Mylife: Chassidus Applied

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to 12-13 Tammuz and Chukas-Balak 01:48 • Fighting for what you believe in: Lessons from 12-13 Tammuz 07:28 • Are your commitments superimposed or engraved in you?  • How can we know if we have made a successful connection with the Rebbe? 30:48 • Is increasing in goodness and kindness the best way to honor Gimmel Tammuz? 28:08 • Can you share your personal experience of Gimmel Tammuz? 35:43 • What’s your opinion on the tearing down of statues? 47:01 • How should we react to firewo

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times   • Chassidus Applied to Gimmel Tammuz and Korach: Lessons for our times  • Why do I need a Rebbe?  • How do I connect with the Rebbe after 26 years?  • How do I practically honor Gimmel Tammuz?  • Should we be afraid of rising anti-Semitism in the present climate?  • What specific mitzvah can we do to counter all the violent protests?  • Follow-up: What is our attitude to racism?  • Is dark skin a r

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times  07:07 • Chassidus Applied to 28 Sivan and Shelach 10:25 • What is our attitude to racism?  25:08 • Are there expressions of racism in the Torah? 31:52 • Is dark skin color a result of a punishment? 41:01 • Why do we make a blessing boruch meshaneh ha’briyos? 50:37 • Why did G-d make people so different? 52:20 • Did Moses marry a black woman? 55:56 • Were the Jews who left Egypt black? 59:28 • With all the unrest, should we consi

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times   • Chassidus Applied to 15 Sivan and Behaalotecho  • What is the significance of "raising the flames until they rise on their own"?  • What is our attitude to racism and to the recent violent protests?  • Should we be joining the peaceful protests? On Shabbos?  • Can we compare racism today to the persecution faced by the Jewish people throughout history?  • Should Chassidim be discussing the riots?  • W

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Post-Shavuos and Nasso regarding our challenges today 02:16 • What should be our perspective on the latest violent protests in cities across the U.S.? 08:15 • Lessons from the Aseres Hadibros for our times 16:03 • Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times 04:20 • Why should we believe that G-d is good in the same sense that we understand what 'good' is? 37:47 • What do you think about the spiritual awakening brought on by the upheaval? 44:06 • How to manage yo

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-... or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponso... THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: Chassidus Applied to Rosh Chodesh Sivan   Lessons from Shavuos in addressing our challenges  The power of unity  This year, with shuls closed, how should we fulfill the Rebbe’s request that all men, women and children go to shul and hear the Ten Commandments on Shavuos?  How do we explain this to our children who were so anticipating going?  Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times  What possible benefit is there in us being deprived of our shuls and schools?  I

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • The secret of growth: Turning liabilities into assets  • Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times  • Chassidus Applied to Bamidbar in addressing our challenges  • How can we build faith and trust in times of crisis? continuation  • Does prayer help?  • Why is there collective punishment in Judaism?  • Why were the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva killed because they did not respect each other?  • Why do we light bonfires on Lag B’Omer? MyLife: Ch

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Lag B’Omer and Behar-Bechukosei in relation to our challenges  • The power of Rashbi in times of crisis  • What we learn from Lag B’Omer about countering a plague  • Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times  • What is the connection between Lag B’omer activities and this special day?  • Who is the founder of Pnimius haTorah?  • Is it sincere to call for achdus on “my terms”?  • How can we be fearless in frightening times?&nb

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at  https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-... or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponso... THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Pesach Sheni and Emor in relation to our challenges  • Programs and resources for these trying and unprecedented times  • Perhaps we should not call the virus by its name?  • After a long day committed to my children, is it wrong for me to be 'happy' that my kids are asleep, and I will have some quiet time?  • Can the current upheaval bring us to discover a new perspective on G-d and Torah?  • Can we learn anything from G-d hiding His Face from Moshe about our need to hid

