A Chabad Rav in Brooklyn Heights
Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin is a Chabad rabbi who has led Congregation B'nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights, teaching Chassidus in the Lubavitch tradition to a steady community. His more than three hundred recorded classes grow out of that pulpit: the regular, unglamorous work of a neighborhood rav who learns with the same people day after day.
That grounding shapes the teaching. It is not a lecture tour but a rebbi's ongoing shiurim — Tanya, halacha, the parsha, the calendar — offered in the patient, cumulative way that a settled community makes possible over years.
Letters of Light
Rabbi Raskin is the author of "Letters of Light," a study of the Hebrew alphabet in which each letter — its form, its name, its numerical value — becomes a doorway into Chassidic thought. It is a beautiful premise: that the very building blocks of the Torah carry meaning, and that learning the aleph-beis deeply is a form of learning Torah itself.
His classes carry that same sensibility. He is drawn to the inner dimension of things — why a letter looks the way it does, what a shape or a spelling is quietly teaching — and he opens those details up without losing the reader in them.
Tanya, Halacha, and the Daily Round
Alongside the letters, his teaching covers the staples of a Chabad beis midrash: Tanya, the foundational text of Chabad Chassidus, learned steadily, and practical halacha for daily Jewish life. The combination is deliberate — the inner work of Tanya and the concrete obligations of halacha are meant to travel together.
For a listener, that makes his library a rounded one. It offers the warmth and depth of Chassidus on one side and the clear practical guidance of halacha on the other, both in the voice of a working community rabbi rather than a distant scholar.
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Key takeaways
- Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin is a Chabad rabbi who has led Congregation B'nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights.
- He authored "Letters of Light," reading each Hebrew letter as a doorway into Chassidic thought.
- His teaching covers Tanya, the foundational text of Chabad Chassidus, learned steadily.
- He also teaches practical halacha — the inner work and the concrete obligations, together.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.