MyLife: Chassidus Applied – Episode 16 Airs Tonight at 8PM
Can a marriage survive a cheating spouse? While a person will never forget, can we forgive? What did Chassidus and the Rebbe say, except—of course—that it was forbidden?
Women have historically been responsible for housework and childrearing. Today, a woman’s role extends far beyond the home to make ends meet. Is it fair to expect women to double their capacity — working while taking on the brunt of childbearing and housework?
Other topics to be addressed in Sunday’s broadcast include: Is prayer meant to be personal or is it about parroting pre-scripted words? Is Avodas ha’Ttefilah (diligent prayer) relevant today—or only a thing for Chassidim of previous generations? How can you lift Tanya off the page and make it relevant in your life today? What can we say about teachers who don’t lead by example?
Tune in this Sunday night for the next episode of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, which will address these sensitive issues. This hour-long dose of insight is meant to inform, inspire and empower us by applying the teachings of Chassidus to help us face practical and emotional challenges and difficulties in our personal lives and relationships.
The topics in this Sunday’s hour-long broadcast will include:
Follow-Up: Unplanned children and immodest teachers
Gender Roles
Making Tanya Practical
Is Avodas HaTefilah relevant today?
Personal Prayer – When, where and how? Or is it a lost art?
Infidelity and Forgiveness
MyLife: Chassidus Applied addresses questions that many people are afraid to ask and others are afraid to answer. When asked about the sensitive topics he has been addressing, Rabbi Simon Jacobson commented, “I understand that the stakes are high, but the silence and lack of clarity on matters plaguing the community can no longer go unaddressed. The stakes of not providing answers are even higher.”
The on-going series has provoked a significant reaction from the community, with thousands of people viewing each live broadcast and hundreds of questions pouring in. At the root of every question and personal challenge tackled by the series is the overarching question: Does Judaism have the answers to my personal dilemmas?
In inimitable “Jacobson-fashion”, the broadcast answers people’s questions in simple, clear language while being heavily sourced. Each episode is jam-packed with eye-opening advice from the Rebbeim, gleaned from uncovering surprising gems in their letters, sichos and maamorim that address our personal issues with disarming relevance. Simultaneously, Rabbi Jacobson is able to crystallize a concept quickly, succinctly, and poignantly for any level of listener.
All episodes are immediately available for viewing in the MLC’s archive and can be downloaded as MP3’s for listening on the go.
Questions may be submitted anonymously at www.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive.
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Shulchan Aruch yes, but suits?! They should dress in a dignified manner. Throughout my schooling, my teachers did not wear suits. They wore skirts and tops.
I look forward to your weekly webcast and I try to take in and apply the lessons in my life because everything one sees and hears has a lesson in avodas hashem as the baal shem tov taught! Thank you
I thoroughly enjoy learning from Rabbi Jacobson’s talks and disagree with the comment #4 that it should not be publicized. He was speaking in general and there are different levels of infidelity, perhaps some just emotionally based. But I find it hard to believe that a Rav would say a couple must divorce if the women is unfaithful. That does not sound believable or correct. Could Rabbi Jacobson please hopefully clarify that those commentators are wrong? Thank you!
Teachers should have a dress code.
They should be obligated to wear Shaitels
And SUITS.
A policeman has a uniform, a nurse has a uniform
A teacher in a Chabad School where thew girls
See her for many hours Must conform to the
Shulchan oruch!
I work very hard that my daughters
Should dress properly.
They tell me that they dress Better then
Their teachers.
In Saver the women teachers vs.not
It was not made clear on the audio that his whole premise (of rebuilding the relationship) only refers to a case where the husband did wrong. This is not a criticism of Rabbi Jacobson but it is crucial to make this clear. I hope he does so.
If the wife remarries, she is not allowed to her prior husband. That much is clear- So if she is unfaithful wouldn’t it be the same? I am not a Rabbi and I may be wrong. But this is an important issue, so if that’s the case, it should be stated clearly on the next program!
Rabbi Jacobson was replying to a letter about a husband who followed his yetzer hara, not the wife.
Rabbi Jacobson, yasher koach for a wonderful program. You are filling a real void in the community by dealing with all these varied issues head on in an honest, open and al pi chassisus way.
I am learning so much and am so grateful. May you go meichoyil el choyil.
I really appreciate these insightful, articulate, and enlightening classes (as I’ve commented on previous classes).
A small critique of the conclusion of this class: A woman who is unfaithful is forbidden to live with her husband – forgiveness doesn’t help. They must divorce.
(The mishna – see Sotah 28b – and the SH”A cited there in the Ner Mitzva)
I think it is critical to point that out.
They say don’t be so open minded that your brain falls out. . Well here I would say don’t be so open to discuss anything that is up for discussion in a very open way. .. It may need to be done in a eidel and discreet way. . Otherwise if discussed in a public forum it gives it a certain sense of legitimacy and norm o and it removes the gravity and severity from this very sensitive and grave issue. While I’m not implying to totally not discuss it but to be more eidel and discreet and possibly telling… Read more »
I was waiting for Rabbi Jacobson to give this advice
Does not the laws of Sotah apply today? That if there was infidelity they are NOT allowed to be together again? If they are not allowed how can there be reconciliation and if they do not apply… Why not?
RABBI HODAKOVS ONCE GAVE THIS ADVICE TO A PARENT THAT CAME TO HIM WITH A PROBLEM IN SCHOOL.
THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS.
GET AS MANY PARENTS AS POSSIBLE TOGETHER, AND IN UNISON PERSONALLY OR WRITTEN, APPROACH THE HANHOLLA ABOUT THE MATTER, IN AN AIDEL MANNER.
IT WORKED!