ChabadTalk Podcast

Real Jews Never Repent

Thirteen essays and stories that explore the what, why and how of of the most powerful force known to man--the power of self-transformation

The Parable of the King in the Field

What does it actually mean?

What Is a Yetzer Hara and How Do I Get Rid of It?

The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.

How Does Kosher Work?

There’s an essential difference between kosher foods and non-kosher. And your body knows that difference.

Six Misconceptions of the Modern Mind

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.

Holiness Is a Crack in the Wall

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.

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 u

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 ab

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 b

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