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Homesick for Lubavitch
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2023
Podcast exploring Lubavitch identity in 2024, hosted by Bentzi Avtzon. New episodes weekly.
Support the HFL podcast at: www.hflpodcast.com/donate
Support the HFL podcast at: www.hflpodcast.com/donate
Ep. 50 // "The Blessing of Helping Others" w/ Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon
Rabbi 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 the mission of his shlichus.
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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: www.thisworldisagarden.com
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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 | www.yuvlamedia.com
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 the mission of his shlichus.
____
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: www.thisworldisagarden.com
____
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 | www.yuvlamedia.com
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Ep. 49 // “Shlichus Love Story” w/ Rabbi Nissen Goldman
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Fifteen 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...
Ep. 48 // "From Auschwitz to Lubavitch" w/ Rabbi Nissan Mangel
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Rabbi 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...
Ep. 47 // “Agree To Disagree” w/ Rabbi Yaakov Winner
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Rabbi 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 importanc...
Ep. 46 // “Taking the Rebbe At His Word” w/ Rabbi Dov Yona Korn
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Rabbi 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 filt...
Ep. 45 // "Painting The Truth I See" w/ Mendel Treitel
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Mendel 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 pain...
Ep. 44 // "Rosh Hashana 5785" w/ Rabbi Yosef Katzman
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Rabbi 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 ye...
Ep. 43 // "The Narrative of Chassidus" w/ Rabbi Naftali Silberberg
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Rabbi 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. W...
Ep. 42 // "My Father, the Rebbe's Doctor" w/ Rabbi Michoel Seligson
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Rabbi 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...
HFL // Year One in Review
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As the first year of Homesick of Lubavitch comes to a close, I look back to what I thought this podcast would be and what it has become. I'm overwhelmed by the gracious and kind response from so many around the world. I don't take any of it for granted and it means the world that so many other people find these conversations meaningful. A big thank you to the dozens of guests and thousands of v...
Ep. 41 // "More Needs To Be Demanded" w/ Rabbi Levi Avtzon
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Rabbi 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 t...
Ep. 40 // "May We See the Rebbe" w/ Mrs. Tzivia Jacobson
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Mrs. Tzivia Jacobson grew up in in the 1930s in a Lubavitch family in Kutaisi, Georgia under Soviet rule. 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 w...
Ep. 39 // "Working With What I Have" w/ R' Yossel Mochkin
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Reb Yossel Mochkin grew up in Crown Heights in the 1960s and 1970s, living in the cloistered world of his immigrant parents and their friends but surrounded by a fast changing and exciting world around him. Never finding it easy to fit in to the milieu around him, Yossel had to ask on his own questions about the direction his life was to take. These questions were never fully resolved, but a ye...
Ep. 38 // “Finding the Rebbe’s Softer Voice” w/ Rabbi Berry Farkash
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Rabbi 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 di...
Ep. 37 // "The Need to Move Forward" w/ Mrs. Toby Hecht
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Mrs Toby Hecht is the director of Shabtai, a global Jewish leadership society at Yale University in New Haven. Toby grew up on shlichus in Seattle and was finishing up her senior year in Beth Rivka High School in Crown Heights when she and her friends were swept up in the collective grief of Gimmel Tammuz. In this conversation, Toby reflects on the feelings of that time, the emergent awareness ...
Ep. 36 // "Making the Past Present" w/ Rabbi Dr. Shmary Brownstein
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Ep. 36 // "Making the Past Present" w/ Rabbi Dr. Shmary Brownstein
Ep. 35 // "Do You Notice the Narrative?" w/ Rabbi Peretz Chein (Bonus conversation w/ Chanie Chein)
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Ep. 35 // "Do You Notice the Narrative?" w/ Rabbi Peretz Chein (Bonus conversation w/ Chanie Chein)
Ep. 34 // "Fantasy of Going Back" w/ Rabbi Moshe Greenwald
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Ep. 34 // "Fantasy of Going Back" w/ Rabbi Moshe Greenwald
Ep. 33 // "He Believed in Me" w/ Rabbi Pinny Andrusier
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Ep. 33 // "He Believed in Me" w/ Rabbi Pinny Andrusier
Ep. 32 // "Shock of Yud Shvat" w/ Rabbi Shmuly Avtzon
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Ep. 32 // "Shock of Yud Shvat" w/ Rabbi Shmuly Avtzon
Ep. 31 // "The Image I Remember" w/ Marc Asnin
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Ep. 31 // "The Image I Remember" w/ Marc Asnin
Ep. 30 // "My Struggle With Chitas" w/ Fitz Rabin
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Ep. 30 // "My Struggle With Chitas" w/ Fitz Rabin
Ep. 29 // “On Lubavitch Community” w/ Mrs. Vivi Deren
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Ep. 29 // “On Lubavitch Community” w/ Mrs. Vivi Deren
Ep. 28 // "The Sacrifice We Pay" w/ Rabbi Yossi Morozov
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Ep. 28 // "The Sacrifice We Pay" w/ Rabbi Yossi Morozov
Ep. 27 // "The Paradox of Empowerment" w/ Rabbi Simon Jacobson
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Ep. 27 // "The Paradox of Empowerment" w/ Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Ep. 26 // "The Lack of Atmosphere" w/ Rabbi Ruvi New
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Ep. 26 // "The Lack of Atmosphere" w/ Rabbi Ruvi New
Ep. 25 // "The Line Between Good and Bad" w/ Eli Nash
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Ep. 25 // "The Line Between Good and Bad" w/ Eli Nash
Ep. 24 // "Lubavitch Sense of Worthiness" w/ R' Chaim Itche Drizin
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Ep. 24 // "Lubavitch Sense of Worthiness" w/ R' Chaim Itche Drizin
Ep. 23 // "Should We Still Be Yearning?" w/ Rabbi Moshe Gourarie
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Ep. 23 // "Should We Still Be Yearning?" w/ Rabbi Moshe Gourarie
Ep. 22 // "How Far Can Video Take Us?" w/ Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin
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Ep. 22 // "How Far Can Video Take Us?" w/ Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin
Drinking from a can ! Feh !
