How Do I Personalize the Holidays?

Applied Chassidus with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: How Do I Personalize the Holidays? What Is the Single Most Important Thing We Need to Do on Rosh Hashana? Why Don’t We Sound the Shofar on Shabbos? Video

September 10, 2023 – 24 Elul 5783

MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 466, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, September 10, 2023 / 24 Elul 5783 – 8:00-9:00PM ET

>>> Special Holiday Edition <<<

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The topics in this week’s 466^th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

TISHREI

What is the significance of this month?

ROSH HASHANA

How do I personalize Rosh Hashana?
Why is there no special commemoration of Elul 25, when the world was created?
Why do some people have the custom to visit cemeteries Erev Rosh Hashana?
If we can narrow it down, what is the single most important thing we need to do on Rosh Hashana?
What is the book of life and how do we get inscribed (with a “full page ad”) in it?
Why do we dip an apple in honey?
Is it better to make good resolutions that are small but easily achievable, or larger and more difficult ones?
Is it appropriate to resolve to transgress and then refrain from doing so?
Why can’t Rosh Hashana be on a Friday when the first Rosh Hashana was a Friday?
Why don’t we sound the Shofar on Shabbos? How does Shabbos spiritually accomplish the same thing that blowing the shofar accomplishes?
Has anyone yet come up with an acronym for the new year tof shin pey daled?

TEN DAYS OF TESHUVA

What is the significance of these days and how do I personalize them?

YOM KIPPUR

How do I personalize Yom Kippur?
Why does Yom Kippur come after Rosh Hashana?
Why did the Rebbe dance on a chair during Napolean’s March?

YOM KIPPUR TO SUKKOS

What is the significance of the four-day transition from Yom Kippur to Sukkos?
Why is Sukkos such a joyous holiday?
Is it related to Yom Kippur?
How do I personalize Simchas Torah?

HOLIDAYS

How does Chassidus explain the spiritual energy of all the high holidays and why they all come together at the beginning of the year?
Is it called the high holidays because our prayers can travel higher than normal during these holidays
Is there a limit how far our prayers can travel through the spiritual worlds? Can our prayers reach the essence of G-d?

SUKKOS

Why is Sukkos not in the Spring after Pesach?
Are those that sleep in a Sukkah doing anything wrong?
Hakhel: If G-d enjoys us gathering together, why do we only do it in a Hakhel year?
Follow-up: How to resolve a disagreement between spouses whether to hang a picture of a secular hero near the picture of the Rebbe?

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