Is the Recent Cease Fire and Hostage Exchange a Positive Thing? What Should Be Our Long-Term Goal?ppl With All the Disappointments Should We Become More Complacent? 20 Teves and 24 Teves; How Should We Prepare for the 75th Anniversary of Yud Shevat? What Is a Short Synopsis of Chapter 15 of Basi L’Gani? What Is a Practical Example of “Splurging the Treasures” Applicable to Our Times?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 529, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, January 19, 2025 / 19 Teves 5785 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
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The topics in this week’s 529th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
Is the recent cease-fire and hostage exchange a positive thing?
· What would the Rebbe say about this?
· Is there anything positive that emerged from the hostage crisis?
· What should be our long-term goal?
· With all the disappointments should we become more complacent?
Chof Teves
· What can we learn from the Rambam today?
· How was the Rambam unique?
Chof Daled Teves
· What can we learn from the Alter Rebbe today?
· What does his name represent?
· What were the Alter Rebbe’s last words to the Tzemach Tzedek?
· Is this yahrzeit a sad day?
· How do we honor it?
· Is it appropriate to reprimand those who persecuted the Alter Rebbe?
Vaeira
· What is the central theme of this Torah chapter?
· What personal and global lessons does it offer us?
· Should we expect to see ten plagues against Iran and its proxies?
Yud Shevat – 75 Years
· How should we prepare for this day?
· What is a short synopsis of the main ideas and innovative chiddushim of chapter 15 of Basi L’Gani?
· What is a practical example of “splurging the treasures” (bizbuz ha’otzros) applicable to our times?
· How do we explain the difference between the preciousness of seven and the transcendence of eight?
· How do we receive answers from the Rebbe today?
LA Fires
· Should we be celebrating a mezuzah preserved in a burned-down building?
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It seems that israel will not have any control of rafa crossings, so here goes hamas again rebuilding.
This war was a total waste.nothing good was accomplished.
And netanyahu is finished.
Israel is Not an independent state.its a puppet of America.
Until moshiach comes israel is not mature to run its country.
May god protect us.
Nothing to add you said it all , but watch some intellectuals manipulators explain to us with words of Torah that it’s not such a bad deal , nobody cares about the long term effects anymore, no Amakas a daas
We did not exchange hostages!!! We released murderers.
Moshe Rabbeinu told Paroh that all of Bnai Yisroel must be sent out of Mitzraim and their animals. He demanded what he wanted.
While I am against this deal, your fatalism is counterproductive and can create a self-fulfilling prophesy. The final word has not been said as for what the future holds, and the end of the war is hardly a foregone conclusion. And no, Israel is not a “puppet.” Yes, we endure enormous challenges. And we do endure them.
How could You say such a thing, listen to the rebbe speaking about giving away land and you will know that even to give them 1 shekel is wrong because then they will get the image that they could blackmail us, and this is not even an image, this is clear, every terrosrist, nurderer that is realeased will go an kill more yidden r”l look at gilad shalit, 820 of the 1000 released terrorists have murdered other people and the ceasefire, that is just an undo button, every soldier that gave up his life, every second of ceasefire is just… Read more »