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. TOPICS • Chassidus Applied to Tazria, HaChodesh and Rosh Chodesh Nissan 8:44 • Lessons from 25 Adar: Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka’s 118th birthday 2:11 • What responsibility do websites have to their readers? 18:27 • What future is there in this challenging day and age for a Yeshiva student without a secular education? How do you explain the Rebbe’s approach in our times? 30:42 • Can a Rebbe make a mistake? 36:32 • Who is the tzaddik yesod olam today? 46:46 • Does yogati u’motzosi actually work? 48:56 • Why can’t I give my son the choice to have a Bris later in life? 53:55 • How can we begin to daven the way Chassidus expects of us? Prayer continued 58:16 • Chassidus question: Does chassidus explain the reason for different hair colors, white hair and baldness? 01:02:48 • My Life 2018 essays:     o Finding G-d in the Empty Spaces, Yehu

• Chassidus Applied to Shemini and Parah 5:16 • Questions about tracht gut vet zayn gut – how far do our thoughts affect our reality? 17:00 • Is there an issue with listening to non-Jewish music with meaningful lyrics? 24:01 • What should we be doing about the situation in Israel? 29:08 • What is my responsibility as a single girl living at home? 34:53 • Should parents show their affection to each other in front of their children? 40:14 • How high should our standards be in seeking a shidduch? Is it too much to ask for a girl who davens 3x daily and learns Chitas? Are there standards that are too high? 47:29 • How can we begin to daven the way Chassidus expects of us  Prayer continued 53:10  • Follow-up (episode 253):     o Megillah reading by women 57:47     o Josephus 01:02:44 • Chassidus question: If thought is the garment for intellect, what is the garment for emotions? 01:04:57 • My Life 2018 essays:     o G-d’s Dream, Akiva Greenbaum,

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 Purim 0:15 • May women read the Megillah for other women? 16:55 • Why was I born with talents if I am seemingly not allowed to develop and express them? 20:38 • What is the Rebbe’s opinion on Chiropractic medicine? 28:13 • What is our attitude to Josephus (Yosifun)? 33:02 • How can we begin to daven the way Chassidus expects of us? Prayer continued 40:42 • Follow-up (episodes 250-251):     o MicDrop 46:56     o HaMapil 53:51     o Hypnosis 56:46 • Chassidus question: Why the need for Seder Histalshilus? 58:44 • My Life 2018 essays:     o Learning How to Truly Forgive in your Heart, Malky Katz, 24, Brooklyn, NY  01:07:45     o For Example…, Uriel Segel, 36, Jerusalem, Israel 01:09:25     o The Chal

• Chassidus Applied to Vayikra and Zachor 4:04 • Lessons from 9 Adar II – 79 years since the Frierdiker Rebbe’s arrival to America 14:04 • What should I do about my doubts in G-d? 23:46 • Why do we need to ask G-d for our needs in prayer – doesn’t G-d know what we need? 28:40 • How can we begin to daven the way Chassidus expects of us? 34:25 Prayer continued • How can we as a couple overcome our obstacles? Can we expect a brighter future? 42:30 • Should one write BS”D or B"H on an email or a computer document? 45:59 • Follow-up (episodes 250-251):     o What is the Rebbe’s approach to Anti-Semitism? 50:44     o Why did G-d make the most sacred human organ also the one used for expelling waste? 56:30 • Chassidus question: What is the kelipah of Amalek in our personal lives? And how do we reconcile the two statements that Amalek is daas of kelipah and that there is no daas in sitra achra? 59:55 • My Life 2018 essays:     o Social Belonging and Individu

TOPICS • Chassidus Applied to 27 Adar 0:09 • Lessons from Chodesh Adar II and Pekudei 9:13 • If everything that happens is orchestrated from above, how much free choice do we really have?  15:45 • What Torah concepts can we transmit to non-Jews? How far can we go? 18:50 • How do we address the issue of anti-Semitic attacks and safety? 23:12 • Since G-d created the human body with such amazing design why did he allow it to be so fragile? 27:29 • Should we be talking with our children about puberty? 36:11 • What is the meaning of the verse “also the prophets and the spirit of contamination I will remove from the earth”? 42:34 • Follow-up (episode 250): MicDrop 44:55 • Chassidus question: Will the roles of women and men change in the times of Moshiach when feminine energy will be greater than male energy? 59:26 My Life 2018 essays: I Am My Own Greatest Enemy: Shedding Chassidic Light on Destructive Behaviors, Countess Rivka Elkaim, 67, United States; You ARE your Struggles, Sara Malka Fox, 19, Pretoria, Sou

