Lamplighters

Send us Fan MailThe Caribbean's Best-Kept Jewish Secret: Rabbi Avromy & Sternie SuperTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!"We knew, going in, that the permanent Jewish community is very small. The local Jewish community is very, very unaffiliated. There are a handful of people that both husband and wife are Jewish. Most people are very secular. Think of it; who moves to an island that has no Jewish community, that has no shul, that has no Jewish infrastructure? But we were there to provide that." - Rabbi Avromy Super“My husband literally dropped pins on Google and would research the place, call shluchim nearby, find out if it's a place that could have shluchim.” - Rebbetzin Sternie Super“He had already assembled people that we had never seen on this island. And so that right away was creating a community where there was none.” - Rena & Andrew SouthernProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailThe Jewish Awakening of Vancouver IslandTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“And so if you're asking if, when we came here, people were waiting for us with flowers and balloons at the airport, the answer is no."- Rabbi Meir Kaplan“We knew very little about the place before we came here. I thought Canada is basically a big pile of ice.” - Rebbetzin Chani Kaplan“My husband had started learning with Rabbi Kaplan. He started going to shul at Chabad. One day he came home and these were his words. He said, "I have found my Rabbi." That was it.” - Lindy ShorttProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailThe Storm That Nearly Swept Away Everything They BuiltTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“Our first Friday night after the hurricane, we had a local person who came to us. She says, “Rabbi, I didn't eat for three days." And in the darkness, we sat our first Friday night. We had, you know, canned food and I was able to put up some rice. So we had a little hot food. She was just crying and just saying, “Thank you."- Rabbi Yaakov Raskin“The wind was very, very strong. My husband quickly took all our bed frames out of all the bedrooms, and the couches, and started, like, pushing it against those glass doors, or else we would be completely flooded.” - Rebbetzin Mushkee Raskin“IBig yacht in the middle of the highway. Multi ton cement poles across the road, like sticks. Spaghetti of wires, live, everywhere.” - Mark RosenblumProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailKosher Corned Beef On The Emerald Isle: Rabbi Zalman & Rifky LentTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“The Jewish community here had been kind of hemorrhaging people. There was a bit of panic. They'd sold one of the beautiful old shuls, the Adelaide Road Synagogue. There was an amalgamation of communities. And they said, “Okay, let's do something to stop the hemorrhaging."- Rabbi Zalman Lent“There're non-Jews who come in every single day. One of our hopes when we opened the Deli was that this would be a place where non-Jews could actually kind of be exposed to Judaism.” - Rebbetzin RIfky Lent“It seemed like, no matter how many people went, the space grew to accommodate. Chairs would come from nowhere.” - Simon HarrisonProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailThe Question That Changed Their Shlichus: Rabbi Peretz & Chanie CheinTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“What change am I having in their lives?" Because when you ask yourself, "What change am I having in their lives?", then you have to confront, “Maybe I'm not.” - Rabbi Peretz Chein“It's not enough that I ask students to do something about their Judaism. What am I doing about my own Judaism?” - Rebbetzin Chanie CheinProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailThey Looked Everywhere - And Chose Zambia: Rabbi Mendy & Rivky HertzelTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“She's from Alaska originally, so there was no question that she will go to shlichus as well. The question was just if she's ready to go even to Africa. And I asked when we were dating, "Are you ready to go to Africa?" She said, "Of course!”  - Rabbi Mendy Hertzel"What's a ‘rabbi’? Why are you coming here?” “Are we giving a Zambian job opportunity away?” We said, "No, don't worry about it. No Zambians want to become rabbis." - Rebbetzin Rivky Hertzel"I would never have ever imagined becoming as included in a Jewish dynamic Jewish environment if it had not been for them. I probably would not have allowed myself to be exposed to Jewish tradition." - Saul Radunsky Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailThe Once-Reluctant Speaker Who Reaches Millions: Rabbi Manis FriedmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“I was the most introverted, the most bashful, the most timid. Public speaking? Are you kidding?... One year, the yeshiva declared that every bocher is going to have a shul, and you have to go there Shabbos afternoon and teach a sicha. The Mashpia said, "No exceptions." I said, "No, you got to be kidding." He said, "There are going to be no exceptions.”  - Rabbi Manis FriedmanProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailThe Rabbi Everyone Knows, From the Town Few Have Heard of: Rabbi Dovid EliezrieTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“The day he was diagnosed, I was also supposed to sign the contract for building my building. And I was in a moral dilemma what I should do.”  - Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie"I've been to his house, he's been to my house. And every often will say, "Okay, take off your Chabad hat, and my Young Israel hat. And what's good for the Jewish people?” And that's been our trademark." - Rabbi Pesach LernerProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailFacing Cancer Together: A Rabbi and His Community - Rabbi Yossi & Malki RodalTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“About four months ago, I went to the dentist... There was an ulcer on my tongue. They asked how long it had been there and told me to get it checked out.... To my complete shock, it came back positive for oral cancer on my tongue, and they scheduled surgery right away.”  - Rabbi Yossi Rodal"As we were walking down the driveway towards Kmart, I hear some like commotion behind me. And I turned around to see this woman kind of waving her arms wildly and calling out to us. And as I turned, she barrels past me into the arms of my husband, gives him this massive bear hug, and then backs off and says, "Oh, my gosh, I know I'm not supposed to hug a rabbi. I am so sorry!" - Rebbetzin Malki RodalProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show

Send us Fan MailA California Rabbi’s Mission Behind Prison Walls: Rabbi Yochanan FriedmanTo inquire about dedicating an episode - please email [email protected] you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at [email protected] - we truly value your feedback!“What we found here was that it's an incredibly challenging shlichus environment. There's a lot of spiritual complacency here. Not that people aren't spiritual, but that they feel that they already have what they're looking for spiritually. And it’s not what we were selling, so to speak. ”  - Rabbi Yochanan Friedman"I was sitting on a park bench with a woman who had a lot of piercings. And she looked at me and she said, "What's going to happen first? Am I going to become religious, or you're going to get the piercings?" - Rebbetzin Baily FriedmanProduced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne IsraelAvailable on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcastSupport the show