How Does Lag B’Omer Apply to My Daily Life? How Can This Day Create Miracles Today? How Can It Open Up Channels of Connection Between My Children and Me? What Did the Rebbe Mean When He Said That Rashbi Is at the Ohel? How Could the Students of Rabbi Akiva Not Respect Each Other? Why Don’t We Recite the Parsha About Manna Every Day?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 589 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, May 3, 2026 / 16 Iyar 5786 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
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The topics in this week’s 589th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
16 Iyar
- Why don’t we recite the Parsha about Manna every day, as well as the Ten Commandments, like we do the Parsha of the Akeidah, as stated in Shulchan Aruch?
Chassidus Applied to Lag B’Omer
- What is the significance of this special day?
- How could the students of Rabbi Akiva not respect each other to the point of it causing a plague?
- Why don’t we see such harsh consequences (G-d forbid) due to other acts of disrespect in our times?
- How did the Mitteler Rebbe celebrate Lag B’Omer?
- Why was it a day of miracles?
- How can Lag B’Omer open up channels of connection between parents and children?
- What is the source that this day is the hilula of Rashbi?
- Why is the day of Rashbi’s passing a time of joy and celebration?
- What is the connection with Hod of Hod?
- Why is Rashbi referred to as Shabbos?
- What were some of the big secrets Rashbi revealed right before his passing?
- How could Rashbi have passed away while he was teaching Torah?
- What is the connection between Lag B’Omer and the gal (mound) that Jacob built to serve as a witness of the boundary between him and Laban?
- How is that consistent with the verse gal einei, which is a state of open revelation, the opposite of Jacob’s gal that separates and conceals?
- How does Chassidus explain the difference between Choni HaMaagel and Rashbi causing it to rain?
- Why did Rashbi hide from the Romans, while the Alter Rebbe allowed himself to be arrested?
- How could Rashbi have caused fire to consume and destroy?
- Is Lag B’Omer or Yud Tes Kislev the Rosh Hashana of the Inner Torah?
- What did the Rebbe mean when he said that Rashbi is at the Ohel?
- Should I write a pan to the Rebbe or to Rashbi, or both?
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