8:00pm: How to Experience True and Lasting Renewal?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 35, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a special Rosh Hashanah edition, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topic: How can one experience true and lasting renewal?
As we quickly approach Rosh Hashana, reciting slichos daily, we dedicate this episode to answering, “How does a chosid prepare for Rosh Hashana?”
“Hi Rabbi Jacobson, what is the proper way to approach Rosh Hashana? The seriousness of the days of awe intimidates me to the point that it has turned me off. Are we really supposed to experience these glorious days by cowering in fear? What is that the Chassidishe way of celebrating Rosh Hashana? How can I infuse this New Year with passion and vitality?”
Other questions that will be answered in this special episode are: Year after year nothing seems to change in our lives. How can Rosh Hashana be experienced as personally relevant, bringing us personal growth and change, rather than a thing we just do by rote? Does this time of year have to be riddled with guilt and shame? How can we approach these days in a more mature way than as a negotiation trying to “make a deal” with G-d? Kings are from a bygone era. How can I relate to all the references in the prayers to the concept of “crowning the king” and “malchus”? How can Idaven meaningfully for such a long period of time? In what way are we actually renewed on Rosh Hashana?
Tune in this Sunday night for the next episode of MyLife: Chassidus Applied. This hour-long dose of insight 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 www.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive.
The topics in this Sunday’s hour-long broadcast will include:
- Why is Rosh Hashana such a significant day?
- How can it change my life?
- How does a Chosid prepare for Rosh Hashana?
- Can Rosh Hashana bring us true personal growth?
- How to make Rosh Hashana relevant
- Fundamental human principles taught to us by the New Year
- How to daven passionately
- Are we actually renewed on Rosh Hashana?
- How to relate to “crowning” G-d as King?
- Overcoming jealousy
MyLife: Chassidus Applied addresses questions that many people are afraid to ask and others are afraid to answer. When asked about the sensitive topics he has been addressing, Rabbi Simon Jacobson commented, “I understand that the stakes are high, but the silence and lack of clarity on matters plaguing the community can no longer go unaddressed. The stakes of not providing answers are even higher.”
The on-going series has provoked a significant reaction from the community, with thousands of people viewing each live broadcast and hundreds of questions pouring in. At the root of every question and personal challenge tackled by the series is the overarching question: Does Judaism have the answers to my personal dilemmas?
In inimitable “Jacobson-fashion”, the broadcast answers people’s questions in simple, clear language while being heavily sourced. Each episode is jam-packed with eye-opening advice from the Rebbeim, gleaned from uncovering surprising gems in their letters, sichos and maamorim that address our personal issues with disarming relevance. Simultaneously, Rabbi Jacobson is able to crystallize a concept quickly, succinctly, and poignantly for any level of listener.
All episodes are immediately available for viewing in the MLC’s archive and can be downloaded as MP3’s for listening on the go.
Questions may be submitted anonymously at www.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive.
