ChabadTalk Podcast

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.

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?

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.

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.

The Creator of all boundaries is unbounded by any definition. Otherwise, He too would require a creator.

If you're going to bring the ultimate divine wisdom into the world, why are shattered souls the channel for its reception?

Wherever your soul has taken you, there must be something of profound value that you uncovered there.

Judaism has been understood as the effort to reunite the feminine and masculine aspects of G-d.

Why were we given the command to gather every seven years right when Moses was about to pass away?

Today we live inside a dream. In time, everything will be possible. We will be free.

How on earth does a parchment scroll with Hebrew inscriptions increase your personal safety? Here is how the great rabbis understood it.

An interview with the author of “Why G d, Why?”.

You bathed in the honey-sweet, divine glow that saturates every one of the endless strata of gardens of Eden, each with its particular flavor of light, its own taste of ecstasy. Bliss unlimited. And then you got the call.

How to listen to the voice of your own heart—advice from a meditation of the Alter Rebbe.

Why waste the holiest day of the year dwelling on everything you messed up?

Where did the Rebbe's radically new strategy come from? Was it smart psychology or something else?

True love is love of your inner self, that inner mysterious beauty that can never be soiled or blemished.

In denial, we humans are the oblivious jackhammer at the symphony, pounding away at the foundations of our environment, ripping the very fibers of the cosmic order.

Along the route of every bad turn, a new path of even greater ascent has just opened.

What did Moses accomplish by shattering the tablets?

What do you do if you’re celebrating with friends, and the man who opposes you turns up at the party?

Can the world survive on ethics devised by human reason? Well, we tried. It’s called the 20th century.

These days are so special, their energy can reach down into our everyday world and everyday activities and make even that shine. As King Solomon taught, “In all your ways, know G‑d.”

The miracle of Chanukah, is about shining light outward, and to the outside. The original requirements for the Chanukah menorah stipulate that it be lit only once it is dark. And where? “At the door of your house, on the outside.” Why? As the Talmud states, “to publicize the miracle.”

This is the light of G-d’s wisdom. It’s not there for our use that we can manipulate it and modify it to fit our needs and desires. If we’re able to figure a little bit of it out, well, that’s pretty amazing. But if we can’t, that doesn’t change its truth one iota.

Marriage has been getting a bad rap lately, and it’s entirely unjustified. Decades of studies on human wellbeing provide the same conclusions consistently . . .

Does time, as well, have a topography?

It turns out that the greatest need of all is not to be needed, but to need others.

Unpredictable + Self-Conscious = Free Choice. Bingo, we have a formula for free-choice figments!

A great source of optimism, strength and courage for generations of chassidim who have treasured and memorized its words, especially in challenging times, its final lines form the basis of the well-known advice of the Tzemach Tzedek, "Think good and it will be good."

When your ship is tossed by raging waves, don’t dispose of your anchor.

Happiness is an explosive. Happiness blows holes through every barrier. It starts with the ultimate barrier.

It’s your brain, after all, and it's still the most sophisticated device we know of. Why shouldn’t you be the exclusive user?

Much as our sense of touch knows a thing through manipulation, so too our minds.

I like to sit and think. People think I’m mad. Try it.

Even as the cold blade of a sharp sword lies upon your neck…

Only you can fix yourself. What does a particular day of the year have to offer?

Maybe we’ve got everything 100% wrong. Because if we’re thinking the holidays are backward, it’s likely we’ve got their meanings backward.

What happens if you gain wisdom but refuse to grow up?

Return bullets with flowers. Lie low. Ponder what you like about this person. And then defuse the whole situation with a smile.

A king had three friends. But he was informed that they were not his friends. So he gave each of the three friends a royal dog.

The only way to actually reduce antisemitism is to deal with it at its core.

If you’re a Jew in America today, there’s a good chance you’re concerned.

From a child's answers, you might know something about what the child knows. From a child's question, you know who the child is.

If you don't get there on your own, you're prone to trip and fall.

Rabbi, here are a few tips, just suggestions mind you, of things you might say in your sermon that might interest me—if come.

By adolescence I was doing my own thing on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—and it wasn't anywhere near a synagogue.

At the outset of Creation, He removed all light. And that is the source of all that ever goes wrong.

From the soon-to-be-released book “Wisdom to Fix the Earth”