Explore every episode of the podcast Practically a Farbrengen
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| #82 Picking up sticks... cause its all about the relationship | 04 Sep 2024 | 00:40:13 | |
Does one need to be truly challenged to make all the necessary changes? No. Chapter 20 begins the discussion on how to accomplish this. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #81 Activating the Volcano within | 28 May 2024 | 00:44:06 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 19 exploring the nature of mesisras nefesh, and how it is leveraged within the context of our spiritual journey facing the ebb and flow of this powerful tool being available and then fading from our consciousness, uncovering the path to reveal the volcano of spirit that lays dormant within Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #73 Cause it’s You | 08 May 2023 | 00:41:57 | |
Menachem and Mayer launch into Chapter 18 focusing in on beginning to unpack in earnest the quality and concept of Ahavah Misuteres - the innate love - within. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #72 The Freedom of a Broken Heart | 01 May 2023 | 00:43:19 | |
Menachem and Mayer wrap up chapter 17 with a discussion of the term Lev Nishbar - Breaking our hearts free from the burden of klippah. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #71 The key is being honest with yourself... | 27 Mar 2023 | 00:43:19 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue exploring Chapter 17 of Tanya, exploring the the role of self honesty and the danger of an incapacity of that. How honesty with self is the key to open the door to freedom when we become insnared in a powerlessness to our own impulses. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #70 What you know, you know | 16 Mar 2023 | 00:33:14 | |
Menachem and Mayer are back and begin Chapter 17 of Tanya, exploring the messages of Tanya about how practical the program of Judaism and Chassidus is. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #69 The struggle makes you great | 03 Jan 2023 | 00:32:47 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 16 and Reb Mayer to an opportunity to clarify his point for episode #68, specifically the real life perspective that while we need to try harder that doesn't invalidate the meaningfulness and purposefulness of struggle Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #68 Try again! | 26 Dec 2022 | 00:38:59 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 16 and our discussion of the real life path of the Beinoni, exploring the resilience needed in our spiritual journey to keep trying again when we encounter setbacks. We want give a heads up on this episode because its messaging is by far the most forward in the series. Also, look out for the followup episode to this, where Reb Mayer had a chance to clarify some points. Chazak V'Amatz! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #67 Switching to Offense | 12 Dec 2022 | 00:29:50 | |
Menachem and Mayer launch right into chapter 16 exploring what the Alter Rebbe means by the Fundamental Rule of the Path of The Beinoni and how that is a continuation of the last chapter. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #66 Its all about the 1% | 21 Nov 2022 | 00:14:52 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue their discussion of 15 exploring the paradigm of Ovad and Lo Ovad. Here they discuss a practical suggestion that the Bal HaTanya makes to take things to the next level... its all about 1% Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #65 I hear... but what's next? | 13 Nov 2022 | 00:21:46 | |
Menachem and Mayer jump into chapter 15 exploring the paradigm of Ovad and Lo Ovad. How the life of the beinoni is a life of never resting on laurels and being ready to leap into what's next... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #64 Go for Tzadik | 19 Sep 2022 | 00:26:59 | |
Menachem and Mayer wrap up of chapter 14 exploring the invitation of the Bal HaTanya to engage the place of Tzadik even after we have abandoned the illusive expectation of being a Tzadik. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| Hei Teves Special: Every Yids a Big Tzadik | 16 Dec 2023 | 00:38:07 | |
Menachem and Mayer jump back in the saddle with a Hei Teves Special! Mayer shares some perspective on the shift that occurred on the famous Fifth of Teves 1987 and how it really reflected a natural outgrowth of the Chassidic movement in general and stands as an empowerment to all people to be a Rebbe in their own right by sharing their own light. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #63 Own your life | 15 Sep 2022 | 00:21:34 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue the themes of chapter 14 exploring the promise we make when we are born to be a Tzadik and not be a Rasha - how that is in fact an empowerment to take ownership of our lives Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| Special Episode - Consciously #142 - When your Rebbe is in The Field Ft. Rabbi Mayer Preger | 06 Sep 2022 | 00:56:20 | |
