Ep. 94 // "Talking the Unfathomable" w/ Rabbi Mendy Katz

Rabbi Mendy Katz grew up in Miami Beach as part of what was then a very small Chabad community and lives today in Surfside where he works as a director of programs at The Aleph Institute.In this episode, we discuss his growing up in Miami Beach and leaving in the mid 1980s to study in yeshiva in Los Angeles and then Crown Heights.We discuss the euphoric atmosphere in Crown Heights in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the devastating impact of the events that followed.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected]____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Rabbi Herschel Lustig was the dean of Oholei Torah Yeshiva, the largest Chabad boys school in America, for more than forty years and today serves as the Dean Emeritus.In this episode, he shares his own personal background of how his family came to Lubavitch and how he studied in different yeshivos before coming to 770.He shares memories from the formative years of Oholei Torah yeshiva that began as a very small cheder, and the input he received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Hodakov in how to build a new kind of school with old home values but in America.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected]____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Reb Yitzchok Gniwisch survived World War II as a young infant together with his father and lives today in Montreal with his wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.In this episode, he shares his heartwarming story of the years after the war where he was welcomed into the world of Lubavitch by countless individuals who were excited to have "one more bochur in yeshiva."This is a story about a world of kindness, generosity and friendship.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected]____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Rabbi Ronnie Fine is a shliach in the Queen Mary neighborhood of Montreal.He grew up in Toronto in a secular Israeli family, and his exploration as a teenager took him to Ohr Sameach in Jerusalem, then to Ner Yisroel in Toronto where he met Rabbi Ezra Schochet who was teaching there at the time.In this episode, Rabbi Fine compares the journeys of the baal teshuvas of his time with those of today, namely the difference between changing your life because of an idea or because of your identity.Rabbi Fine's Shiurim can be found online at: https://www.youtube.com/tanyarabbi____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected]____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz is the dean of Academie Beis Rivka in Montreal, Canada.In this episode, he shares his memories growing up in Paris in the years following World War II before moving with his family to Brooklyn, NY where he studied in the famous Bedford and Dean yeshiva and then 770.He talks about being part of the first group of bochurim sent as shluchim to the Yeshiva Gedolah in Melbourne, Australia, and what it was like to be a Lubavitch bochur in the 1960s.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected]____Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Rabbi Lazer Gurkow is a shliach in London, Ontario where he serves as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Tefilah.In this episode, Rabbi Gurkow shares his memories of growing up in Boston in the home of two parents who themselves grew up in the Soviet Union, and his leaving home at six years old to study in Brooklyn.He discusses the difference between being a parent then and today, how a chossid has to adapt to his times, and how this informs his own perspective today.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden____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: [email protected] with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com

Reb Simcha Gottleib lives today in North Miami Beach where he practices Chinese medicine and works on different literary projects.Back in the 1960s he lived on a probiotic farm in Binghamton, NY where he and his friends sought refuge from the excesses of both the cultural standard bearers and the hippies that sought to tear them down.It was there that he met Reb Meir Abuhesera which would lead him and many of his friends to end up, of all places, in the Lubavitch community of Crown Heights.In this episode Simcha shares his fascinating journey and we discuss the gift of openness the chassidic newcomer has and the challenge of retaining it as time goes on.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden____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: [email protected] with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com

Mrs Hadassah Carlebach was born in the Soviet Union less than a decade after the Communist revolution to Rabbi and Mrs Shneur Zalman Schneerson, second cousins of the Rebbe Rayatz.In this episode, she shares vivid memories of growing up during those times, as observed from the unique vantage point of her family, before leaving for Paris with her family just several years before World War II.She speaks about immigrating to the United States after the war, the visits she made to the Rebbetzins as one of their few surviving cousins, and her impressions of a Lubavitch that was changing but at the same time was very much the same.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to [email protected]____Thank you to Reuven Medalie for hosting this conversation at one of his rentals just a block from 770. To find out more about renting this space for your next say in Crown Heights, please contact him at: 646-710-0007.____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldi...____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: [email protected] with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com

Reb Don Wolf grew up and lives today in Melbourne, Australia where he runs a real estate and construction business.The child of Holocaust survivors, Don grew up in a traditional household that slowly became closer to the Lubavitch community in Melbourne at the time, a group of fascinating individuals led by Reb Zalman Serebryanski, Rabbi Itche Dovid Groner, Reb Nochum Zalman Gurevich and many more.This relationship led Don to study at the Yeshiva Gedolah which he thought would be followed by several years of studying at 770, only for a surprising Yechidus to change those plans.In this episode, Don shares his formative years in Melbourne, the influence these different individuals had on him, both as a young student and eventually as a prominent lay-leader in the community.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to [email protected]____Thank you to Reuven Medalie for hosting this conversation at one of his rentals just a block from 770. To find out more about renting this space for your next say in Crown Heights, please contact him at: 646-710-0007.____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldi...____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: [email protected] with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe lives today in Springfield, MA where he serves as the rabbi at Congregation Bnei Torah.In this episode, we discuss the "temimus," the simple faith, of his grandfather who served in the British armed forces during World War I, and how one can work to retain that simple faith.We also discuss the chassidic approach to temimus, how intellect can sometimes seem to threaten simple faith, and how the two can work together.____Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to [email protected]____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: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldi...____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: [email protected] with BentziWebsite | ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com