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Dedicated by Chava and Ephraim Merovitch In honor of Chava's birthday, Rosh Chodesh Iyar And in loving memory of HaRav HaChosid R' Mordechai Tzvi ben Chaim Yosef a"h Greenwald Yahrzeit, 3 Iyar 5778 TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Beis Iyar  • What is the story behind Moshiach’s Sefer Torah -- concluded 50 years ago?  • Lessons from Acharei-Kedoshim  • is there a connection between Iyar and today’s events?  • Does unity make us more immune?  • Revelation: R' Yehuda Leib Hakohen: Tanya is Ketores for all the spiritual epidemics in ikvasa d'meshicha  • Any suggestions on dealing with challenges as we are quarantined together at home?  • More on singles quarantined  • Should we be paying tuition for closed schools amid Covid-19?    • Why doesn’t a name change always protect the individual?  • Why is

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Dedicated in honor of Aharon Eliyahu Ben Leah And in honor of all the great yidden helping their brethren during these tough times. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied and lessons for our time from Post-Pesach, Chof Ches Nissan, Tazria-Metzora and Rosh Chodesh Iyar 01:38 Post Pesach 18:38 • Chof Ches Nissan: It’s up to you 07:14 • Iyar: Acronym of Ani Hashem Rofecho. I, G-d, am Your Healer 19:55 • Tazria-Metzora: Birthing of a new paradigm, through the pain of disease; negah/oneg 23:46 • Are there any parallels between our current corona plague and the plague that struck Rabbi Akiva's students? 32:32 • What is the significance of baking a shlissel challah? 38:07  • Please share some of your experiences and memories of Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s longtime secretary 40:32 • How do we address the guilt of the surviving relatives in this pandemic? 45

SPECIAL CHOL HAMOED PESACH EDITION In this special edition, Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains what we can learn from Moshiach’s Seudah regarding the challenges facing us today  TOPICS: • Can you please give us more Torah/Chassidic perspective on the approach we should be taking in dealing with this unprecedented quarantine?  12:55 • As a single, I find the loneliness unbearable. Please share some advice? 13:35 • How can a lockdown in our homes be seen as an opportunity? 27:16 • What possible benefit can the disruption of our routines offer? 35:08 • Chassidus applied to Acharon Shel Pesach especially in this time 41:50 • Why will Moshiach judge with his power of scent? 49:00 • What is the significance of Moshiach’s seudah on the last day of Pesach? 45:53 • Does the coronavirus have any connection with Moshiach? 46:20 • What does Shabbos HaGadol mean today? 55:32 • With a temporary loss of smell do I make the blessing on spices during havdalah? 01:00:30 • Is it permissible to shave one’s beard during cor

Chassidus applied to Yud Alef Nissan 0:24 What does Shabbos HaGadol mean today?  Yud Gimmel Nissan: Lessons from the Tzemech Tzedek about an epidemic 27:30 How is this night different? Lessons from Pesach 03:40 How can we be making Pesach and fulfilling our other obligations when we should be helping others in this time of need? 46:23 What is the significance of reading the nasi? 24:23 Increasing in Torah study in honor of Yud Alef Nissan 26:06 What is the significance of corona meaning crown? Is there something we can do to repair the sefira of kesser on a spiritual level to help stop the virus? 15:18 How to deal with the challenge of being at home with my kids? 52:46 How about those of us who have no family? 50:02 What is the bare minimum of people needed to do a Seder? 49:32 Which Parsha will we read after the quarantine is over? 51:36 Seder related questions 57:23

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL CORONA EDITION PART IV Dedicated in honor of Eliezer ben Sheina Miriam, for a complete and speedy refuah shleimah In this special edition of MyLife, Rabbi Simon Jacobson teaches a powerful and unique text from the Arizal discussing the nature and spiritual roots of an epidemic, and what can be done to counter it.  TOPICS: • How do we address the paradox of the pandemic happening during these redemptive and miraculous days of Nissan? 0:25 • Should we be doing things differently because of the situation? 4:51 • What lessons do we learn from Pesach about the coronavirus? 19:31 • What should our community learn from this disaster? 23:28 • During these times what is the role of teshuva, which brings healing to the world? 38:24 • Please make some suggestions that we individually and as a community can do to stop the virus? 45:26 • Should we