We know its been a while and we are jumping back in this week please Gd, but we recorded this today for Consciously and its a fresh and hot take on HaMelech Basadeh that we wanted to share with you... and we will leave it up on the feed for a few weeks :) Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #62 You are Gishmack | 01 Aug 2022 | 00:31:16 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue the themes of chapter 14 exploring how we can lift up ourselves, our lives and everyone around us by embracing the part of life we are excellent at and admiring the same we see in all others. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #61 Mamish in love... so sweat the small stuff | 20 Jul 2022 | 00:36:21 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue the themes of chapter 14 exploring the statement of the sages that one only sins when overcome by a spirit of foolishness. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #60 What's in a name | 08 Jul 2022 | 00:38:35 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue the themes of chapter 14! Exploring the term Ohavei Shemecha and how that informs the idea that the path of the Beinoni is the path of every person, touching on addiction recovery and the separation between productive and unproductive forms of the admission of powerlessness. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #59 The Beinoni Train is always at the station... | 30 Jun 2022 | 00:24:23 | |
Menachem and Mayer launch in to chapter 14! Here we go!!! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #58 Extreeeemly Close | 22 Jun 2022 | 00:32:20 | |
Menachem and Mayer wrap up chapter 13 exploring the theme of Truth and how that manifests in the life of the Beinoni Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #57 Riding the tailwind | 16 Jun 2022 | 00:27:50 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 13 reexploring the back and forth between Abayeh and Rabbah for new remarkable lesson to learn and principle for life Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #56 Let sleeping BeHemas lie... | 23 May 2022 | 00:30:29 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 13 discussing the concept of seeing the redaction of the Nefesh Habehamis as it slipping into a state of slumber and some interesting perspectives for life that emerge from that. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #55 Be normal, be you, be "like" a Rasha... | 09 May 2022 | 00:30:20 | |
Menachem and Mayer begin chapter 13 circling back to the opening question of Tanya; How could Chazal tell us to see ourselves as if we were a rasha (a wicked person)? That seems very destructive and counterproductive to a happy, joyous and spiritual life? Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #80 You can't get lost in Chassidus: Chapter 19 and the essence of Chai Elul | 04 Sep 2023 | 00:43:26 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 19 exploring further the concept of the Ahava Misuteres - what's normally translated as the hidden love for Gd or dormant love for Gd within each of us. Except a new take on the whole thing that unpacks the holiness underlying our self destructive tendencies... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #54 A real relationship with Gd starts with loving others | 02 May 2022 | 00:20:06 | |
Menachem and Mayer conclude chapter 12 exploring why the Tanya anchors its discussion of the journey of the Beinoni with a discussion of the importance of loving others and our interpersonal relationships. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #53 When what matters changes | 11 Apr 2022 | 00:19:05 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue their discussion of chapter 12 exploring the shift that occurs tin the Beinoni which begins the process of drawing a real and feasible self mastery into his/her life Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #52 Just little bit of light.... | 28 Mar 2022 | 00:19:19 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue their discussion of chapter 12 exploring the powerful impact of small efforts to fill our lives with light in our journey toward spiritual fulfillment and wholeness Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #51 The search for the song you never heard... but always knew | 14 Mar 2022 | 00:19:35 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue their discussion of chapter 12 discussing what makes the experience of the Beinoni different even within the process of grappling with himself or herself. Because everything changes when you find the song you were always looking for... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #50 When the Operating System works like it should... | 10 Mar 2022 | 00:29:41 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue their discussion of chapter 12 exploring the concept of Moach Shalit al HaLev - The mind dominates the heart - as a description of what the system within us looks like when we are operating properly. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #49 Prayer, it's an inside job | 02 Mar 2022 | 00:29:41 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue their discussion of chapter 12 exploring the role and nature of prayer as a vital tool for one seeking the path of Beinoni Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #48 An action not a title | 08 Feb 2022 | 00:23:15 | |
Menachem and Mayerconitnue their discussion of chapter 12 peeling away yet another layer the onion of what a Beinoni is and the whole nature of the "program" of Tanya Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #47 Setting aside how you feel about it... | 17 Jan 2022 | 00:27:05 | |
Menachem and Mayer begin their discussion of chapter 12 with a new layer of incite into understanding the Beinoni and really the whole framework of Tanya Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #46 The key is to get around other people | 10 Jan 2022 | 00:25:54 | |