Unbelievable podcast. Soo geshmak!!!
Beautiful conversation. Hard to imagine your father's type of upbringing in todays day and age - growing up in a non Lubavitch community, going to school in Telz, barely spending any time in the Lubavitch system - but the way that he talks about it with such fondess, makes one indeed "Homesick" for a simpler time.
You touched on a sensitive nerve the term that has been picking up speed in the last 10 years, " The family of Shluchim " verses just using the tried & true term chassideim ain mishpacha .I feel this term creates a undesirable unnecessary divide & in my opinion should not be used . Maybe your cousin Reb Gershon can address this issue?
Your Father is a true Tzaddik and I know him well.
Whats the Niggun of your Shabbos memory?
th-cam.com/video/GBsvPvxcuoU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2ATG5eC0YmUJ2WKw
What’s the English for the Yiddish term for ppl who “tinker on high”
@@Brachaschoonover climbing on straight walls
of course, ahavas Yisroel makes everyone happy, including haShem!
Your father comes across as a man of extreme humility, an inspiration to hear. Thank You!
He is. Thank you
As a ger, I would never daven in English. Luckily I learned Hebrew before I converted.
Your father's ability to listen is outstanding! He's fully attentive not trying to interject, but rather letting you express yourself. His story about the guy with his siddur had me in tears.
Great episode Bentzi Bentzi ben Yisroel
Finaly ! The Rav that accepted me, someone from indonesia. In his office, the Rav who accepted me in his office, i was crying there, and He helped me to find a way to manage to move and start my giur ❤
Unlikely like me!
Really enjoying the episodes lately!
Very very uplifting
Only with gezer families this can happen!!
Special person… he has a lot of courage to find his way on his own path
Israeli listener here... jumps in fright from an ambulance siren in New York 🥴
Love you Nissan!
In one of Jonathan Sacks’ letters to the rebbe he writes: “The situation I find myself in…” The Rebbe said a person doesn’t find themselves in a situation. Which supports your premise that a place isn’t someplace one ends up but rather how they got there. What a story!!
The existentialism of Dor Hashvii
What a guy ❤🔥
Agree
This episode is so special really a message for the masses doesn’t matter where you are what level your on everyone can take something special from this episode 🥃
Agreed
Yasher Koach. Chazak Ve’Ematz! Keep bringing us more Yechiday Segulah like Reb Nissan Shlit”a
One of my heroes. Thanks for this episode.
Amazing, BH.
Ends off with a bang! Thank you for another episode, this is great.
Very inspiring! Would be happy to hear another episode with Rabbi Mangel. Wishing him arichas yomim veshonim toivois! Thank you R' Ben Tziyon
Homesick for the old Lubavitcher .The Holy Rabbis of Lubavitch that started this Chassidus would not recognize this new version. Every G- d Fearing Chasidishe Yid is homesick for the REAL Lubavitch
Amazing! More of this please!
Rabbi winner said: “The Rebbe wanted from every בחור to be a חסיד, ירא שמים and a למדן and שליחות is the ultimate. If you ad a ש to חי״ל you get שליח. So it’s מדויק.
Beautiful content Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much, Bentzi!
hiskashrus is personal thing.
Exactly what today's generation needs to be hearing. Thank you Bentzy and Rabbi Winner.
This made my heart so happy! While searching for Yanki Tauber on TH-cam, I found this! What a Gem! @HomesickforLubavitch is fast becoming my favorit channel!
For me this is the best and most thought provoking episode so far
this is amazing, what a first episode to find out about this podcast.👑
This is gold
Rabbi Korn, do you know a Michael Korn who was at U of Chicago? He would be about 83 years old. He had a brother named Scott. I knew him in Chicago in 1970/71.
You got me there, lol
I don’t think there is a paradox in dealing with community issues and being open when the people who are dealing with it are themselves the leaders of the mainstream communities the problem is that the main stream leaders sometimes are to scared or closed to allow that openness and because of that outside people tackle these issues and they look in the eyes of the main stream like outsiders or changing the flow when all they are doing is healing a problem Especially for the people suffering when they realize that the people that are helping are the leaders of the mainstream it all the more so leads them back into the path to truth
Bro find some real love.
BH.
Where can someone who doesn’t have twitter see the diagram of the ox that dr zeligson drew?
Great episode, please experiment with angles, so we can see expression...
36:37 !
Keep up the good work
Amazing thank you
Very nice.
Please . . . This is not theology.
It is, just not Jewish theology.