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From Karlin to Wellesley: Rabbi Moshe Bleich

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Wellesley is a town that didn't have a Shabbos observant Jew since the six days of Creation. Since Adam and Eve, there had never been an observant Jew in Wellesley. But, that being said, if 80 years ago, they said, 'Is there a minyan of Shomer Shabbos in Lakewood, that would have been new also. Someone's got to make this happen." - Rabbi Moshe Bleich

“And then, almost as an afterthought, as we're walking by, the Rebbe gives, like, a half turn in my direction with my father and me. And he says, "Aun a Chossid by undzer oych." Which, literal translation, "And a Chassid by us as well."

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Black, Jewish and Proud: How Rabbi Yossi Kulek Promotes Inclusion 

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“I told my mother, ‘I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed to be Black. I look in the mirror and I ask G-d, “Why me? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to be Black?’” - Rabbi Yossi Kulek

“I instilled in my children that if there's anyone that's ever had an issue with them, it's because they have a problem. You're not the problem.” - Rebbetzin Dalia Kulek

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From Beaches And Basketball To Torah And Mitzvahs: The Story of Perth’s “Meshugenahs”

Featuring: Rabbi Dovid Birk, Michoel Ogince, Gilad Lurie, Yitz Feigenbaum & Aaron Lazer Goodman

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 "I couldn’t understand. I was like, "One second; I saw a wetsuit in your bathroom." He says, "Yeah, I was out surfing this morning, Tel Aviv." I couldn't believe it. So I challenged him. I was like, "One second, how is it possible?" - Rabbi Dovid Birk

"We skateboarded, we surfed, we went to the beach. We body surfed in the beach if we didn't have a surfboard." - Aaron Lazer Goodman

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Rabbi Zalman & Nechama Tiechtel: Growing Jewish Souls In The American Heartland

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"My phone was blowing up from the students. "You gotta come to campus. You gotta come to campus. And no one's telling me why. And I got worried.” - Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel

"When someone enters our Chabad house, and not only the physical space of it, but in our relationship with the student, there is zero judgment and 100% acceptance... It's real, it's genuine. It's something that we learned from the Rebbe; to look at every Jew for who they are in their essence. And the trash in their life? We don't see, and we don't care." - Rebbetzin Nechama Tiechtel

"At first, Zalman's beard turned like plaid, then polka-dotted after me telling him the nasty details of the things that I was going through... And then - I'll never forget it - he said to me, "I'm jealous of you." And I was like, "What?." - Charles Goldberg

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Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don

"We drove cross country, sold my car on the East Coast, and we boarded a flight, a one way ticket, from JFK to Moscow and onto Rostov... We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim Danzinger

"I didn't speak the language, so there was a lot of hand motions and just hugging and trying to break my teeth over Russian, and them breaking their teeth over English." - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger

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Rabbi Chaim & Kaila Danzinger: The Radical Move from Pasadena to Rostov-on-don

"Once I had finished with Moscow, I decided, ‘Okay, I'm done with this.’ " - Rebbetzin Kaila Danzinger

"We have to go where we could make an impact, not necessarily to the place that is most convenient or most beautiful."
“We gave up the surfing boards … and we switched them for ice skates” - Rabbi Chaim Danzinger

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This Lamplighters episode is dedicated in honor of Moshe Braun by the Braun children, who send their father all of their love and blessings on his birthday. We here at Lamplighters say “Amen” to that. Thank you very much to the Braun family for listening, and for supporting us in our mission to bring you inspiring stories of Chabad emissaries all over the world.

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The Music And Spirituality Of Songwriter Peter Himmelman

PH: He {Rabbi Simon Jacobson} said, "A tzadik, he could do anything." You know, I said, "Well, can he fly?" 

RSJ: So I said, "I never saw him fly, to be honest.” 

PH: Which I liked. Maybe somebody could fly, he just hadn't seen it!

RSJ: “But you have to remember that, for him, walking on earth was just as miraculous as flying."

PH: And Simon looks at me, and he goes, "Understand one thing: to a tzadik, whether they're flying 30, 40, 50 feet above the ground or walking on the surface of it, it's all the same miracle."

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Ep. 34 - A searching teenager becomes a rabbi in his hometown: Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner

"AOL Messenger had something amazing. When you put in the search certain words, it was scanning all the profiles of all the members of AOL. And when you put in the word “Chabad,” or you put in the word “rabbi,” you get a lot of rabbis... And that's the way how I found Rabbi Teichtal in Berlin." - Rabbi Yitzchak Mendel Wagner

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Rabbi Mendy & Mazal Sternbach: Lagos, Nigeria - A small Jewish community in an African city of 20 million

"We had a meeting, and then we decided, "Okay, let's do that. Let's go for a year to Nigeria." My parents were not so happy about that … then. I mean, let's say you just Google "Nigeria." I'm guessing that the first few things that you will find are not something that parents want their daughter to go there. It doesn't sound so amazing. But then they had a talk with the shluchim, and they realized that we don't have terrorists walking around, and we’re pretty safe. And they were more relaxed." -- Rebbetzin Mazal Sternbach

"They see me with a yarmulke. They walk over to me and they say, "You're a Jew, you're from the Bible, you're Moses." They tell us "You're the chosen people." " -- Rabbi Mendy Sternbach

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Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz: Connecting Two Generations Of Rabbis In A Boston NICU

"Somebody please get me a Chabad rabbi. The surgery is going to take place in 2 hours. I just need someone to come and pray.” - Jacer Collins

"I ran over, dropped everything, and went to Children's Hospital, the 7th floor... She pulled me towards the crib, tiny little crib. You know, what do you say?... The only thing that came out of my mouth was the following; "G-d can do anything. Let's pray for a miracle." - Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz

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