What Is the Personal Significance of Rosh Hashana?

Applied Chassidus with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: What Is the Personal Significance of Rosh Hashana? Why Does This Day Offer Us New Opportunities and Possibilities? What Does Day of Judgment Mean? Video

September 21, 2025 – 28 Elul 5785

Applied Chassidus with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: What Is the Personal Significance of Rosh Hashana? Why Does This Day Offer Us New Opportunities and Possibilities? What Does Day of Judgment Mean? Video

What Is the Personal Significance of Rosh Hashana? Why Does This Day Offer Us New Opportunities and Possibilities? What Does Day of Judgment Mean? Why Don’t We Always See the Fulfillment of Our Prayers? Are We Allowed to Ask for Physical Success and Wealth? Is There Truth to the Story With the Rebbetzin Asking That Blessings for the New Year Should Be Directed to Klal Yisroel Instead of to Her Personally? What Is the Meaning of the Alter Rebbe Saying That He Davened on Rosh Hashana With His “Shtender”? What Can We Do to Assure That Hashem Will Have Mercy on the Remaining Hostages and Have Them All Safely Freed?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 561, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, September 21, 2025 / 28 Elul 5785 – 8:00-9:00PM ET

>> Special Rosh Hashana Edition <<

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The topics in this week’s 561st episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

Special Rosh Hashana Edition

Why does Rosh Hashana offer us new opportunities and possibilities?

Erev Rosh Hashana

· Why is it customary to visit the gravesite of the righteous before Rosh Hashana?

· Please describe how to write a letter to the Rebbe at the Ohel. Or do you write to G-d in merit of the Rebbe?

· What is the connection to the Tzemach Tzedek’s birthday on Erev Rosh Hashana?

Chassidus Applied to Rosh Hashana

· What is the personal significance of this day?

· What is the connection between Rosh Hashana being the birthday of the human race and it being the Day of Judgment?

· What does Judgment mean?

· What does it mean to be written in the Book of Life?

· Why don’t we always see the fulfillment of our prayers?

· How can we create the proper containers for G-d’s blessings?

· Are we allowed to ask for physical success and wealth?

· Is there one prayer to focus on?

· Why do we read on Rosh Hashana the story of Chana praying for a child?

· What do we learn from Chana about how to pray?

· Why is praying for our needs not a lack of faith in G-d’s plans for us?

· How do we balance both extremes of focusing on coronating G-d as King and our own needs?

· How can we mere mortals crown G-d as our King when G-d is completely beyond us and our comprehension?

· Is there truth to the story with the Rebbetzin asking that blessings for the new year should be directed to Klal Yisroel instead of to her personally?

· What is the meaning of the Alter Rebbe saying that he davened on Rosh Hashana with his “shtender”?

· Why is parnasa for the year determined during the reading of the “Mizmor L’David” recited on Rosh Hashana evening?

· Can I dip my apple in sugar?

Rosh Hashana 5786

· What is the significance of Rosh Hashana falling out on Tuesday?

· What acronym can be suggested for the year Tov Shin Peh Vav?

Shofar

· Is there a connection between the commandment to make and sound trumpets to the shofar that we blow today on Rosh Hashana?

· What is the difference between a regular shofar and “the great shofar”?

· Why does the sounder of the shofar look at the community after blowing the shofar?

· Was it important to look at the Rebbe when he sounded the shofar?

What is the connection of Rosh Hashana with the Baal Shem Tov hearing that Moshiach will come when his wellsprings are spread outward?

What can we do to ensure that Hashem will have mercy on the remaining hostages and have them all safely freed?

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