What Can We Do Differently and Better This Elul to Ensure That 5785 Will Be a Great Year? How Can Elul Help Us During These Trying Times? How Much Effort Must One Make to Create a Vessel for G-d’s Blessings? Am I Responsible for Someone Else’s Transgressions? If the Curses in This Week’s Chapter Are Really the Deepest Hidden Blessings, Why Do We Read It in an Undertone and No Is Called Up to That Reading? What More Can We Do to Release the Remaining Hostages?
The topics in this week’s 513th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
How can Elul help us during these trying times?
What can we do differently and better this Elul to ensure that 5785 will be a great year?
Can you explain in practical terms how I can connect to the king in the field?
Why don’t we find Elul and its special customs mentioned in the Talmud or the Rambam?
What is the proper translation of kesiva v’chasima tova?
Did the Rebbe say that his favorite prayer is modeh ani?
What can we draw from the special days during this week of Elul?
13 Elul
15 Elul
18 Elul
How much effort must one make to create a vessel for G-d’s blessings?
As an introverted artist uncomfortable with reaching out to curators and galleries, what more can I do to get my art out there?
Am I responsible for someone else’s transgressions?
What do we learn from Parshas Ki Tavo?
What does the opening verse teach us?
What is its connection to Elul?
If the curses in this week’s chapter are really deep hidden blessings, why do we read them in an undertone, and no one is called up to that reading?
Why does it take 40 years to truly understand the Torah and have a complete relationship with Hashem?
War in Israel
What more can we do to release the remaining hostages?
How can we honor the souls of those brutally murdered?
How can I get beyond my anguish for the families of the hostages and those that have lost loved ones? How can I find a balance between holding space and praying for them and living my own life?
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