MyLife: Chassidus Applied – Episode 22
As we approach Gimmel Tammuz, twenty years since our “sun was silenced,” we bring you a Special Rebbe Edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied. Rabbi Jacobson will respond to many questions surrounding the day and the Rebbe that have been submitted to the MyLife forum since its inception in January.
MyLife demonstrates how to practically apply the teachings of our Rebbeim and Chassidus to the challenges in our personal lives and relationships. This evening, the MyLife forum will be dedicated to addressing the challenge of “observing” Gimmel Tammuz.
Some of the topics in this Sunday’s hour-long broadcast will include:
· What does Gimmel Tammuz represent? What emotions should it conjure up?
· What is the appropriate way to observe the day?
· Must/should one go to the Ohel on Gimmel Tammuz? If yes, why?
· Other than going to the Ohel, is there anything else I can do to feel close to the Rebbe?
· How do I cope with the feeling of defeat and hopelessness that after twenty years, Moshiach hasn’t yet come?
· How do I explain to my children why we don’t have a physical Rebbe? And how we connect with the Rebbe without seeing him?
· Is there more I can do to hasten the coming of Moshiach?
· If Moshiach doesn’t come soon, how are we to understand the Rebbe’s words about the Geulah being imminent?
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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thank you for facing straight on a lot of topics that trouble us and prevent us explaining things to others. May you be blessed and may we all greet moshiach right away
If you do those things it’s very nice….. But
Simon is talking about doing what the Rebbe strived and quested for all the years; to bring moshiach bepoel mamash. Of course you could do those things if you feel that way but this is not the main thing! Bring moshiach like the Rebbe yearned for. It is up to us to learn about moshiach and live moshiach! This is what is demanded from us! You don’t seem to get the whole shiur!!!
Deeply thank you and please please keep going!!
Rabbi Jacobson: I didn’t hear the whole shiur yet, but in continuation to your speech at the even last night, maybe you can also address in one of your talks what the Rebbe writes in Hadran Al Ha-rambam 5746, seif 13 (printed in Likutei Sichos 27): that the way to achieve Moshiach’s arrival is learning Torah for its own sake. The Rebbe explains there that learning Torah for it OWN sake means learning not even in order to know what to DO, but simply because its Hashem’s Torah. And I heard from Reb Yoel that the Rebbe once added to… Read more »
The sun doesn’t get changed , the problem is with the deaf, the silence
Besides for all the beautiful hings you mentioned about preparing for Moshiach ,
being the Rebbe wrote a letter for Yud Shevat,
Would not a proper response include to do the things mentioned in that lettter written in 5711
Most practical progam about 3Tammuz….
Learned from and enjoyed every minute of this hour.
May next week’s episode be broadcast from Yerushalayim!
Yosher Koach Reb Simon.
Please keep these series going. Very much enjoy what R. Jacobson shares every Sunday night.
All the points were so beautifly clarified.
For those asking what needs to be done, as rabbi Jacobson spelled out quite clearly and it is what the rebbe said clearly on the following shabbosim of tut als vos ir Kent that the quickest way to bring moshiach is to learn inyonei geula umoshiach. And to live moshiach in all areas of life etc like explained in the lesson. Well needed. Ty!