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Send us a Text Message. The Black Fedora in the Cowboy State: Rabbi Zalman & Raizy Mendelsohn To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "I knew that Jackson Hole, being a tiny little town, would be somewhat overwhelming for Raizy to consider moving here full time...And she said, 'This place is beautiful, but can we perhaps consider other opportunities?'" - Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn "I felt suffocated and I said, “When I look to my right, there’s a mountain, and I look to my left, there’s a mountain. And I look in front, there’s a mountain. I look behind, there’s a mountain." - Rebbetzin Raizy Mendelsohn Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast

Send us a Text Message. A Sub-Saharan Brit Milah: Rabbi Moshe & Yocheved Raskin To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! "What’s the chance … that two people will come in the time of quarantine to Uganda, and one of them is a mohel? It's a major hasgacha pratit. I have a lady, she has a baby. And we need to make a bris." - Rabbi Moshe Raskin "And we're schmoozing, and I'm telling him, "I'm a shochet. If you need anything, I'm happy to do some slaughtering for you while I'm here. And I brought with me my Shechita knife." And I mentioned in passing that I'm a mohel." - Dr. Ari Greenspan Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast

Send us a Text Message. Fighting Fires and Pedaling Wine Bicycles: the Portland Jewish Oasis - Rabbi Chayim & Simi Mishulovin To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "It was a Friday night. We were just going to sleep, and all of a sudden I hear banging on the front door of my house. So we go to open the door, and we're told that the Chabad house is on fire." - Rabbi Chayim Mishulovin "It's hard for me to say this, but my whole life, I've either kept my Jewishness close to the chest, or I've outright hid it. And after having visited the burnt shul, I really felt like this is time for me to step into my Jewishness and to let it out in big, beautiful ways." - Mr. David Howitt "Sometimes it takes a broken spirit. A shattered heart could be the best vessel. But, wherever we are, Hashem is with us, helping us. The Oasis story, we could see the blessings in it." - Rebbetzin Simi Mishulovin Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Send us a Text Message. Holy High: How Milwaukee Became Home to a Revolutionary Jewish Prep School - Rabbi Yossi & Ilana Bassman To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "There was one instance where a bunch of kids over there brought this bag of chips, they gave it to me. And I was like, "You know, what could be wrong with chips?" And ate it. And then, afterwards, they were just mocking me. "Oh, that was pork rinds. The Jew ate pork rinds." - Gedaliah Liberman, Bader Hillel High '19 "If we're stepping up and taking ownership of the future of the Yiddishkeit, of the Jewish people, that begins and ends in authentic Jewish education. - Rabbi Yossi Bassman "I do remember, vividly, looking at my husband and telling him, "No, I seriously, I cannot plan a program. I wouldn't even be able to make a lesson plan. I can't even do that." And he looked me straight in the eye and he said, "Yes, you could." - Rebbetzin Ilana Bassman Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Refoel & Chani Silver: Sparkling Beaches, Tiki Torch Menorahs & Jewish Outreach in Curaçao To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com In June of 2017, Rabbi Refoel and Chani Silver boarded a plane for Curaçao on a fact-finding mission. "We had a meeting one evening at the Shul, and we called upon local members to come. And they had set up a lot, a lot, a lot of chairs, apparently expecting 40 to 50 people. A lot less people showed up. And there was a fellow that got up there, and he says, "Well, look around the room. There are so many empty chairs. Why would you come here?" I said, "You know, that's a great question. But my answer is if I would come here tonight and this room was full, then you don't need me here!” ” - Rabbi Refoel Silver "Beautiful beaches. There's an old town here with colored houses. There's the old synagogue, Shaarei Tzedek, which is a beautiful synagogue. Historical island, with a lot of culture. It's very international." - Rebbetzin Chani Silver "as I was walking down the stairs he looked up to me, he said, “Michael Metsch?" I said to him, "Rabbi Silver?" And he said to me, "Yes." And we went for a coffee. My wife also came. And the three of us sat for about an hour and a half, talking about all the issues in Curaçao." - Michael Metsch Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Send us a Text Message. From Beaches And Basketball To Torah And Mitzvahs: The Story of Perth’s “Meshugenahs” Featuring: Rabbi Dovid