Benny Friedman was born in 1985, in Minneapolis, MN, into a family of Chabad Shluchim. His father, Rabbi Manis Friedman, is also a Chabad shaliach. Benny is the eleventh of fourteen children. His uncle (his father's brother) is a well known Jewish singing superstar Avraham Fried; Benny is also the first-cousin of Shmuel and Bentzi Marcus, of the 8th Day band.

At the age of twelve Benny was sent to learn at the Lubavitcher yeshiva in Postville, Iowa, where he boarded in the home of Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin. At age 15 he traveled to Israel to study in the Lubavitcher yeshi