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS EDITION PART III TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Vayikra and Rosh Chodesh Nissan 01:08:34 • Beis Nissan: 100 Years 23:10 • Letter from Milan: How can we hold on? 16:56 • Where is G-d in all of this? And the Rebbeim?  06:41 • Why is it happening these days – the most joyous and liberating time of the year?  • Who do we turn to today for answers? 24:07 • What is our responsibility when a plague breaks out? 25:37 • How can a chiyuv who is quarantined say kaddish with a minyan? 27:04 • If we follow all the health guidelines and also say Tehillim are we guaranteed not to get the virus? 32:30  • Can matzah heal the virus? 38:06 • How do we balance caution and positivity? 33:40 • How do we think good in face of disease, death and uncertainty? 40:20 • How did our leaders respond to epidemics in the past?  49:00 • Any

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS EDITION TOPICS: • Coronavirus       o How did our ancestors deal with plagues? 03:30       o Has the Rebbe ever made public statements about pandemics and what we can do on a physical and spiritual level to stop them? 16:05       o Are the yeshivas that are closing due to corona virus violating the edict shomer mitzvos lo yeda devar rah? 19:52       o Is it okay to daven at home? 20:55       o Should we add a mitzvah to help stop the pandemic? 17:10       o Should we organize a larger prayer gathering? 18:36       o Can the Coronavirus panic possibly be a sign of Moshiach’s imminent arrival? 27:08  • Chassidus applied

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL PURIM EDITION TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Purim 1:43 • Why do we keep the Fast of Esther today when there is no decree? 08:32 • Why is there ever a mitzvah to get drunk? 12:34 • How could Mordecahi put all the Jews in danger by not bowing to Haman? 21:35 • Are their allusions in midrash that Esther was married to Mordechai? 27:32 • Why is G-d's name not mentioned in Megilas Esther? 30:57 • What did the Jews do wrong by attending Achashverosh's banquet? 36:02 • Why is Esther credited with saving the Jews by marrying Achashverosh? 42:53 • Why are women obligated to hear the megillah if it’s a mitzvas asei she’ha’zman grammah? 40:03 • Why are the three letters, tof, shin and zayin, purposely written in small letter in the Megillah? 45:16 • What is the significance of the four verses of the megillah that we all read aloud? 47:57 • Why did Es

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Tes Adar – 80 years 5:34 • Lessons from Zayin Adar, Tetzaveh and Zochor 12:19 • How do we know that Moshe was born on the 7th of Adar when the Jewish months were not organized until long after Moshe lived? 13:03 • Why are Menashe and Ephraim not included in the shoham stones? 29:52 • How is it just for G-d to command us to kill all Amalekite men, women and children? 21:40 • What does it mean to increase in joy in Adar? 37:32 • What attitude should we have to the coronavirus? 43:07 • Questions on Parshas Terumah: a) Acacia wood. b) Space of the ark 50:38 • Chassidus question: How do we have free will if G-d is recreating the world every second in a specific way? 55:01 • My Life 2019 essays:       o Going Beyond, Mendel Marcus, 21, Mission Viejo, CA 01:04:14      &nb

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Adar and Terumah 0:26 • Is joy inherent or acquired? 01:25 • Why can’t we build the third Temple by ourselves? 11:40 • After witnessing the parting of the sea how could the Jews sin? 17:12 • How do we explain the laws of slavery? 22:07 • Why is mixing meat and milk prohibited when they combine chesed and gevurah? 26:34 • How can people frown on marring a ger (convert) when it’s prohibited to discriminate against geirim?  32:04 • How to deal with discrepancies between Torah and science? 38:08 • Why not study different religious beliefs before determining what is truth? 46:32 • What are the standards for a mechitzah according to the Rebbe? 53:01 • Follow up (episode 291; 296):         o Kasha on Shabbos Shira  58:16       o Secular studies 56:52 •

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Chof Beis Shevat 3:27 • 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Contest, with a new artistic track: The power of initiating and presenting Chassidus in written or artistic form 2:40 • What role does the Rebbetzin play in our lives? 16:12 • What did the Rebbetzin say to the Rebbe that convinced him to officially accept the nesiyus? 18:57 • Did people notice a change in the Rebbe after the Rebbetzin passed away? 39:55 • We know about two of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s daughters, but what ever happened to his 3rd daughter, Shaina, who was married to R’ Mendel Hornstein? 42:04 • Did anyone suggest to the Rebbe the idea of delegation as Yisro suggested to Moshe? 45:33 • Why do we have a custom to eat buckwheat on Shabbos Shira? 51:42 • Follow up (episode 293-295):         o Suicide 54:20  &nb