How Do We Respond to Arguments Claiming That Jews Are Racists?

How Do We Respond to Arguments Claiming That Jews Are Racists? How Does Elul Empower Us Today? Why Is It the “King” and Not the “Queen” in the Field? Why Do We Pray at a Tzaddik’s Resting Place During Elul?

The topics in this week’s 512th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

How does Elul empower us today?

· How can we ensure that the 13 Divine attributes of compassion radiating this month manifest in our collective and personal lives – in helping secure the release of the hostages, in bringing us blessings in our livelihood, health, children etc.?

· Should we buy lottery tickets this month?

· What accounting (cheshbon ha’nefesh) should we be doing during this month?

· Is Elul initiated from above or from below?

· Why is it the “king” and not the “queen” in the field?

· Is everything in Judaism centered around men?

· How does the Alter Rebbe’s example relate to our times when kings don’t go out into the field?

· Should leaders be going out into the “field”?

· Why do we blow shofar every day in Elul in preparation for Rosh Hashana and don’t eat matzah every day for a month in preparation for Pesach?

· Why do we pray at a tzaddik’s resting place during this month?

· How is this reconciled with the prohibition of “praying to the deceased”?

What do we learn from Parshas Ki Teitzei?

· What does the opening verse teach us about how to fight today’s war?

· What is its connection to Elul?

· Do the laws of capturing enemy women apply today?

· Why is the mitzvah of shiluach ha’kan related only in the book of Devarim?

· What is it about Amalek that makes them our long-standing arch enemy?

Does Jewish supremacy have any basis?

· How do we respond to arguments claiming that Jews are racists?

· Why are Jews called the “chosen people”?

· What is the Jewish view of non-Jews?

MyLife: Chassidus Applied is a weekly video webcast candidly answering questions from the public about all life matters and challenges, covering the entire spectrum of human experience.

This hour-long dose of insights, broadcast live every Sunday night 8-9PM ET, is meant to provide people with inspired guidance and direction, empowering them to deal with any issue they may face.

In what has become a staple in so many people’s lives, MyLife: Chassidus Applied has provoked a significant reaction from the community, with thousands of people viewing each live broadcast and hundreds of questions pouring in week after week. At the root of every question and personal challenge tackled by the series is the overarching question: Does Judaism have the answers to my personal dilemmas?

MyLife demonstrates how Chassidus provides us with a comprehensive blueprint of the human psyche as a microcosm of the cosmos, and offers us all the guidance we need to live the healthiest possible life and build nurturing homes and families, bringing up the healthiest possible children, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. MyLife is brought to you by the Meaningful Life Center as a public service, free of charge.

Questions may be submitted anonymously at chassidusapplied.com/ask.

Live Video

Also at: chassidusapplied.com/mlc-tv

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/mylife-chassidus-applied