ChabadTalk Podcast

Thirteen essays and stories that explore the what, why and how of of the most powerful force known to man--the power of self-transformation

What does it actually mean?

The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.

There’s an essential difference between kosher foods and non-kosher. And your body knows that difference.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.