Episode 91 - Cut The Tether To Yesterday
In this week’s Street Farbrengen, Reuven shares a gripping “Hasidic geneiva” Yechidus story that an elder chossid confided to him—how, at his brother’s bar mitzvah, he slipped the Rebbe a three-page letter about a toxic mashpia, his confusion, and the urge to leave yeshiva. The Rebbe’s response was razor-clear: in Lubavitch there are always two mashpiim—find the one you connect with; then “forget the past—have Kabbalas Ol—and your job is to learn.” From there, the conversation dives into Elul: what it really means to drop the victim narrative, choose responsibility, and serve with authentic joy—echoed through the Baal Shem Tov’s “kukarikoo” tale and Dr. Edith Eger’s insight that we are not prisoners of our past. A raw, timely exploration of exchanging gvul for bli-gvul—limits for boundlessness—and how Kabbalas Ol can cut the tether to yesterday so we can actually show up today.