Rabbi Gershon Avtzon grew up in Crown Heights and lives today in Cincinatti where he is the founder of Yeshivas Lubavitch.In this episode he shares his growing up in Crown Heights in the 1980s and the changes in the decades that followed.We discuss the resulting changes in education and how this impacts how students are taught to experience reality. This week's episode is sponsored by Moully Arts.Join the many shluchim who are raising the bar for what a public menorah can look like with Yitzchok Moully's new Public Art Menorah.This new menorah is both modern and iconic and can be used as both a seasonal as well as a permanent installation.For more details, please contact Yitzchok at 908 448 1417 or visit MoullyArt.com Support the upcoming mega series of HFL Australia at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/australiaIf you would like to dedicate or sponsor an episode please reach out to: [email protected] Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected] This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Rabbi Gedalia Potash grew up in the 1980s in the Lubavitch community of Stamford Hill and today is a shliach in the Noe Valley area of San Francisco. In this episode, he shares his memories growing up as a boy in London, the chassidic atmosphere and sense of connection to 770, and his regular visits that culminated with the special Tishrei of 1991. We discuss the importance of living in the current moment, and the way memories can change how we view the past. This week's episode is sponsored by Moully Arts. Join the many shluchim who are raising the bar for what a public menorah can look like with Yitzchok Moully's new Public Art Menorah. This new menorah is both modern and iconic and can be used as both a seasonal as well as a permanent installation. For more details, please contact Yitzchok at 908 448 1417 or visit MoullyArt.com Support the upcoming mega series of HFL Australia at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/australia If you would like to dedicate or sponsor an episode please reach out to: [email protected] Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected] This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani. Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by. Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community. For more info please visit: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Rabbi Betzalel Marinovsky grew up as a young boy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan under the rule of the Soviet Union until an earthquake allowed his family to emigrate to Israel. In this episode, he shares the unbelievable story of faith and survival of the Marinovsky family through the invasion of the Germans in World War II and then decades under communism, supported by the belief that there are two worlds. We discuss his eventual move to the United States to study in Morristown and eventually his move to Houston to serve as a shliach, which eventually brought him full circle when Russian immigrants arrived after the fall of the Soviet Union. Support the upcoming mega series of HFL Australia at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/australiaIf you would like to dedicate or sponsor an episode please reach out to: [email protected] Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected] This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani. Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by. Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community. For more info please visit: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

To celebrate the 100th episode, HFL hosted a live event in Crown Heights attended by friends and listeners of the podcast with a Q&A of HFL host, Bentzi Avtzon, moderated by Shaul Wolf.In this episode, we share the recording of the Q&A where Bentzi answers questions about the inspiration behind the podcast and lessons he learned along the way. Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected] Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected] This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

Rabbi Zalman Lieberow grew up in London, England and is a shliach today in Flatbush.In this episode, we discuss his memories of how his grandfather, Reb Mendel Futerfas, dealt with the tragic events that shaped Zalman's early life.We also discuss his arriving to 770 as a bochur in the late 80s and the events in the subsequent years that shaped his perspective. Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donateIf you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected] Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video.If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected] This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani.Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by.Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community.For more info please visit: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden

R' Mendel Duchman lives in Los Angeles and is a businessman, business coach and motivational speaker. He is also, to my mind, one of today's most outspoken motivators and cheerleaders for shluchim and Lubavitch around the world. But while R' Mendel very much lives in "today," he is also a staunch defender of the idea of "gezhe," or the value of holding on to one's past that can be traced to the old home back in Russia. While "gezhe" has come to mean all kinds of things today, in our conversation we discuss how the past is an important part of today's story and something that needs to be better understood, even celebrated.

Rabbi Herschel Lustig was the dean of Oholei Torah Yeshiva, the largest Chabad boys school in America, for more than forty years and today serves as the Dean Emeritus. In this episode, he shares his own personal background of how his family came to Lubavitch and how he studied in different yeshivos before coming to 770. He shares memories from the formative years of Oholei Torah yeshiva that began as a very small cheder, and the input he received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Hodakov in how to build a new kind of school with old home values but in America. Support this podcast at: https://www.hflpodcast.com/donate If you would like to sponsor an episode or advertise on the podcast please reach out to: [email protected] Homesick for Lubavitch is a project of Yuvla Media, a boutique video production company that helps organizations around the country share their story through video. If you are looking to make a video for a milestone dinner, online fundraiser or building campaign, please reach out to schedule a fifteen minute call at: [email protected] This week's episode is brought to you by "This World Is A Garden," a new film and live concert production by Yuvla Media based on the Rebbe's first talk, Bosi Lgani. Combining beautiful cinematography with a live performance by a string quartet, this production is a meditation on hope and holding on to a vision even as time passes by. Now you can bring this groundbreaking experience of Bosi Lgani to your community. For more info please visit: ⁠https://www.yuvlamedia.com/thisworldisagarden