“Wisdom from the field” By Tzviki Krasnjansky
“Wisdom from the field” By Tzviki Krasnjansky
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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, I sit down with Rabbi Menachem Caytak, shliach to Troy, Michigan, for a powerful conversation about building a community before it was obvious to anyone else.
Still in his first seven years on shlichus, Rabbi Caytak shares how he began building Jewish life in Troy one door and one relationship at a time — with persistence, grit, and a willingness to keep showing up.
Again and again, what stands out is his courage to go first: to see and speak a vision before it was fully visible, to talk about a Jewish center before there was a center, to look for a building before the money was there, and to keep creating keilim before he knew exactly how the brachos would come.
Along the way, he shares story after story of open Hashgacha Protis and remarkable miracles: unexpected donors, impossible opportunities, and doors opening in ways he never could have planned.
He also speaks about the power of writing a weekly duch to the Rebbe, as well as beginning the day with learning Rambam.
This episode is an inspiring reminder that hatzlocho is built through both emunah and action — the courage to go first, the discipline to keep showing up, and the full bitachon that when we create the keilim, Hashem fills them with bracha.
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