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The establishment doesn’t know what to do with these millenials - with their snaps and avocado toasts. With their causes and attitudes. With their Squads and world views. They’re disrupting the status quo.
There are deeper forces afoot - those that we’ve seen before.
Yes the current generation is thirsty - and the the thirst is real -but none of this is new. In the 1960s, the baby-boomers also disrupted the status quo.
The world was in shock. What could be done with these kids?
But the Rebbe saw something different, as if the hippies expressed the sentiment that "the apathetic ice of America is finally beginning to thaw. Young people now realize they need not conform to society’s norms!”
In a letter in the early ‘60s he wrote “In our generation, particularly in the last few years, we are witnessing a spiritual awakening … —“a return to roots.” Regardless of how it is being currently understood, the quest to “return to roots” is, in essence, the soul’s quest for teshuvah, for reunion with its source in G‑d.
We are seeing this awakening primarily among the youth, who experience everything with a greater depth and a greater intensity.”
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First Friday is NEXT Shabbat, August 2nd! Join the curated conversation and epic eats with great company + l’chaim! Space is limited.
This month we’ll be schmoozing about clean meat - can it give us kosher cheeseburgers and glatt bacon?
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The creator of the Retweet thinks it’s ruining the Internet. Our solution? Study this chapter of Tanya before tweeting.
The Sufi Freedom Fighter and his lesson taught by the Rebbe and Leonard Bernstein’s Bar Mitzvah all in this story of a Chasidic Song.
In praise of the pencil. Enough said!
Beyond Meat is developing plant-based Bacon + now there’s lab grown ice cream. But is it good for the Jews? Find out next Friday!
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Dunai - a Chasidic song of pastoral yearning about the Danube.
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