Sound No. 19 - Sholem Aleichem: WWIII
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com
Oct 22, 2023•1 hr 8 min
mentalblog podcast
Last refreshed: ⓘ
Follow this podcast in the Metacast mobile app to refresh it and see new episodes.
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more
Episodes
Sound No. 18 - The Book of American Lamentations
On this day and this podcast we talk about the fate of American Jewry, Chabad, and Diabetes. אונטער דײַנע ווײַסע שטערן שטרעק צו מיר דײַן װײַסע האַנט. מײַנע װערטער זײַנען טרערן װילן רוען אין דײַן האַנט. - אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער Update: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 42 min
Sound No. 17 - Sholem Aleichem: Zalman vs. Mendel Schneerson - Lubavitch, the Vehicle of Modernity
Sholem Aleichem and I find ourselves, this early Friday afternoon, in New England towns in a neighboring states. It’s a beautiful, sunny, brisk, spring day. I can hear the birds chirping over the podcast. Our towns are the graveyards of the American Jewish life. With plenty of Chabad “emissaries” who came to officiate at the funerals and make a few bucks off the dead. The vultures circling on the horizon, the scavengers looking for leftovers of the once proud, mighty communities. We discuss topi...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Sound No. 16 - Sholem Aleichem: Alienation
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.” - Nicolas Gomez Davila. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Подкаст № 15 - Прерванный Cон РАШАБA
Карл Маркс: “Гегель где-то отмечает, что все великие всемирно-исторические события и личности появляются, так сказать, дважды. Он забыл прибавить: первый раз в виде трагедии, второй раз в виде фарса.” Чтобы получать новые сообщения, подумайте о том, чтобы стать бесплатным или платным подписчиком. Этот пост является общедоступным, поэтому не стесняйтесь делиться им. Книги Ильи Лурии: איליה לוריא, עדה ומדינה: חסידות חב"ד באימפריה הרוסית (תקפ"ח-תרמ"ג). ירושלים: הוצאת ספרים ע"ש י"ל מגנס, תשס"ו. אילי...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Sound No. 14 - Sholem Aleichem: Why there is no new Chabad Rebbe?
This is a companion podcast to these posts: * Post No. 6 - Boruch Sholem and Gesia Schneerson - Kaddish and Adagio . * Шнеерсоны в России - Schneersons in Russia. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com...
Nov 27, 2022•53 min
Sound No. 13 - How Chabad, Satmar, etc. Hack the System
This is a quick take as a way of introduction for a broader podcast with Sholem Aleichem. We hope to record this longer podcast tomorrow. But this will set up some themes for the conversation. Jewish Encyclopedia - Apostle (regarding Sound No. 12 – מיהו יהודי and the Jerusalem Council ). Investigative reporting is absent from the Hareidy press. But still strong in the NYT. Specifically, the author of the articles about Satmar NYT: Brian M. Rosenthal. Brian won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his inv...
Oct 30, 2022•23 min
Sound No. 12 – מיהו יהודי and the Jerusalem Council
The most influential and consequential meeting in human history occurred in Jerusalem c. 48 CE, around 15-20 years after the resurrection of the Mashiyach. It is sometimes called Apostolic Council because of the participants. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com
Oct 23, 2022•20 min
Sound No. 11 - The Watershed Moment that Changed Chabad Forever
On the subject of Sound No. 10 - Bad Blood of the Chabad Rebbe. The fundraising fraction did not take over Chabad in 1994, in fact, they took over and permanently held on to power since at least 1989 (33 years!), the day they convinced the aging and isolated Rebbe that the struggle of his life מיהו יהודי “who is a Jew” (and שלימות הארץ) should be silenced. That faithful day Menachem Mendel Schneerson relinquished his passion and his crown and told shluchim to shut up ( הפסקת המאבק ), not to upse...
