Rabbi Uri Perlman grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania and founded the Wilkes Yeshiva which is now based in the nearby town of Canadensis.In this episode, he shares what it was like growing up in a small town community and his crisis of identity that ultimately led him on the journey that would culminate with him opening the yeshiva.We discuss how the position and tone of yeshivas towards bochurim are changing and need to change more even if the core mission stays 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]____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 Moshe Genuth grew up in Cleveland and Eretz Yisroel and today works as a secretary to Rabbi Yitzchok Ginsburgh at the Gal Einai Institute.In this episode, he shares his own journey to the study of chassidus, his initial hesitations to becoming a chossid and what led him to move past them.We discuss his thinking on ego and bittul and how this translates into a world immersed in self-reflection and inner dialogue.____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 Zalman Lieberow grew up in London, England and is a shliach today in Flatbush.In this episode, we discuss his memories of how his grandfather, Reb Mendel Futerfas, dealt with the tragic events that shaped Zalman's early life.We also discuss his arriving to 770 as a bochur in the late 80s and the events in the subsequent years that shaped his perspective.____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 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