Birk, Michoel Ogince, Gilad Lurie, Yitz Feigenbaum & Aaron Lazer Goodman To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "I couldn’t understand. I was like, "One second; I saw a wetsuit in your bathroom." He says, "Yeah, I was out surfing this morning, Tel Aviv." I couldn't believe it. So I challenged him. I was like, "One second, how is it possible?" - Rabbi Dovid Birk "We skateboarded, we surfed, we went to the beach. We body surfed in the beach if we didn't have a surfboard." - Aaron Lazer Goodman Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American Heartland To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com "My phone was blowing up from the students. "You gotta come to campus. You gotta come to campus. And no one's telling me why. And I got worried.” - Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel "When someone enters our Chabad house, and not only the physical space of it, but in our relationship with the student, there is zero judgment and 100% acceptance... It's real, it's genuine. It's something that we learned from the Rebbe; to look at every Jew for who they are in their essence. And the trash in their life? We don't see, and we don't care." - Rebbetzin Nechama Tiechtel "At first, Zalman's beard turned like plaid, then polka-dotted after me telling him the nasty details of the things that I was going through... And then - I'll never forget it - he said to me, "I'm jealous of you." And I was like, "What?." - Charles Goldberg Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback!

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don "We drove cross country, sold my car on the East Coast, and we boarded a flight, a one way ticket, from JFK to Moscow and onto Rostov... We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim Danzinger "I didn't speak the language, so there was a lot of hand motions and just hugging and trying to break my teeth over Russian, and them breaking their teeth over English." - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don "Once I had finished with Moscow, I decided, ‘Okay, I'm done with this.’ " - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger "We have to go where we could make an impact, not necessarily to the place that is most convenient or most beautiful." “We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim Danzinger Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! This Lamplighters episode is dedicated in honor of Moshe Braun by the Braun children, who send their father all of their love and blessings on his birthday. We here at Lamplighters say “Amen” to that. Thank you very much to the Braun family for listening, and for supporting us in our mission to bring you inspiring stories of Chabad emissaries all over the world. To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. The Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter Himmelman PH: He {Rabbi Simon Jacobson} said, "A tzadik, he could do anything." You know, I said, "Well, can he fly?" RSJ: So I said, "I never saw him fly, to be honest.” PH: Which I liked. Maybe somebody could fly, he just hadn't seen it! RSJ: “But you have to remember that, for him, walking on earth was just as miraculous as flying." PH: And Simon looks at me, and he goes, "Understand one thing: to a tzadik, whether they're flying 30, 40, 50 feet above the ground or walking on the surface of it, it's all the same miracle." Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com - A Project of Machne Israel Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Ep. 34 - A searching teenager becomes a rabbi in his hometown: Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner "AOL Messenger had something amazing. When you put in the search certain words, it was scanning all the profiles of all the members of AOL. And when you put in the word “Chabad,” or you put in the word “rabbi,” you get a lot of rabbis... And that's the way how I found Rabbi Teichtal in Berlin." - Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a five-star review on the podcast platform and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Mendy & Mazal Sternbach: Lagos, Nigeria - A small Jewish community in an African city of 20 million "We had a meeting, and then we decided, "Okay, let's do that. Let's go for a year to Nigeria." My parents were not so happy about that … then. I mean, let's say you just Google "Nigeria." I'm guessing that the first few things that you will find are not something that parents want their daughter to go there. It doesn't sound so amazing. But then they had a talk with the shluchim, and they realized that we don't have terrorists walking around, and we’re pretty safe. And they were more relaxed." -- Rebbetzin Mazal Sternbach "They see me with a yarmulke. They walk over to me and they say, "You're a Jew, you're from the Bible, you're