Videos

The topics in this week’s 261st episode of the highly acclaimed popular MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Does Chassidus Ever Expect Us to Sleep Less Than Is Normally Required? Is There a Healthy Need for Ego? As an Orthodox Jew Teaching in a Secular School, How Do I Navigate Between Acceptance of All Students, and Normalizing Behavior Forbidden by Torah? Can a Sociopath Do Teshuva? Are There Any Situations When We Can Shake Hands with Someone from the Opposite Gender? Please Explain the Statement That for Certain Souls, like Rashbi, the Temple Was Never Destroyed.

Singer Mendy J has released “Moshiach Yavo,” a popular song, in acapella. The music video shows some of the amazing miracle that have happened in the last century, both within the wider public and the Jewish world. Mendy performs the song alongside his brother Simi Jacobson.

“Habeit Na,” an acapella song by Netanel Menat and the Malchus Choir describes the yearning of the Jewish people, who look up at the Father in heaven, asking, praying and begging, “הבט נא, רחם נא, על עמך מהרה”

A Myanmar airplane pilot manages to land without his plane’s front wheels when they failed to deploy on landing. The pilot is being hailed a hero for his skill, and saving the lives of the passengers and crew.

The topics in this week’s 260th episode of the highly acclaimed popular MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Poway Follow-Up; Chassidus Applied to Emor; Is Ahavas Yisroel Achieved by Ignoring Our Differences? Am I Allowed to Shave or Trim My Beard or Moustache? Are Long Wigs an Issue? What is the Concept of Our Counting 49 Days of the Omer, Preparing Us to Then Receive, as a Gift from Above, the 50th Day, Which Is Beyond Our Capacity to Reach on Our Own?

What can the ancient lessons teach us about the internet age? Despite the toxicity the world wide web spews, Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone extols the potential of the internet at an official TED event, and challenges us to spread positivity and light.