Sep 11, 2022•2 hr 17 min
Sound No. 10 - Bad Blood of the Chabad Rebbe
Nechama Dinah, Bere and Chana Gourary, perhaps Rayatz himself, Rav Rivkin, Rashag, Zalman Schneerson, all these names have one thing in common, they are family members or in the case of Rabbi Moshe Dov Ber Rivkin, a virtual family member who belonged to the old Royal court and all of them were downgraded by the new king. Except Raytaz himself of course as explained in the podcast. In her letter Musia Schnnerson mentioned Ella Rivkin, daughter of the Rav and Nacha Rivkin, in the paragraph about “...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Sound No. 9 - Why we are not Welcomed in Chabad Community
Fabian Perez. mentalblog is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thank you for reading and listening to mentalblog. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Sound No. 8 - Sholem Aleichem: Ukrainians and Jews
On the subject of Tablet: Wendy Lower’s ‘The Ravine’ looks at a photograph that many refuse to face. UPDATE: There have been plenty of pogroms that were not Ukrainian, one just needs to look at Anton Denikin. There were Polish pogroms, Red Army pogroms, White Army pogroms. They all seemed united on one subject. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Sound No. 7 - Sholem Aleichem: The Counterclaims of Barry S. Gourary
“Soup after the meal” This was part of a longer podcast, cut & paste here... On the subject of Sound No. 1 - Sholem Aleichem: The Will to Power of Barry Gourary and Sound No. 6 - Sholem Aleichem: The Eclipse of the Schneerson Family. As Sholem Aleichem said in the podcast: “soup after the meal”. Footnotes: * The case was in 1985, before the crash of 1987. * NYT Article: December 18, 1985, Section B, Page 1. * I understand the attachment to books, but how can you say it belongs to hassidim wh...
Jul 27, 2022•37 min
Sound No. 6 - Sholem Aleichem: The Eclipse of the Schneerson Family
This is a new mentalblog, please forward to your friends who might be interested in our conversations. Speaking of PR, we are pressing to understand and unearth the two subjects the PR driven Ramash administration tried and still trying to obfuscate the most, the culture of Chabad in Russia and the Holocaust. Both subjects do not fit neatly in the propaganda. The reason we are writing about Mark Borisovich Schneerson , the memories of Margolia Schneerson or the NKVD Martyrs , is because we want ...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 42 min
Sound No. 5 - Sholem Aleichem: HR Department of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Note No. 1: I (Tzemach) haven't been inside this world for a long time. When I listen back to the podcast, I discover that I mixed or misspoke some names, perhaps even facts. Some characters I no longer remember. It should not distract from the conversation. In regard to our friends S. Taub and the Jacobson brothers (called them Simpson, a slip), they enter the obvious vacuum of the spiritual leadership. Confirmation bias business is the best there is, turbocharged with the emotional and financi...
Jun 27, 2022•2 hr 2 min
Sound No. 3 - Sholem Aleichem: On Cultural Memory
Update 1: The name of the author of the book about Rayatz in Warsaw is not Briggs, it is Bryan Mark Rigg. Chatcha Feign was not killed in Warsaw, he and Yehuda Eber were burnt alive in the same Riga shul as Itche der Masmid and many other Jews. On yud kislev, 5742. Needs confirmation. The Rebbe’s grandmother Rochel Yanovski was murdered by the nazis in Nikolayev. She was at that point blind and alone (everyone else was either arrested or dead). The last one arrested was her son-in-law Shmuel (ar...
Jun 13, 2022•56 min
Sound No. 2 - Sholem Aleichem: Ramash, Take no Prisoners Alexander Suvorov and Education of Barry Gourary
Thanks for reading mentalblog! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mentalblog.substack.com
May 29, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Sound No. 1 - Sholem Aleichem: The Will to Power of Barry Gourary
Ramash governed as if Rayatz never died. He called Rayatz the Nosi of our generation and deferred all the brochos to him ( azkir al hazion ), literally bringing all the correspondence to the grave. One might have thought that Ramash was Rayatz' s secretary, shleping all the brown paper bags to the grave, where he was channeling his father-in-law. If Raytz never died (as the Ramash himself will do in the future), then the “will to power” is null and void. Barry's claim on the ownership of the boo...
May 22, 2022
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android