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 Vayakhel, Shabbos Mevarchim Adar II and Shekalim 2:53 • Can we speak after saying the bedtime hamapil prayer? 13:26 • Shidduchim: What should I do when nothing seems to work? 19:18 • What should our attitude be to the recent MicDrop issue? 23:32 • How do I know if I am making the right choice?  38:57 • Is one allowed to curse another person? 44:15 • Follow-up:     o Walking past a church (episode 249) 48:47     o Natural Approach to Dealing with Depression (episode 243) 50:09     o Is it my yetzer hara or my dysfunctional childhood? (episode 155) 51:32 • Chassidus question: What does the Tanya mean by saying that a soul is literally a “piece of G-d”? And how do you explain that the soul and G-d are “two half images”? 53:44 • My Life 2018 essays:  &nbs

• Chassidus Applied to Purim Katan and Ki Tisa 1:44 • Is obesity overblown? 11:55 • Is it appropriate to refer to a meshichist rabbinic figure by a rabbinic title? 18:49 • What is the difference between the Jewish concept of bitachon and the law of attraction? 23:23 • Is there any halacha or minhag about not walking past a church? 25:46 • How should a Jew react to the separation of families? 28:33 • Follow-up:     o Boundaries for males teaching girls (episode 248) 37:32     o Hypnosis (episode 248) 45:28     o Bible Unauthorized (episode 247) 50:16     o Abortion (episode 247) 48:10     o Shaming abusers (episodes 202-204) 51:44 • Chassidus question: How does Chassidus explain the verse “no man can see me and live”? 01:00:24 • My Life 2018 essays:      o The Avodah of Davening in Light of Chassidus, Esther Rochel Elkaim, 31, USA 01:09:30     o Fear, Anxiety and Pres

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 Zayin Adar I and Tetzaveh 0:28 • What is going on with all the recent tragedies? 13:59 • Should I be concerned over an ominous chain letter I received? 22:52 • Are their guidelines for using hypnosis to treat mental health? 26:58 • Will we be able to have children in the world to come? 30:17 • When a yeshiva sends students as shluchim to other yeshivos, is it considered as if the Rebbe is sending them, or as a faculty decision (which could be mistaken)? 33:36 • What boundaries should be kept when single girls have male teachers? 38:24 • Follow-up:     o Mental health referrals (episodes 243-244) 45:08     o Nursing (episode 245) 46:32     o Can anyone publish the Rebbe’s talks? (episodes 246-247) 48:16     o Not listening to the Rebbe (episo

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 I and Terumah 0:38 • Are there lessons from the Rebbe about the recent bitter cold? 9:20 • How do you explain Chassidim violating the Rebbe’s limit on drinking? 13:26 • How do we balance parental influences with finding our own path? 19:15 • Why in our prayers is mention made only of males, and not females? 26:40 • What can be done to preserve a marriage in which a spouse suffers from a personality disorder? 32:19 • Based on the Rebbe's emphasis on teaching the world about sheva mitzvos Bnei Noach, do Jews have an obligation to bring up the prohibition of abortion in our politically charged climate? 39:01 • What is the story with the book called The Bible Unauthorized by A.H. Moose? Is it legitimate? 46:11 • Follow-up:     o Who owns the Rebbe’s words and images? (episode 246) 55:57   

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 22 Shevat and Mishpatim 0:14 • Please explain the mitzvos of slavery in this week’s Torah portion. How could the Torah sanction slavery? What eternal relevance does it have? 10:07 • How do I choose between personal spiritual growth and commitment to home and family? 23:35 • What do the Rebbeim say about a fire, G-d forbid? 33:38 • Are the Rebbe’s words and images copyrighted? 41:24 • Did people understand the Rebbe’s words during Farbrengens? 53:51 • How to deal with paraphilia? 59:58 • Chassidus question: Explain the difference between the terms the Torah uses for mitzvos:  mishpatim, eidus and chukim? 01:05:26 • My Life 2018 essays:      o A New Perspective on the Inexplicable Challenges of Our Times, Yoel Baron, 35, Israel 01:12:51     o Dealing with Sadness, Dori Gal

