How Do We Honor the Rebbe’s 123rd Birthday? Is There a Connection to the Rambam’s Birthday on Erev Pesach? How Do I Personalize the Pesach Experience? How Would You Advise Me to Use the Extra Time on My Hands During This Yom Tov Season? Why Are We Forbidden From Eating Chametz? Why Are There Extra Chumras on Pesach More Than All Year Round? Why Do We Eat Matzah? What Is the Relationship Between the Last Day of Pesach and Moshiach?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 540, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, April 6, 2025 / 8 Nissan 5785 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
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The topics in this week’s 540th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
Yud Alef Nissan
- How do we honor the Rebbe’s 123rd birthday?
- What is the significance of the number eleven?
- How is it related to the Rebbe’s leadership?
- Is there a connection to the Rambam’s birthday on Erev Pesach?
Pesach
– Personalizing the experience
- Why is Yetziyas Mitzrayim so central to life?
- Why do we need to envision ourselves leaving Mitzrayim in every generation and every day?
- Why do the Ten Commandments begin with I am your G-d that took you out of Egypt and not that Created heaven and earth?
- If we must remember the Egyptian exodus every day, why is Pesach only eight days?
- How would you advise me to use the extra time on my hands during this Yom Tov season?
- In addition to addressing negative Pesach experiences, can you also focus on positive and beautiful elements?
- What are some prayers we can say the week before Pesach to ask Hashem for extra blessings in our lives, for a living, good health etc.?
– Chametz
- Why are we forbidden from eating chametz?
- Why are there extra chumras on Pesach more than all year round?
- Why do we use a feather, spoon and candle when searching for chametz?
- Why did they add the chumra not to eat chametz from Erev Pesach in the morning?
- Why don’t Ashkenazim eat kitniyot (legumes), while some Sefardim do?
- Why don’t we eat gebrokts?
– Seder
- Did the Rebbe ever tell us what is his favorite part of the Seder?
- Why do we eat matzah – due to it being the bread of affliction or due to the Jews not having time to wait until the dough rose?
- Is eating matzah a rectification of the sin of eating from the Tree of Knowledge?
- How does eating certain foods such as matzah, horseradish, and charoset dip align our souls with the energy of freedom?
- Why do we call them “four questions” when there are actually five, including mah nishtana?
- Why are there four questions?
- What do we say that during the year we don’t dip even once, when in fact we dip the challah in salt?
– Last Days
- What is the connection between the last day of Pesach and Moshiach?
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