MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 262, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, May 26, 2019 / 21 Iyar 5779 – 8:00-9:00PM EST
The topics in this week’s 262nd episode of the highly acclaimed popular MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus Applied to Bechukosei and Blessing the Month of Sivan
- Is Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students a rounded or an actual number?
- Who authored the Zohar and what are its origins?
- Why did G-d create poor people?
- How can I deal with conflicting feelings about Yiddishkeit and Chabad – I feel at times that I am living a double life?
- Should non-Jewish spouses be welcomed in synagogues?
- Does a tinok she’nishba have free will?
- What is the legal and theological perspective on comatose states and brain death?
- Anti-Semitism – follow-up
- Chassidus question: Who repairs the “shattered” containers of Tohu – G-d or us?
- My Life 2019 essay contest winners: התעלמות והדחקה כפתרון אפקטיבי, Yisroel Dandrowitz, 41, Arad, Israel; מי שם פה לאדם, Menachem Mendel Amiti, 24, Jerusalem, Israel;מיינדפולנס חסידי, Shmuel Elboim, 40, Beitar Illit, Israel
This hour-long dose of insights, broadcast live every Sunday night 8-9PM EST, is meant to inform, inspire and empower us by applying the teachings of Chassidus to help us face practical and emotional challenges and difficulties in our personal lives and relationships. To have your question addressed, please submit it at chassidusapplied.com/ask.