underground...Gimmel Tammuz.

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Episode Street Farbrengen Episode # 115 - Looking for...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/03/22

In this episode of Street Farbrengen, the question 'How do I enter the Seder prepared for something real?' takes a surprising turn. What may begin with an assumption to create a desire to “jump” to a higher level becomes a far more honest conversation: What do we actually mean when we talk about growth, breakthrough, faith, or transformation? Are we seeking something real — or just chasing another spiritual fantasy? From the Mitteler Rebbe’s teaching on matzah as both ...

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Street Farbrengen Episode # 114 - Did G-d leave your...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/03/15

G-d is our koach? Most people understand G-d gives you talents, strength, opportunity — the abilities you use to succeed. But Chassidus suggests something far deeper. It’s not that G-d gave you strength. He is your strength — right now, in the very act of thinking, speaking, and acting. And when life feels distant or dark, it’s not that G-d left the room. The separation is only in our perception. The search itself is the connection. This week on Street Farbrengen, we explore a p...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 113 - Slave or Prisoner?

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/03/06

“When Adar enters, we increase in joy.” Rashi explains that the joy comes because we are approaching Purim and Pesach. In other words, Adar begins a movement—from celebration to liberation. But there’s a fascinating detail in the language of Chassidus. The Alter Rebbe doesn’t describe the Exodus simply as leaving slavery. He calls it leaving prison—the godly soul being freed from the prison of the body and the animal soul. Why prison? A slave feels controlled by a master. But a prisoner...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 112 - Stop Drifting.

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/02/24

Stop Drifting. If you’ve been reacting instead of choosing — this episode is for you. Zion Adar isn’t sentimental. It’s power. Mazalo gavar — your inner root is strong. That’s why the Rebbe pushed for making a hachlata on a birthday: not from guilt, not from “should,” but from strength. We talk about the difference between floating through life and setting a mountain in the distant to reach. About how one real decision — made from your deeper self — changes the road you walk and t...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 111 - Pareto Principle and...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/02/20

Adar marks more than a turning point in Jewish history. Chassidus teaches that Purim represents a turning point in Jewish inner history. At Har Sinai, the Torah was accepted under awe — even coercion. In the days of Purim, it was accepted willingly. And that difference — obligation versus willingness — may be one of the most personal struggles in our lives. We know how to show up. We know how to fulfill. We know how to do what’s required. But do we do it warmly? I find mysel...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 110: Life is a farbrengen....

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/02/15

This week on Street Farbrengen, we ask a question that somehow took us 100+ episodes to articulate: Why are we called Street Farbrengen — when we’re sitting at a dining room table? As the Alter Rebbe teaches, a name reflects the essence of what is named — then what are we actually are we and what are we doing each week? We revisit a powerful teaching from the Previous Rebbe: A farbrengen is meant to elevate a person — and only after that look back and see his pa...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 109 - G-d and the Mafia

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/02/13

What happens when we start treating Hashem like a mafia boss? You pay your dues. You keep your side of the deal. And then the “laundromat” still burns down. Is our relationship with G-d transactional? If I’m good, You’ll be good back? If things go my way, You’re close — and if they don’t, You’re distant? Or is that projection? In this episode, four voices wrestle with a question that many feel but few articulate: Are we constructing G-d based on outcomes — reward...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 108 - Can You Nullify a...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/02/04

This Week’s Conversation Does knowing yourself contradict bitul (self-nullification)? This week’s Street Farbrengen circles a tension many of us feel but rarely articulate: Chassidus teaches bitul, yet real avodah seems to demand deep self-awareness. Is knowing yourself the goal of avodah—or its prerequisite? Drawing from Basi LeGani, we explore the Rebbe’s teaching that just as a korban requires bedikah, inspection - so too a person must examine themselves. You cannot elevate wha...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 107 - G-d. My Critic or...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/01/28

This week’s Street Farbrengen began with a story that shook the room. A man who lost his son. A man who later experienced something that felt like an open miracle. And instead of comfort, his response was raw and aching: “Hashem… what do You want from me?” Not rebellion. Not disbelief. Pain. From there, the conversation opened into something far deeper than the original story: Can you live with questions that never resolve? Is it stronger to believe without answers — or to reject belief altog...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 106 - Are you allowed to...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/01/23

This week’s Street Farbrengen goes right into the fire. What’s really behind the controversy over breathwork in Crown Heights? Is the issue the practice—or something deeper? The conversation unfolds into an unexpected place: the idea that the real avodah zarah isn’t techniques, trends, or tools, but the subtle moment when we give away our sense of inner agency and hand our power to anything outside ourselves. The episode moves from breathwork to scrolling, from laziness to trauma, from Tanya ...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 105 - Naiveté and the...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/01/12