Menachem and Mayer complete their discussion of chapter 11 by focusing on the importance of having others in your life and spiritual value of a farbrengen with people especially when we are struggling... A beautiful connection with Yud Shvat which is this week on Wednesday Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #45 Think good... but mainly Be Good | 30 Dec 2021 | 00:31:52 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue exploring chapter 11 with a discussion of the idea behind the destructive nature of bad thoughts and in contrast the value of good thoughts but most of all right action... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #79 Its how you interpret the vibes | 07 Aug 2023 | 00:33:18 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 19 exploring further the relationship between chochmah and bites, between wisdom and humility, and how that correlates to the danger of being pre-occupied with our self. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #44 Its like living a dream | 21 Dec 2021 | 00:30:02 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue exploring chapter 11 continuing their discussion about healthy regret, exploring the nature of Yosef's dreams and what they teach us about facing life in the "real" world. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #43 Taking the Reins | 13 Dec 2021 | 00:25:08 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue exploring chapter 11 beginning a discussion that will continue next epsidoe about healthy regret, the most potent symbol of our goodness. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #42 Hello, my name is.... and I'm a V'Tov Lo | 06 Dec 2021 | 00:27:26 | |
Menachem and Mayer begin exploring the themes of chapter 11 jumping into the most fundamental question that comes up around Tanya - how are we supposed to process the idea that we are all a Rasha V'Tov Lo Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #41 When what's right is Natural and Normal... | 29 Nov 2021 | 00:33:33 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue the themes of chapter 10 exploring how the level of Tzadik, especially the Tzadik Gamur is really Karov Meod, so close for each of us. How righteousness is so much connected to what we do with the moments we have and that when we are tapped in to ourselves spirituality is natural and normal. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #40 Recovering or Recovered | 18 Nov 2021 | 00:26:04 | |
Menachem and Mayer begin exploring the themes of chapter 10 specifically exploring the level of Tzadik and where it can be present very practically in our lives and then how that relates to the theme of recovering from an addiction or similar problem... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #39 That kind of thing only happens to the prince... | 16 Nov 2021 | 00:24:29 | |
Menachem and Mayer wrap up Chapter 9 exploring the Tanya utilizing the metaphor of a prostitute seducing a prince from the Zohar and what we can learn from the fact that the Alter Rebbe finished a chapter with it.... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #38 Welcome to Yourself | 04 Nov 2021 | 00:23:55 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue Chapter 9 how the Divine soul doesn't seek to change the material soul but instead invites to being itself... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #37 Attraction rather than domination | 28 Oct 2021 | 00:28:52 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue Chapter 9 exploring how the Betesh elopes makes an elevated and spiritual life attractive to the Nefesh Habehamis, making growth pleasant and positive Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #36 The struggle is real | 21 Oct 2021 | 00:30:59 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue Chapter 9 exploring how to live spiritually through the the tumultuous conflict between our different parts... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #35 A mind driven life means being emotional present | 14 Oct 2021 | 00:26:24 | |
Menachem and Mayer begin Chapter 9 and discuss the mind heart interchange and where the nefesh lives Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #78 Halvai a Chosid | 25 Jul 2023 | 00:31:18 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue chapter 19 exploring how the secret power of Chochmah is its unique ability to carry us to a place beyond our own capacity. To become greater then our selves... and some exploration of Menachems' "Chosid Imposter Syndrome". Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #34 In the pursuit of knowledge | 07 Oct 2021 | 00:28:12 | |
Menachem and Mayer wrap up chapter 8 of Tanya exploring the outlook on learning sciences and other secular wisdom Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #33 We matter, and what we do matters | 23 Sep 2021 | 00:31:05 | |
Menachem and Mayer begin chapter 8 of Tanya exploring the consequential nature of all we do and how even tough maybe harsh conversations can leave us feeling amazing if thats the point... Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #32 DON'T TALK ABOUT IT!!... But only once you can... | 02 Sep 2021 | 00:38:51 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue discussing the themes of chapter 7 of Tanya and look to tackle a complex topic that is so important to address but also is not something Chabad Chassidus normally spends time on, Zera L'Vatala - wasted seed Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||
| #31 The aroma of the Bal Teshuva | 25 Aug 2021 | 00:32:46 | |
Menachem and Mayer continue discussing the themes of chapter 7 of Tanya exploring the concept of the Bal Teshuva touching a spiritual space more powerful than the greatest Tzadik. Illuminating the nature of the relationship between the Chosid and his or her Rebbe. Please visit our website Thelightrevealed.org for more great content and to reach out or check us out on social media and reach out by email! | |||