MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 587 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, April 19, 2026 / 2 Iyar 5786 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
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The topics in this week’s 587th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
Beis Iyar
· How do we apply l’chatchila ariber in our lives?
Acharei-Kedoshim
· What lessons do we learn from living with the times, with this week’s Torah parsha?
· Is there a connection between these two chapters?
· How do I sanctify my life?
· What was wrong with Nadav and Avihu’s behavior?
Tazria-Metzora
· What is the relevance of the spiritual maladies in these Torah portions to our times?
· How does one find mental, emotional and psychological healing?
· Is there a connection between Mitzrayim and Metzora?
Iyar
· Does Ani Hashem Rofecho include all forms of healing?
· What can we to do to see these blessings?
Omer
· What maamar would you suggest we learn that explains Sefiras Ha’Omer?
· Why do we need to refine our emotions every year when the Jews already did that before receiving the Torah?
· Why do we only refine our emotional midos and not our intellectual midos?
· How do we understand chesed within chesed, gevurah within gevurah etc.?
· Is it inappropriate to use a phone app to remind us to count sefira?
· Why is it customary to study Mesechta Sotah during sefira?
Post Pesach and Iran
· What lessons can we learn from this time period regarding world events?
· What is expected of us during these days?
· Why did G-d not protect the young soldier killed in Lebanon before Pesach?
Chof Ches Nissan – 35 years later
· What is a summary and explanation of the Rebbe’s famous 28 Nissan sicha?
· Is there a connection between that sicha and that of Purim 5747?
· How did the Rebbe explain his words in a “straightforward way” in the farbrengen of Shabbos Tazria-Metzora 5751?
· Has anything changed since the Rebbe’s talk 35 years ago?
· If we are closer than ever to the geulah, why does the world situation and the anxiety caused by it seem to be getting worse rather than better?
· What should we be doing now, 35 years after 28 Nissan 5751?
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