Rabbi Berry Farkash is a Shliach in Issaquah, Washington and director of Chabad of the Central Cascades.

Several years ago, a local crisis led Berry into the world of psychotherapy where he became a certified clinical psychotherapist and practices Hypnotherapy and other Transpersonal modalities. Today all of his clients are fellow Lubavitchers, many of them shluchim.

In this conversation, we discuss his own journey toward finding the Rebbe’s softer voice and the need for forgiveness and compassion.

We also discuss the importance of companionship - especially highlighted by the Rebbe’s “bakosho nafshis” to find a mashpia, or in other words, to talk about real and weighty issues with someone else.