Why Do We Celebrate Hei Teves? Was There a Spiritual Trial and Victory Connected to This Day? Why Were the Stolen Books Considered a Challenge to the Rebbe’s Leadership? What Is the Significance of 10 Teves Being On Friday? How Should I Deal With People Not Dressed Modestly Without Being Rude?
MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 527, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Sunday, January 5, 2025 / 5 Teves 5785 – 8:00-9:00PM ET
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The topics in this week’s 527th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
Chassidus Applied to Hei Teves
· What do we commemorate and celebrate on this day?
· What was the spiritual trial and victory connected to this day?
· Why were the stolen books considered a challenge to the Rebbe’s leadership?
· Why did the Rebbe take such offense to the statement by the opposition that Chabad is not “active”?
· How does Hei Teves express a deeper victory than the miraculous victory of Chanukah?
· What did the Rebbe mean that the stolen books were like live bombs?
· Why was the Rebbe so upset on Beis Kislev about the people hanging out in the streets?
· Why were criminal charges of theft not filed against the accused?
· If G-d infused His “soul” in the Torah, why is the Torah finite?
10 Teves
· What lessons does this day offer us?
· What is the significance of the fast day being on Friday?
· What does it teach us about fighting our battles in Israel today?
Vayechi
· What is the central theme of this Torah chapter?
· What personal and global lessons does it offer us?
· Why did Jacob live his best years in Egypt?
· Why then was he so adamant to be buried in Israel?
· Why did Jacob initially want to tell his family when Moshiach would come and why did G-d prevent him from doing so?
· Why does Yaakov bless some of the 12 tribes with non-kosher animal representation: the lion of Yehuda, the viper of Dan, the ass of Yissachar, and the wolf of Binyamin?
· Who gathered the lost objects that the tribe of Dan dropped?
Miketz
· Is it significant that Parshas Miketz, which alludes to the final geulah, has exactly 2,025 words?
President Jimmy Carter
· What are we to make of the fact that Jimmy Carter, the first president to light a public menorah, passed away on Chanukah? Is that justified?
Chanukah (follow-up)
· Why don’t we light Chanukah candles according to Beis Shammai?
How should I deal with people not dressed modestly without being rude?
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