Can I Get Married If I Don’t Love Myself? What Is Our Attitude to the Secular New Year? How to Respond to the Faith of Another Religion? How to Deal with Married Children Who Are Not Frum? The Rubashkin Phenomenon Cont’d; Suggestions to R’ Jacobson
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 195, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, December 31, 2017 / 13 Tevet 5778 – 8:00-9:00PM EST
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The topics in this week’s 195th episode of the highly acclaimed popular MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
Chassidus Applied to Shemos
What is our attitude to the secular New Year?
How to respond to someone of another religion about their faith?
Can I get married if I don’t love myself?
How to deal with married children who are not frum?
Follow-up:
The Rubashkin phenomenon (episode 194)
Jerusalem as capital (episode 194)
Dreidel
Ultrasound (episodes 190-191. 193)
Corrections to episode 194
Suggestions to Rabbi Jacobson
Chassidus Question: How to reconcile free will and divine providence
MyLife Essays: Retain Jewish Pride in a Modern Society, by Mendeli Allouche, 16, Scottsdale, Arizona; Explaining Resurrection, by אליהו שוויכה, 29, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Battle of the Two Souls, by Miri Shanowitz, 19, Brooklyn, NY. These and other essays can be read online at meaningfullife.com/essays.
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Thank you. I found this very episode very informative. Explaining the bckground related to the “new year” gave me context and demystified what i was previously confused about. Yasher koach.
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MOST IF NOT ALL FRUM YIDDEN DONT KNOW OR WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. SO WHY MENTION IT?
WHAT WE DO KNOW US ITS ALL SHTUS AND MOLEI TUMA. NOT NOGEA TO US.
This question came from what you said about nittle, notthe Rubashkin case. In Tanya it says that evil does not exist and is just an absence of light. But we also know there is power in evil.. as you recognized Dec 25th as a day where we don’t want to feed the yenikas hachitzoniyus. So does evil exist but or not? It does but it’s not real existence?
Thank you
is also the time pope (and later saint) sylvester died and is a celebrated event around the world due to many believing their luck for the coming year will be enhanced by this saint/pope.
Unfortunately sylvester was a vicious anti-semite and was responsible for the deaths of many of our brethren. So, by celebrating new years one indirectly also celebrates this anti-semites holiday !!!