• Chassidus Applied to Tu B’Shevat and Yisro 0:31 • How do you answer this question: If G-d gave the Torah today, would it be very different than the one given 3300 years ago to primitive people? 13:05 • Does a Torah abiding Jew need therapy? 20:31 • How do we even begin relating to a G-d that seems so beyond us? 29:13 • How should we be promoting the Seven Noachide laws? 36:54 • After a major life crisis, how do you begin living again? 43:15 • Explain a seeming contradiction whether the Holocaust was a punishment for Jewish sins. 48:58 • Follow-up (episodes 242):     o Nursing 56:18     o Singing 56:18 • Chassidus question How does Chassidus explain why Mattan Torah at Sinai happened only after Yisro acknowledged G-d, and what is its application to life today? 58:43 • My Life 2018 essays:     o Escape Consumerism Before IT Consumes YOU, Liad Braude, 27, Jerusalem, Israel 01:02:00     o The Right Balance between Matter and Spirit,

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 Yud Shevat and chapter 9 of Basi L’Gani 0:09 • Chassidus question: What lessons do we learn from chapter 9, especially in connection with it being the beginning of the 70th Year of the Rebbe’s leadership? 5:01 • Why does Abraham get credit for discovering and promoting one G-d? 24:17 • I’m having difficulties coping with the tragedies and hardships in my life. Can you give me some inspiration and direction? 27:01 • There is probably no more than one Benoni (according to Tanya) for every 100 million people on earth. How could G-d create a world with expectations that are clearly not attainable? 33:25 • Response to request for mental health specialist references 38:48 • Is The Emotion Code in line with Judaism and Chassidus? 42:56 • Follow-up (episodes 241-242):     o Teenagers drowning 45:43  &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 Shevat and Parshas Bo 0:17 • How should we react to the recent Mezuzah controversy? 21:45 • Is there an intrinsic value to keeping Chassidus in its pristine state and not trying to apply it to specific situations? 37:28 • What did the Rebbe mean by calling someone a “plain-clothed chassid”? 43:05 • Mazel: Do Jewish people have luck? 46:30 • Why is 770 not kept neater? 49:56 • Request: References for mental health specialists  54:31 • Follow-up (episodes 241-242):     o What defines a Chabad Chassid? 56:32     o Government intervention in our schools 57:34 • Chassidus question: Is G-d inside or outside of us? 59:29 • My Life 2018 essays:     o The Value of Our Constant Struggles, Sara Schwartz, 32, Granada Hills, CA; 01:05:51     o Trans

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 24 Teves and Parshas Vaeirah 7:18 • What do you say to a teenage girl who refuses to accept tznius guidelines because she finds it degrading to cover yourself in order not to be objectified? 18:11 • What defines a Chabad Chosid? 26:54 • Is it wrong to listen to and enjoy classical music? 36:59 • J-screen: Are we obligated as parents? 38:33 • Did the Rebbe say anything about natural vs. bottle feeding a baby? 46:03 • Follow-up (episodes 238; 241)     o Revealing one’s past in shidduchim 49:31     o Fitbit 53:34     o Government trying to change our education system 54:18     o Singing in restroom 56:46     o Social justice 57:32 • Chassidus question: Explain the different ways we “describe” Atzmus 01:00:40 • My Life 2018 e

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 20 Teves and Parshas Shemos 8:11 • How can we understand and want to emulate Yaakov Avinu’s troubling life? 19:29 • How would the Rebbe approach the current issue of government trying to change our education system? 30:46 • Is it appropriate to sing niggunim in the restroom? 36:47 • Is it proper for a chosid to use a fitbit to track his exercise accomplishments? 40:28 • Questions about G-d 43:54 • Follow-up (episodes 238-239):     o Empowering women 50:31   • Chassidus question: Is G-d’s “desire” (nisaveh) to have a home in the lowest of worlds rooted in Atzmus or in giluiim? 01:01:26 • My Life 2018 essays:     o You Are A Gift, Gitel Chana Levin, 62, New Haven, CT 01:06:22     o Live Every Moment Anew, Yosef Yizchak Shlome Pevzner, 20, Beitar Illit,

• Chassidus Applied to 10 Teves and Parshas Vayechi 0:21 • Why has Chalukas haShas not gained traction in Chabad? 24:04 • What aspect of a Jewish mother determines the Jewishness of her child – conceiving, carrying or both? 33:22 • Should we insist that our 8-year-old son go to Shul on Shabbos? 39:50 • What should be our goals when we go on mivtzoim? 50:28 • How should we speak to non-Jews about sheva mitzvos? 45:29 • Follow-up (episodes 238-239): o Empowering women 55:52 o Buying a car 01:03:01 • Chassidus question: How does machsoveh (thought) relate to midos? 01:04:09 • My Life 2018 essays: o Overcoming Challenges, Ga’m Zu l’Tova, Emunas Hashem and Bitachon, Mindle Lerner, 18, Woodmere, NY 01:10:15 o The Rebbe’s Leadership after Gimmel Tammuz, Nechama Dina Turk, 44, Chicago, IL 01:12:10 o To Understand A Convert, Aliza Elisheva Garvin, 26, Brooklyn, NY 01:13:45

