ChabadTalk Podcast
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Chabad.org: Tzvi Freeman · Chabad.org
Show overview
ChabadTalk Podcast has been publishing since 2001, and across the 25 years since has built a catalogue of 94 episodes. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow an irregular cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 10 min and 22 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is still active — the most recent episode landed 3 weeks ago, though releases have slowed compared with earlier in the run. The busiest year was 2020, with 22 episodes published. Published by Chabad.org.
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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.
Latest Episodes
View all 94 episodesWhat Is a Yetzer Hara and How Do I Get Rid of It?
How Does Kosher Work?
Six Misconceptions of the Modern Mind
Holiness Is a Crack in the Wall
The Four Worlds
In any one space, at any one time, endless worlds of perception coincide.
Is AI the New Tower of Babel?
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.
Three Steps to Focused Meditation: Chochmah, Binah, Da’at
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.
Seven Haggadah Passages That Must Bug You
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, the Jewish People, Are a Single Body
We’re human beings. How can the Torah expect you to not hold a grudge against someone who has hurt you?
How to Avoid Fanaticism, by Rabbi Akiva and His Students
Can you believe you have the truth, be ready to give your life for it, and nevertheless leave space for others?
God in Judaism
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.
How Did Academia Fail So Badly?
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.
Clothing for the Soul
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.
Should I Care What Other People Think of Me?
Instead of sweating over what everyone is thinking of you, spend that energy just being a nice guy.
Abraham’s Ultimate Test
Abraham constructed a ladder up to G-d. A ladder of insight and enlightenment. Then G-d pulled the ladder out from under him.
What I Told 1,200 Jewish Students Last Shabbat
Be Abraham. Take ownership. Shatter the narrative. Don’t let hatred define you.
So You’ve Got a Chunk of G-d Inside 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.
What Is a Soul?
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.
Who Created G‑d?
The Creator of all boundaries is unbounded by any definition. Otherwise, He too would require a creator.
Why the Torah Was Given to a Nation of Trauma Survivors
If you're going to bring the ultimate divine wisdom into the world, why are shattered souls the channel for its reception?