What Psychological Lessons Do We Learn From the Three Weeks?

Applied Chassidus with Rabbi Simon Jacobson: What Psychological Lessons Do We Learn From the Three Weeks in Dealing With Our Own Setbacks and Difficulties? How Do We Look At Today’s Events in the Middle East Through the Lens of this Time Period? Video

July 20, 2025 – 24 Tammuz 5785

What Psychological Lessons Do We Learn From the Three Weeks in Dealing With Our Own Setbacks and Difficulties? How Do We Look At Today’s Events in the Middle East Through the Lens of this Time Period? After All the Signs and Promises That Moshiach Is About to Come, How Do We Avoid Being Skeptical That It Will Happen Now? What Did the Rebbe Mean When He Said That the Birurim Were Completed? How to Achieve Geulah Consciousness and Integrate the Moshiach Paradigm Into Our Daily Lives and Routines? The Rebbe Said: “Do All You Can.” What More Can We Do?

MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 552, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, July 20, 2025 / 24 Tammuz 5785 – 8:00-9:00PM ET

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The topics in this week’s 552nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

Three Weeks and Moshiach

· What powerful psychological lessons do we learn from this period in dealing with our own setbacks and difficulties?

· How do we look at today’s events in the Middle East through the lens of the Three Weeks?

· Are they a sign of the imminent redemption?

· After all the signs and promises that Moshiach is about to come, how do we avoid being skeptical that it will happen now?

· What did the Rebbe mean when he said that the birurim were completed?

· How do we receive and greet Moshiach?

· How to achieve geulah consciousness?

· Will the Third Temple be a physical structure or a spiritual state of consciousness?

· What does it mean that we are not “obligated to finish the job, but we are not free to abandon it” either?

· The Rebbe said: “do all you can.” What more can we do?

· Should we be trying any “trick” methods to bring the geulah?

· Should we be quitting our jobs and just be focusing on the work to prepare ourselves and the world for Moshiach?

· Does the geulah have to come by the year 6000?

· How can we integrate the geulah paradigm into our daily lives and routines?

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