I look around and see so many people struggling to stay inspired — in Yiddishkeit, with Chassidus and the Rebbe. And yet, after decades, I still feel a fire when I learn Chassidus. And honestly? This itself feels like a question. Am I naïve? Is this just intellectual excitement? Habit? Or something real? In this week’s Street Farbrengen, we wrestle openly with a question many may be afraid to ask out loud: How do I know the inspiration is real — and not just emoti...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 104 - Chassidus has...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2026/01/01

We dive into a provocative statement you’ve probably heard in Hasidic circles: “CHASSIDUS has everything.” What does that actually mean? Does Chasidic thought truly encompass every aspect of life and purpose — or is that phrase more myth than reality? WE TRY TO go beyond sound bites and slogans to unpack what Chassidus actually offers: not a magic formula to “fix” life’s problems, but a dynamic system rooted in inner transformation and devotional connection — one that ...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 103 - Hey Teves - not who...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/12/26

The Rebbe said it clearly on Hey Teves: the books are talking to you — and they’re waiting to be expanded. Didan Natzach means learning. Not celebrating Torah. Not cheering for it. Opening it and drawing it outward. The sfarim aren’t finished objects. They are waiting for a learner who will struggle with them, break them open, and let Torah shebaal peh emerge through his own mind. If they stay closed, they’re still in captivity. The Rebbe’s cry wasn’t about ownership or victory; it was about ...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 102 - Life Above Nature

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/12/16

We can read Hanukkah as a turnaround story: oppression, resistance, triumph. Street Farbrengen questions that framing entirely. The Maccabees didn’t fight because they believed they would win. They fought because it wasn’t a question. Like Nachshon stepping into the sea. Like chassidim in Communist Russia. No cheshbon. No inner debate. No narrative. Through a deep dive into the Rebbe’s teaching on the Hanukkah oil — oil that burned miraculously without losing its identity — ...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 101 - Yud-Tes Kislev a...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/12/12

In this episode, we take on a quiet but uncomfortable question: what does it mean when our relationship with G-d becomes transactional—show up, punch in, punch out, move on? Through a raw, sometimes tense conversation, we explore the Frierdiker Rebbe’s piercing claim that the root of all negative traits is not sin, but comfort with mediocrity. Not doing less—but being okay with less. From there, the discussion turns inward: discipline not as willpower or productivity, but as confronting the...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 100 - Faith, Helplessness...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/12/06

This week on Street Farbrengen, we start with an uncomfortable moment in shul. Someone tells me straight out: “My problem with Chabad is you think you have the emes – the truth of truths.” And I answered him, “You’re right. We do.” But under that answer is something much deeper: Chabad doesn’t live with a transactional relationship with Hashem. From there, we open up a raw conversation about what most people call emunah. For many, emunah has quietly turned into a coping mechanism: the holier...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 99- Fighting “isms” is...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/12/03

What do you do when the farbrengen glow wears off and it’s just you… and your phone? In this week’s Street Farbrengen, we start from a Yud Kislev fabrengen and ask a very uncomfortable question: Is there even such a thing as “inspiration” in our generation anymore — and if yes, where is it supposed to come from? We push back on the quiet assumption that the Rebbe, the mashpia, or the “fire in the room” is meant to carry us, and instead talk about becoming self-inspired: a Yid whose sense of ...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 98: I forget to use my mind!”

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/11/27

Ever walk out of a great shiur or powerful davening totally on fire… and by 11:30 AM you’re scrolling, annoyed at people, and can’t even remember what you decided that morning? That’s where this week’s Street Farbrengen starts. Reuven puts a raw question on the table with Zakaria: “How come I learn every morning that the mind is supposed to direct the heart… and then, in real life, I forget to even use my mind?” From there, the conversation goes deep and very real: The to-do lists and lofty...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 97- “Chossid or a...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/11/19

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...

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Street Farbrengen Episode 96 - J'accuse - Unspoken...

ChabadLife.TV Street Farbrengen ·

2025/11/12

As we approach our 100th episode, Zacharia and Reuven turn the mic inward — to the Chabad community itself. We began nearly a year ago, with a simple question: Has Chabad’s leadership been living with unspoken post-traumatic stress since Gimmel Tammuz? Now, a powerful anonymous letter has surfaced - in response to the recent suicide of a young man — one that accuses Chabad of a generation gap so deep that it’s left some young people unseen, unheard, and in pain. In this wee...

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