MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 248, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, February 10, 2019 / 5 Adar I 5779 – 8:00-9:00PM EST
* Chassidus Applied to Zayin Adar I and Tetzaveh
* Should I be concerned over an ominous chain letter I received?
* Are their guidelines for using hypnosis to treat mental health?
* Will we be able to have children in the world to come?
* When a yeshiva sends students as shluchim to other yeshivos, is it considered as if the Rebbe is sending them, or as a faculty decision (which could be mistaken)?
* What boundaries should be kept when single girls have male teachers?
Follow-up:
* Mental health referrals (episodes 243-244)
* Nursing (episode 245)
* Can anyone publish the Rebbe’s talks? (episodes 246-247)
* Not listening to the Rebbe (episode 247)
* Abortion (episode 247)
* How does chassidus explain the prohibition of abortion?
* Shaming abusers (episodes 202-204)
Chassidus question: How do you explain the idea of mokom aron ayno min ha’midah – the “space of the ark is not (included) in the dimensions (of the Holy of Holies),” i.e. did not occupy space? – Part II
My Life 2018 essays:
* Understanding and Dealing with Events, Chana Shpiegel, 36, Jerusalem, Israel
* Chassidus Lessons from Physical Therapy, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, 62, Brighton, MA
* Letting Go with Love: Resolving the Paradox of Ahavas Yisroel, Sasha Balofsky, 29, Philadelphia, PA
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U r 100% right. And so is everyone else commenting about the negatives of a male figure farbrenging with girls/women. Even as teachers, males should be relegated to teach males & women can very well teach women. We have some outstanding lamdaniyos today. This of course doesn’t apply to a one time talk/lecture. Am referring to teaching subject matter on a regular basis: day to day or week to week. If and where possible, best to keep the genders separate.
100%% Totally inappropriate. However, an older man (50 plus) teaching a class (not farbrenging etc…) is certainly fine
Very simple , theres no women that could teach as well as a man , therefore you need rabbis teaching…
I went to a oot day school and looking back at my teen years there were two rabbis in particular who crossed many boundaries. Thankfully not talking physical boundaries, but emotional relationships were made. As a teen this never seemed inappropriate, quite the opposite I felt special to have this extra attention, getting extra talks after clases, gifts, phone calls etc. None of this ever seemed strange to me. As a married woman with kids now I am mortified. Being married I now realize how inappropriate these “friendships” I formed with married men were. There are plenty of knowledgable women… Read more »
Rabbis shouldn’t be farbrenging late into the night with women… especially single women. I worked in a sem as a dorm counselor and had many situations where I was extremely uncomfortable. One Rabbi, after some l’chaims, late at night with 30-40 girls surrounding him….doesnt sit right..and sometimes…if the Rabbi got too comfy… semi- inappropriate things happened. Unless your a Tzaddik vetov lo…A rabbi Should not put himself in a situation like this. A lecture for a designated amount of time, a class…thats ok..that cozy farbrengen style, late hours , young women…not ok…not ok
I never understood this practice and I have always felt that this represents a true hypocrisy in our community, and I’m considered a “modern” guy.
This only reinforces the idea “the rabbis make the rules only to exclude themselves from it”
There are BH enough capable woman to teach and run the sems, high schools etc. Just try imagining a woman giving a lesson in a yeshiva.
This includes people that call them selves Rabbies and anoint themselves as therapist
The time is ripe for men to get jobs elsewhere. There is no need to have men reaching for Farbenging with girls, even more so in high school and seminary.
This is not okay. It never was okay. And it should not be tolerated. At all.
Shliach