How to Respond to the Murders in DC?

MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 545, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, May 25, 2025 / 27 Iyar 5785 – 8:00-9:00PM ET

>> Special Shavuos Edition <<

The topics in this week’s 545th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

How should we respond to the latest tragic Washington murders?
· Where is Hashem in all of this?
· Is there something we can do?
· Should we stop displaying our Jewish identity, not go to shul, remove Jewish symbols?

Bamidbar
· Why do we read this Torah chapter before Shavuos?
· Who owns the Torah? Can anyone claim royalties?
· What personal and global lessons does it offer us for our times?

Shavuos
· What is the personal significance of this holiday?
· What is the Torah, and why is the giving of the Torah such a monumental event?
· What is the deeper meaning of so many seemingly trivial details in the Torah?
· Why is it important for everyone to go to shul on Shavuos to hear the Ten Commandments if we have already heard them in previous years?
· If the “entire Torah” is about loving another, why do we see many Torah observant people who are not loving?
· Does the “entire Torah” include the inner dimension of Torah?
· Why do the Ten Commandments begin with describing G-d as taking us out of Egypt and not as Creator? And why not G-d that will bring the final redemption?
· What does Anochi signify?
· Why were spouses commanded not to be intimate before Mattan Torah? Isn’t intimacy a sacred act?
· Why do we dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah and not on Shavuos?
· Why do we celebrate receiving the Torah when we didn’t even have a chance to read it yet?
· Is there a Maamar Chassidus on the book of Ruth that you would suggest we study?

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