Over the past couple months, Lubavitch filmmaker Bentzi Avtzon has been interviewing other Lubavitchers as part of his new project, “Homesick for Lubavitch: A Podcast.”
Exploring the question of Lubavitch identity in the year 2023, the podcast features conversations with people of all kinds of occupations, age and even affiliation.
One episode features a conversation with a shliach. A second episode hosts a powerlifter. A third episode speaks to a captain in the United States Air Force.
“The goal of the podcast is to get a better handle on what people are thinking about their Lubavitch identity today,” Avtzon explains, “and there is no better way to find that out than to sit down and actually speak to them.”
In the first episode, Bentzi’s guest is Rabbi Yossi Nemes, a shliach for more than thirty years in Metairie, Louisiana. They discuss the question of Lubavitch identity back in the ’80s, how it was asked back then and how it would compare to the question being asked today.
“Many of the episodes will be with people from a later generation asking this question from a very different place,” Avtzon says, “but knowing this question has been asked before is a great way to frame this conversation.”
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Now, we also talk about Chasidim. Seriously, read Beis Moshiach and you will see.
Any focus on the Rebbe is like a child who looks up to a parentor teacher. A teenager wants to become independent, but a healthy teen does not stop honoring the parent and consciously owe the parent his life.
I disagree about what you say about an army. A soldier fights for a cause and knows he must win, for the sake of his wife and kids. He is not a number before he fights nor after. During the war, you have to let go of personal desires and work as a team. And that allows for more freedom to be an individual serving G-d. As far as Malchus. When the nation will “vote in” Moshiach, he will have a platform and individuals ( talmidei chachamim) who are experts in their fields (e.g. health or finance ministers,) operating under… Read more »