MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 404, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, May 29, 2022 / 28 Iyar 5782 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
The topics in this week’s 404th episode:
-What can Sinai teach us about the horrific shooting of innocent children in Texas?
-What is missing in our education system that can help prevent wanton violence?
-Chassidus Applied to Bamidbar and Shavuos
– Why do we read Parshas Bamidbar before Mattan Torah?
– Who owns the Torah?
– What is the right way of receiving and learning Torah?
– What is the significance of the Torah being given on Mount Sinai?
– How do we reconcile the census of the Jewish people with the teaching that we are not supposed to count people?
– What exact parts of Torah were given at Sinai?
– How did the Jews oversleep the night before Mattan Torah?
– Why is the 50th level of impurity considered a point of no return when we have a concept in torah that anyone can do immediate teshuva?
– Why do we eat dairy on this holiday?
-Why don’t we read from the Torah every day?
-What’s the difference between a hidden blessing and a revealed blessing? And why would anyone want a hidden blessing?
-Why are we told in the Torah about the negative actions of our forbearers?
-What did the Rebbe initiate 55 years this week – two days before the 6-Day War?
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