How to Deal With a Spouse’s Zealotry? Should We Leave Our Shlichus Due to a Health Threat of Tics? Why Did G-d Create Mosquitos? How Are The Nine Days Reflected in Our Psyches? How Do We Reconcile R’ Levi Yitzchak Berditchever’s Explanation of Chazon With Its Literal Meaning?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 458, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, July 16, 2023 / 27 Tammuz 5783 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
The topics in this week’s 458th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
· Chassidus applied to the Nine Days
o What do we learn from these days?
o How are they reflected in our psyches?
o What is the significance of Aaron’s yahrzeit on Rosh Chodesh Av?
o Why specifically nine days?
· Lessons from Shabbos Chazon
o How do we reconcile R’ Levi Yitzchak Berditchever’s explanation of Chazon with its literal meaning?
o How to transform a vision of destruction into a vision of redemption?
· Lessons from Parshas Devarim
o What is the general lesson from this chapter?
o Why is Devarim called Mishneh Torah?
o Does it have the same divinity as the first four books since it was spoken by Moshe?
o Since every word in Torah is precise, why was it necessary for Moshe to repeat some events and laws in Mishneh Torah?
o Why were the two and a half tribes that wanted to settle outside the borders of Israel not judged as harshly as the scouts?
· How to deal with a spouse’s zealotry?
· Should we leave our shlichus due to a health threat of tics?
· Why did G-d create mosquitos?
· Dealing with narcissism – follow-up
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There must be distinction made between a “Personality Disorder” and Traits of a Disorder.
NPD – Narcissist Personality Disorder, is very destructive and extremely complex to manage.
Narcissistic traits can be unlearned