Episode 110 - Life is a Farbrengen. Are You Walking Out Elevated?
This week on Street Farbrengen, we ask a question that somehow took us 100+ episodes to articulate:
Why are we called Street Farbrengen — when we’re sitting at a dining room table?
As the Alter Rebbe teaches, a name reflects the essence of what is named — then what are we actually are we and what are we doing each week?
We revisit a powerful teaching from the Previous Rebbe:
A farbrengen is meant to elevate a person — and only after that look back and see his past differently.
Not self-destruction.
Not rumination.
Not spiritual carcass-picking.
Elevation first.
Clarity second.
And then we ask:
Why does Jewish culture sometimes default to tearing down before building up?
Why do we assume growth must begin with guilt?
Why are we uncomfortable believing we can actually rise?
From Tony Robbins to Tanya, from Purim to Har Sinai, from childhood wounds to “Is this BS?” — this episode goes deep into the psychology of doubt, the courage of elevation, and the difference between Mussar and Chassidus.
Street smarts means knowing how to navigate the world.
Street Farbrengen means learning how to run the street — instead of letting the street run you.
Life is a farbrengen.
The question is: are you walking out elevated?
Listen in.