Rabbi Yosef Bronstein discusses the philosophy of Chabad and the Rebbe.
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[Music] hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore a different topic balancing modern sensibilities with traditional sensitivities to give you new approaches to Timeless Jewish Ideas I'm your host D bashevkin and this month we're like a running joke uh but he really is one of my dearest friends uh we study Torah together we learned cbos I think briefly together maybe I'm totally wrong on that oh I I I'm wrong on that I don't think we learned together but I I think I learned in his uh in his spot like in his seat in the base metri he had this beautiful Corner seat in the base manri but we used to always talk together in Torah learning and that of course is my dearest friend Rabbi Dr yosea bronstein all of our listeners have interacted with kabad uh kabad is associated particularly in the Orthodox Community uh as the place you go uh when you need uh food on vacation uh it is the uh movement that you see putting Fillin on random strangers on the street and when they ask you and assuming that people within the Orthodox Community have put on Fillin uh that you you know you get to uh say oh no I already have it on and they you know sometimes don't even ask people who look Orthodox assuming that
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