TOPICS • Chassidus Applied to Zos Chanukah and Parshas Vayigash 0:17 • Are we doing all we can to empower women today? 22:57 • How does someone know what he’s capable of? 36:19 • If one’s “containers” are not aligned with their spiritual “light” (due to a chemical imbalance, as an example), can the container be trained to regulate and adjust itself to its spiritual capacity? 42:45 • Is there a difference how one would treat depression in a Jew and in a non-Jew? 47:44 • What can I do about same gender attraction? 51:07 • Follow-up (episode 235): Homosexuality 55:49 • Chassidus question: What can we learn from Yosef’s mistake by relying on the butler to mention him to Pharaoh, instead of just trusting Hashem? Aren’t we supposed to make a vessel for G-d’s blessings? 57:34 • My Life 2018 essays: o Peripheral or Primary: Two Paradigms for Life, Yossi Grossbaum, 38, Folsom, CA 01:05:18 o Attaining Inner Happiness, Sara Chyrek, 16, Brooklyn, NY 01:07:02 o Unknown Identity Syndrome, Mendel Brackman, 20, Westm

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 Chanukah and Parshas Miketz 0:11 • What does Chassidus teach us about darkness and its illumination? 12:12 • Is Judaism democratic? What is the Torah view on forced observance? 26:19 • Am I still a Lubavitcher if I learn Daf Yomi? 37:02 • Why is Taharas HaMishpacha so obsessed with details? 47:02 • What kind of car should a Chassid drive? 54:07 • Follow-up (episodes 235-237): o Woman rabbi 1:00:00 o What can we do to help speed up Moshiach’s coming? 58:54 • Chassidus question: How do we explain the existence of evil in face of an omnipresent good G-d? 01:02:05 • My Life 2018 essays: o The Choice of Chassidus, Yehuda Simcha Tanenbaum, 20, Baltimore, MD; 01:09:19 o Motivation = The Power of the Essence, Esther Stern, 26, Brooklyn, NY 01:10:27 o Who is G-d? Eli Soble, 43, Brooklyn, NY 01:12:29

• Chassidus Applied to the 19th of Kislev and Vayeishev 0:18 • What can we do to help speed up Moshiach’s coming? 21:02 • What did the Rebbe mean when he said that avodas habirurim has concluded? 30:41 • Will we be able to converse with G-d after Moshiach comes? 37:22 • After Moshiach comes how will understand all the Torah verses and references that address a pre-Moshiach golus world? 39:46 • Why don’t revealed miracles happen today as they did in earlier generations? 49:46 • Follow-up (episodes 234-236): o How much to reveal about a potential shidduch? 54:53 • Chassidus question: How does Chassidus explain the dislocation of Jacob’s hip socket and what is its practical application to our lives? 01:03:10 • My Life 2018 essays: o The Journey Out of Depression, Leah Piekarski, 18, Brooklyn, NY 01:11:34 o The Answer Within, Shmulik Fogelman, 25, Worcester, MA 01:12:38 o Identity-Driven Circumstances, Shmuel Shuchat, 32. Montreal, Canada 01:13:25

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 • Lessons from the 10th of Kislev and Vayishlach 1:07 • Chassidus Applied to the 90th anniversary of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin on Yud Daled Kislev 15:20 • What are the most vital things to look for in a potential shidduch? 28:36 • What was the Rebbe's view on dealing with the Arabs? 36:38 • Am I allowed to attend an Orthodox shul with a female rabbi? 43:38 • Follow-up (episodes 234-235): o Pittsburgh massacre 47:17 o How much to reveal about a potential shidduch? 56:08 o Conservative synagogue 55:02 Chassidus question: What does Chassidus add to the understanding of marriage? 01:01:32 • My Life 2018 essays: o The Power of Speech and Emotion, Helena Peiser, 20, Memphis, TN 01:07:04 o Precious Gems, Chaya Mushka Litzman, 16, Spring Valley, NY 01:08:40 o Beyond the Thought to Instinct, F. Chedva Shagalov, 19, Brooklyn, NY 01