Farbrengens
התעוררות לבוא למנחה מעריב(1)
Rabbi Schapiro urges shul members to make the effort to attend the Mincha-Maariv minyan, noting recent struggles to gather a minyan and acknowledging ongoing hesitation about returning to shul in person.
התעוררות לבוא למנחה מעריב
With the clocks changing, Rabbi Schapiro announces that Mincha-Maariv will shift an hour earlier and encourages everyone who can to keep attending despite the new, less convenient time.
התעוררות לבוא למנחה מעריב(1)
Rabbi Schapiro urges shul members to make the effort to attend the Mincha-Maariv minyan, noting recent struggles to gather a minyan and acknowledging ongoing hesitation about returning to shul in person.
התעוררות לבוא למנחה מעריב
With the clocks changing, Rabbi Schapiro announces that Mincha-Maariv will shift an hour earlier and encourages everyone who can to keep attending despite the new, less convenient time.
Planning the Upcoming Farbrengen
A short logistics talk planning the details of an upcoming farbrengen.
Lechatchila Ariber: Going Over the Obstacle, Not Around It
Stories illustrating the chassidic concept of overcoming obstacles directly -- rain not stopping a sukkah or tashlich, the Rebbe's heart attack, and the energy of Mivtzoim.
The Ship Stuck at Sea Because of a Forbidden Word
The Baal Shem Tov's explanation of a magical text that stopped a ship at sea, its connection to the Noda B'Yehuda, and Rav Huna's advice on learning from a greater scholar.
Why It Became Necessary to Teach Chassidus Openly
A historical and chassidic class on the opposition the Maggid and Alter Rebbe faced for teaching Chassidus publicly, why the restrictions on revealing Kabbalah loosened in later generations, and the push to spread it before Mashiach.
Why It Became Necessary to Teach Chassidus Openly
A historical and chassidic class on the opposition faced for teaching Chassidus publicly, why revealing Kabbalah became necessary in later generations, and the Alter Rebbe's mandate to study all parts of Torah before Mashiach.
Farbrengen: Beis Nissan — 100 Years Since the Rebbe Rashab (5780)
A Beis Nissan farbrengen marking 100 years since the passing of the Rebbe Rashab: how the Rebbe marked such milestones, Tomchei Temimim and its mission, stories of the Rebbe Rashab's final illness and leadership, his ma'amarim and kuntreisim (Kuntres HaAvodah, Kuntres HaTefillah), and the Rebbe's guidance to bochurim to learn them.
Farbrengen: Gimmel Tammuz & Siyum HaRambam (5781)
A Gimmel Tammuz farbrengen combined with a Siyum HaRambam: the Rambam's closing chapters on Mashiach and a world filled with knowledge of G-d, knowing versus believing, the Rebbe's care for every individual, and personal stories — Hurricane Andrew, underground shlichus in Soviet Russia, and the Rebbe's influence that sustained Yiddishkeit there.
Farbrengen: Yud Beis Tammuz, with Rabbi Yossi Lew (5780)
A virtual Yud Beis–Yud Gimmel Tammuz farbrengen with Rabbi Yossi Lew: the Frierdiker Rebbe's mesirus nefesh in Russia and America, stories of underground shlichus in the Soviet Union, a Kraków farbrengen, memories of the Rebbe's farbrengens and niggunim, and connecting to the Rebbe today.
Farbrengen: Shabbos Nachamu
Marking Shabbos Nachamu, Tu B'Av, and a personal birthday together, this farbrengen opens with the Rebbe's teaching on why Tu B'Av surpasses even the 15th of Nissan and Tishrei, tying the full moon's renewal to the ultimate nechama of Mashiach, then moves into the controversy over the 1969 moon landing and Rav Goren's ruling. It turns personal with recollections of what it felt like for a bochur to go into yechidus in 770 on his birthday, before returning to the Rebbe's teaching that golus and geulah are not opposites but a single neshamah's capacity to hold both, alongside halachic asides on Tisha B'Av and Tzom Gedaliah. The gathering closes looking ahead to Elul and the avodah of the Yamim Noraim.
Farbrengen: Shabbos Bereishis
Opening with the Frierdiker Rebbe's teaching that vaya'akov halach l'darko sets the tone for the whole year, this farbrengen works through the Rebbe's halachic and philosophical points on Simchas Torah — why starting the Torah again demands a leap to an entirely new level rather than mere continuation — before turning to personal memories of the Rebbe's own Simchas Torah, including the Frierdiker Rebbe's remark that Tishrei never truly ends “coming down from the mountain,” and the tefach-hoicher-fun-velt quality of those hakafos. It then walks through several classic sichos on Parshas Bereishis: why the Torah opens with Creation rather than the first mitzvah, the secret embedded in the first light, and the Rebbe's response to the nations' claim that Eretz Yisrael was stolen. The gathering closes by turning all of this into a practical charge for the new year.