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ChabadTalk Podcast

Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

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  1. 50

    The Four Worlds

    In any one space, at any one time, endless worlds of perception coincide.

  2. 49

    Is AI the New Tower of Babel?

    When you use technology without a purpose, you are no longer its master. You are its slave. From limestone to LLM, the truth is the same.

  3. 48

    Three Steps to Focused Meditation: Chochmah, Binah, Da’at

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  4. 47

    Seven Haggadah Passages That Must Bug You

    The Hagagadah is alive, and nothing that’s alive can be made to fit into neat parcels of sensible data. But there's some leads.

  5. 46

    We, the Jewish People, Are a Single Body

    We’re human beings. How can the Torah expect you to not hold a grudge against someone who has hurt you?

  6. 45

    How to Avoid Fanaticism, by Rabbi Akiva and His Students

    Can you believe you have the truth, be ready to give your life for it, and nevertheless leave space for others?

  7. 44

    God in Judaism

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  8. 43

    How Did Academia Fail So Badly?

    Lurking beneath a scholar’s cloak on our best college campuses, the same raw hatred that Hitler’s professors rationalized persists. This time, sane academics must speak up and take action.

  9. 42

    Clothing for the Soul

    The signature metaphor in Tanya to describe all human activity, popping up in some form or another on almost every page, is clothing. Life, according to Tanya, is less about who you are and more about what you wear.

  10. 41

    Should I Care What Other People Think of Me?

    Instead of sweating over what everyone is thinking of you, spend that energy just being a nice guy.

  11. 40

    Abraham’s Ultimate Test

    Abraham constructed a ladder up to G-d. A ladder of insight and enlightenment. Then G-d pulled the ladder out from under him.

  12. 39

    What I Told 1,200 Jewish Students Last Shabbat

    Be Abraham. Take ownership. Shatter the narrative. Don’t let hatred define you.

  13. 38

    So You’ve Got a Chunk of G-d Inside You

    Within each of us is a breath of the divine, a neshamah. Everything else is created by speech. She is created by breath and by thought. Everything else is obsessed with being just what it is. But the neshamah hears the music of creation and yearns for it to be heard.

  14. 37

    What Is a Soul?

    Just as we invoke the existence of a force of gravity to explain things falling and an electromagnetic force to explain a host of otherwise very mysterious phenomena, so we invoke the existence of a soul-force to explain our inner experience of being alive, conscious, and self-directed.

  15. 36

    Who Created G‑d?

    The Creator of all boundaries is unbounded by any definition. Otherwise, He too would require a creator.

  16. 35

    Why the Torah Was Given to a Nation of Trauma Survivors

    If you're going to bring the ultimate divine wisdom into the world, why are shattered souls the channel for its reception?

  17. 34

    How Moses Saved Egyptian Civilization

    Wherever your soul has taken you, there must be something of profound value that you uncovered there.

  18. 33

    The Last Two Mitzvahs

    Why were we given the command to gather every seven years right when Moses was about to pass away?

  19. 32

    “We Will Be As Dreamers”

    Today we live inside a dream. In time, everything will be possible. We will be free.

  20. 31

    How Do Mezuzahs Work?

    How on earth does a parchment scroll with Hebrew inscriptions increase your personal safety? Here is how the great rabbis understood it.

  21. 30

    How to Believe in Heaven When It Hurts Like Hell

    An interview with the author of “Why G d, Why?”.

  22. 29

    The Tzaddik and the Dragon of Darkness I

    You bathed in the honey-sweet, divine glow that saturates every one of the endless strata of gardens of Eden, each with its particular flavor of light, its own taste of ecstasy. Bliss unlimited. And then you got the call.

  23. 28

    A Yom Kippur Love Story

    How to listen to the voice of your own heart—advice from a meditation of the Alter Rebbe.

  24. 27

    Repentance Is a Scam

    Why waste the holiest day of the year dwelling on everything you messed up?

  25. 26

    When Blessings Come Cloaked in Darkness

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  26. 25

    The Unusual Psychology of the Mitzvah Campaigns

    Where did the Rebbe's radically new strategy come from? Was it smart psychology or something else?

  27. 24

    Should You Love Yourself?

    True love is love of your inner self, that inner mysterious beauty that can never be soiled or blemished.

  28. 23

    Passover and the Art of Self-Transcendence

    In denial, we humans are the oblivious jackhammer at the symphony, pounding away at the foundations of our environment, ripping the very fibers of the cosmic order.

  29. 22

    What Is Bittul?

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  30. 21

    I Came Into My Garden, 5710 (Chapter 1)

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  31. 20

    Everything Is Constantly Rising Higher and Nothing You Can Do Can Stop It

    Along the route of every bad turn, a new path of even greater ascent has just opened.

  32. 19

    A Jewish Environmental Cosmology

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  33. 18

    The End of Torah

    What did Moses accomplish by shattering the tablets?

  34. 17

    Is Rosh Hashanah a Patriarchal Holiday?

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  35. 16

    What Did the Rebbe Say to the Anti-Religious Chief Justice Who Came for Simchat Torah?

    What do you do if you’re celebrating with friends, and the man who opposes you turns up at the party?

  36. 15

    3,333 Years Since the Ten Commandments

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  37. 14

    How the Science of Racism Led to the Holocaust

    Can the world survive on ethics devised by human reason? Well, we tried. It’s called the 20th century.

  38. 13

    The Passover Seder Is a Disruptive Ritual

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  39. 12

    Is Passover Headed Towards Obsolescence?

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  40. 11

    It’s Us Against Us, But You Can Save the World

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  41. 10

    Why Is Work Permitted on Chanukah and Purim?

    These days are so special, their energy can reach down into our everyday world and everyday activities and make even that shine. As King Solomon taught, “In all your ways, know G‑d.”

  42. 9

    Why Don't We Read a Megillah on Chanukah?

    The miracle of Chanukah, is about shining light outward, and to the outside. The original requirements for the Chanukah menorah stipulate that it be lit only once it is dark. And where? “At the door of your house, on the outside.” Why? As the Talmud states, “to publicize the miracle.”

  43. 8

    How Is It Possible that Enlightened Reasoning Could Bring to Spiteful Bigotry?

    This is the light of G-d’s wisdom. It’s not there for our use that we can manipulate it and modify it to fit our needs and desires. If we’re able to figure a little bit of it out, well, that’s pretty amazing. But if we can’t, that doesn’t change its truth one iota.

  44. 7

    Why Get Married?

    Marriage has been getting a bad rap lately, and it’s entirely unjustified. Decades of studies on human wellbeing provide the same conclusions consistently . . .

  45. 6

    The Sixth Millennium and the Age of Moshiach

    Does time, as well, have a topography?

  46. 5

    Do Jews Believe in Heaven?

    An overview of fundamental Jewish beliefs concerning reward and the afterlife

  47. 4

    The Isolationists of Sodom and Gomorrah

    It turns out that the greatest need of all is not to be needed, but to need others.

  48. 3

    On Simchat Torah, a Jew Never Dances Alone

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

  49. 2

    Seven Teachings of Seven Tzadikim for Seven Joyous Nights of Sukkot

    A Torah teaching for each night, from that night's Chassidic "visitor."

  50. 1

    Why Would an Atheist Pray?

    Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

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Chabad.org: Tzvi Freeman

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Listen to compelling podcasts by Tzvi Freeman and let him turn your world on its head as he probes the mysteries of life, purpose and the Jewish People.

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