What’s the Best Response to the Recent Discord in Israel? Invite a Jew You Disagree With to Your Seder; How Should We Honor Yud Alef Nissan? Should We Put More Emphasis on Learning the Rebbe’s Maamarim? What Is the Central Message of Pesach? What Is the Significance of Burning the Chometz? If Eating Matzah Represents Humility, Why Don’t We Eat It Every Day of the Year? Should We Refuse to Invite Any Wayward Children to the Seder?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 444, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, April 2, 2023 / 11 Nissan 5783 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
>> Special Yud Alef Nissan and Pesach Edition <<
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The topics in this week’s 444th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus Applied to Yud Alef Nissan
o How should we honor this special day?
o Did the Rebbe say that the best birthday present he would like to receive would be an increase in learning Torah?
o Should we put more emphasis on learning the Rebbe’s maamarim?
o What were some of the important telegrams the Rebbe Rashab sent to the Rebbes parents before and after his birth?
o What happened to the art and gifts the rebbe received at Yud Alef Nissan farbrengens?
- Can you teach a class on how hanochos were written and published?
- Lessons from Tzemech Tzedek’s Hilula on Yud Gimmel Nissan
- Lessons from Rambam’s birthday on Yud Daled Nissan
- Chassidus Applied to Passover
o What is the central message of Pesach?
o What is the significance of burning the chometz?
o Why is it important to eat handmade instead of machine-made matzah? And why is it round?
o Why is matzah sometimes called “bread of affliction” and other times “bread of freedom”?
o If eating matzah represents humility, why don’t we eat it every day of the year?
o Should we refuse to invite any wayward children to the Seder?
o Are Jews in prison required to do a seder?
o Did the Jews build the pyramids?
- What should we do about the recent discord in Israel?
- Are the recent protests in Israel a form of hakhel?
- A call for unprecedented Jewish unity: Invite a Jew you disagree with to your Seder
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