How Can a Torah Observant Jew Be Obnoxious?

MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 400, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, May 1, 2022 / 1st Day Rosh Chodesh Iyar 5782 – 8:00-9:00PM ET

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The topics in this week’s 400th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

– Chassidus Applied to the month of Iyar

– What energy and message does this month contain?

– What are the different acronyms of Iyar?

– What is true health and true healing?

– Lessons from Parshas Kedoshim

– What is holiness?

– How is it different than goodness?

– What does the Kedoshim add to all the many other verses where we are told to sanctify ourselves?

– How can a Torah observant Jew be obnoxious?

– Why is love the “entire Torah” when many mitzvos are between man and G-d?

– Is eating and sleeping l’shem shomayim a mitzva equal to mitzvos like tefillin, shabbos and kashrus, because it falls under kedoshim ti’hiyu?

– How can the Torah speak negatively about people when there is a prohibition of loshon hara?

– Will committing not to sacrifice our children to Moloch help us have children?

– What do we learn from pigul?

– How do I explain to my children why we can’t attend a Yom Ha’atzmaut event?

– How do I honor my mother who just passed away?

– Why isn’t music used more often in shuls and Jewish institutions?

– Chassidus question: Can we be as holy as G-d?

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