“Wisdom from the field” By Tzviki Krasnjansky
“Wisdom from the field” By Tzviki Krasnjansky
Podcast Description
This podcast brings you the journeys, experiences, and lessons of Shluchim, offering both practical advice and powerful insights to fuel your next fundraising breakthrough.
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The show explores themes of resilience, faith, and fundraising strategies within the Chabad-Lubavitch community, with episodes like 'The Courage to Rebuild' showcasing personal stories and practical advice from Shluchim who have faced significant challenges and emerged stronger.
Wisdom from the Field is a podcast for shluchim focused on real breakthroughs — in fundraising, leadership, and growth.
Through honest conversations with shluchim from the field, the podcast explores the experiences, challenges, decisions, and lessons that have brought trues shlichus success. These interviews offer practical insights, fresh perspectives, and real-world wisdom drawn from lived experience — what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what they’ve learned along the way.
Alongside the interviews, the podcast also features Field Notes — short, practical reflections drawn from coaching work and recurring patterns across conversations in the field. Field Notes are designed to offer clear, grounded insights you can sit with or apply right away.
Whether you’re navigating fundraising, leadership pressure, growth, or clarity in your shlichus, Wisdom from the Field is here to support your next breakthrough.
In this episode of Wisdom from the Field, I sit down with Rabbi Mendy Levertov, shliach of Chabad Young Professionals (CYP) in Austin, Texas.
We explore what it really takes to build a YJP community from scratch — from early uncertainty and financial pressure, to steady growth, to purchasing a permanent building.
Mendy shares openly about:
- Starting YJP in Austin with no clear roadmap
- The early event flops (including a “cocktails & kiddush” night where no one showed up)
- Workshopping ideas with the community instead of assuming you know what they want
- And the internal shift required to ask — and to receive — with humility
But at the center of our conversation is one core idea:
Fundraising is a muscle — and that muscle is called bittul.
We dive into the deeper reality of fundraising as “mon” — the daily dependence on Hashem’s bracha.
This conversation touches on:
• The bitul of asking without ego
• The bitul of receiving without deflecting
• The stress of building a mosad — and learning to embrace it
• The power of speaking to mentors, friends, and coaches instead of trying to figure it all out alone
If you’re building, fundraising, stretching, doubting, or growing — this episode will speak directly to you.
Because sometimes the biggest growth doesn’t come from better strategy.
It comes from building the muscle.
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