What Do We Learn From the Car Ramming at 770?

The topics in this week’s 579th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

15th of Shevat

· Why do we celebrate the New Year for Trees?

· Why don’t we celebrate it on the third day of creation, when trees and vegetation were created?

· How do trees celebrate their new year?

· What is the basis of Shammai and Hillel’s different opinions of when we celebrate the new year for trees?

· Can it serve as an analogy for stages in the revelation of Moshiach?

· Was this day celebrated in Biblical times?

· What is a 15th of Shevat Seder and how do we conduct one?

· What are some lessons we learn from trees?

Shevat

· Is there a source that Shevat is the acronym of sheyihi besuros tovos?

· Why is Shevat considered a month of good news when sad events took place in it, such as the passing of the Frierdiker Rebbe and Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka?

Yisro

· What lessons do we learn from living with the times, with this week’s Torah parsha?

· How do the three major events in the book Shemos – Exodus, Matan Torah, building the mishkan – reflect three key stages in our personal, collective and cosmic journey?

· Why is Matan Torah in Parshas Yisro?

· How would you describe G-d?

· Is G-d aware of His own existence?

· Why did the giving of the Torah begin with the Ten Commandments?

· How did Matan Torah change the world?

· Why were they not allowed to approach Mt. Sinai, but today anyone can climb that mountain?

· Why are the Jewish people called a “kingdom of priests”?

· Is Mitzrayim compared to the meitzar ha’goron, the narrow neck?

Beshalach

· Why was there a need for the parting of the sea, when their path to Israel did not require going through the Red Sea?

· Was the parting of the sea an actual event or a metaphor?

· What is the significance of the people singing the song of the sea after it was parted?

· What is the power of song?

What lessons do we learn from the car ramming into 770 on the night of Yud Shevat?

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