What Lessons Do We Learn From Chof Zayin Adar? Did the Rebbe Say Anything Prior to This Day Preparing Us for Events to Come? Would the Rebbe Oppose the Dismantling of the Department of Education? Is It Appropriate for Rabbis to Post Political Click-Bait Videos Just to Increase Their Views? Should We Participate and Vote in the Upcoming World Zionist Congress Election? Pikudei: Why Is Accountability So Vital? How Do We Prepare for Pesach Thirty Days Before the Holiday?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 538, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, March 23, 2025 / 23 Adar 5785 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
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The topics in this week’s 538th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
The Increasing Joy of Adar
27 Adar
- What lessons do we learn from this day?
- Did the Rebbe say anything prior to this day preparing us for events to come?
Pekudei
- The chronology of this week’s Torah portion and the following books of the Torah
- What is the central theme of this week’s Torah chapter?
- Why is accountability so vital?
- What personal and global lessons does it offer us for our times?
- Why was a cloud descending on the Mishkan a sign of the Shechina’s presence?
Parshas Parah/Four Parshios
- How does Chassidus explain why the Parah Adumah purifies the impurity of death? And why does it impurify the pure?
- What is the source of your explanation on the progression of the four chapters?
HaChodesh/Nissan/Pesach
- How do we apply Parshas HaChodesh to our lives today?
- Why is the period around Purim and Pesach connected to the obliteration of Amalek?
- Do we commemorate the erection of the Mishkan on Rosh Chodesh Nissan?
- Why are we not told to increase in joy in the month of Nissan?
- How do we prepare for Pesach thirty days before the holiday?
- Do our sages guarantee that the redemption will come in Nissan?
- How do we understand the statement that Moshe was the first redeemer and will be the last redeemer?
Would the Rebbe oppose the dismantling of the Department of Education?
Is it appropriate for Rabbis to post political click-bait videos just to increase their views?
Should we participate and vote in the upcoming World Zionist Congress election?
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