Moses." They tell us "You're the chosen people." " -- Rabbi Mendy Sternbach Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz: Connecting Two Generations Of Rabbis In A Boston NICU "Somebody please get me a Chabad rabbi. The surgery is going to take place in 2 hours. I just need someone to come and pray.” - Jacer Collins "I ran over, dropped everything, and went to Children's Hospital, the 7th floor... She pulled me towards the crib, tiny little crib. You know, what do you say?... The only thing that came out of my mouth was the following; "G-d can do anything. Let's pray for a miracle." - Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Merging Torah And Science: Lessons From The Life Of Dr. Binyomin Abrams "I'm riding my moped down Commonwealth Avenue, and one of the students snaps a photo of me with my beard flying in the wind, tzitzis flying everywhere... They post it on Facebook and write, "So excited to be coming to Boston University. Where else are you going to see an Amish person riding a moped?" Then the comments start coming in. The first comment is, "Hey, I don't think the Amish are allowed to ride mopeds." And the second one was, "Hey, stop telling the Amish what they are and aren't allowed to do." And then the last comment was, "I don't think he's Amish. I think that's a Chassidic Jewish person … and I think he's our chemistry professor!" - Dr. Binyomin Abrams Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Dovid & Elisa Gurevich: World's First Chabad on Campus Still Going Strong I was aware of being Jewish, but not much else. I don't think I knew what Rosh Hashanah was, growing up... And did not have even a Bar Mitzvah." - Rabbi Dovid Gurevich "And I saw the guy with the big beard and the hat. And I was like, "Oh, yeah, I got to talk to that guy!" - Jonathan Wilson Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Michoel & Zisel Goldman: Everything Grows on Kauai … Why Not Yiddishkeit? "Kauai is a magnet for the most amazing souls. And I have stories that could fill a book of interesting characters that we've met over the years." "My wife is a city girl. To live on Kauai was very hard for her, and she was honest about it. It was very remote, very lonely. And you're 5,000 miles away from your family. So it was very hard for her." - Rabbi Michoel Goldman Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. From Kabul To Fremont: An Afghan Family Moves Into A Chabad House - Rabbi Moshe & Chaya Fuss "When Malek told his story and the details of it, how his wife was beaten and how he had no hope, hearing a first hand account, it was horrendous.. We were listening to the story, and we were all just in tears... I guess you hear these stories in the news, and you read them, and they're real and you know they're real. But, when you actually hear it from a real person and you're sitting at a table, it really breaks your heart." - Rebbetzin Chaya Fuss Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. From 'Grateful Dead' fans to Chabad emissaries: Rabbi Dov Yona & Sarah Korn "And I walk in, and I look like said “circus.” And it was a wild farbrengen. And, at four in the morning, we're singing "Ay nay, nay nay..." dancing on the tables. I couldn't help but feel these songs were inside me. .." - Rabbi Dov Yona Korn "And that's when I really had my awakening. Because I think that sometimes your neshama just comes so full force when you're in such an alien environment, that it was like, "Whoa! Get yourself to Crown Heights, girl. What are you doing here?'" - Rebbetzin Sarah Korn Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. From Revolutionary Iran To Outreach In California: Rabbi Danny Yiftach-Hashem “Our ‘fun’ going back from school to home was to find empty shells, casings of bullets on the streets.... quite quickly, I figured out no matter what happens here, which side is going to be the winner, the chaos seems to be permanent.” - Rabbi Danny Yiftach-Hashem Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com

Send us a Text Message. Rabbi Yisrael & Vivi Deren: Transforming Unfathomable Loss Into Jewish Light And Warmth Featuring: Former Senator Joe Lieberman How ‘The Concert’ Helped Establish The Derens’ Jewish Outreach In The Northeast We're opening a Chabad house. In those days, Jews - frum Jews - didn't know what the word "Chabad house" meant. ‘We pulled out all stops and no expense spared. This is going to be the greatest [concert] ever’ - Rabbi Yisroel Deren Narrated by: Gary Waleik Produced by: Gary Waleik & Shneur Brook for Lubavitch International/Lubavitch.com Available on all major podcast platforms - and online at Lubavitch.com/podcast Did you enjoy listening to this episode? Leave us a review and/or email us at Podcast@Lubavitch.com - we truly value your feedback! To inquire about dedicating an episode - please email podcast@lubavitch.com