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8:00pm: Did the Rebbe Ever Advise How to Survive a Nuclear War?

The topics in this week’s 395th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Should We Be Concerned About Rising Prices? How Does Purim Help Us Endure and Ultimately Transform Darkness to Light? Is There Anything to Be Learned Today From the Rebbe Declaring “Hurrah” Purim 5713? Should I Feel Guilty That I Didn’t Drink on Purim? Why Are My Prayers of Hareini Mekabel and Ach Tzadikim Not Bring Peace to Ukraine? Did the Rebbe Ever Advise How to Survive a Nuclear War? How Can I Make Sense of a Good Deed, Which 30 Years Ago Destroyed My Life and Recently Saved My Life?

8:00pm: Should We Be Taking Sides in This War?

The topics in this week’s 394th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Can Purim Teach Us About the War in Ukraine Today? Is It a Sign That Moshiach Is Coming When Nations Are at War? Are There Similarities Between the Jews in Persia and Ukraine? What Did the Rebbe Say in 1983 About Nations in Conflict? How Are We to See These Events in Context of the Rebbe’s Words Over 30 Years Ago About the Bloodless Fall of the Soviet Union? Letter From Kharkiv: How Can We Increase in Joy During the Month of Adar With a War Raging in Our City? Should We Be Taking Sides in This War? Should We Be Pacifying or Fighting the Aggressor? Are Ukrainians Being Punished for Their Crimes?

Weekly Story: Rebuilding

Being that this Shabbos is Tes Adar Sheini, eighty-two years since the Frierdiker Rebbe first came to America to live and rebuild Judaism, I am posting the draft of a chapter from his upcoming biography on his activities to help rebuild the refugees in the DP camps and elsewhere after WWII.

8:00pm: Who Should We Support in a War Between Russia and Ukraine?

The topics in this week’s 393rd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Who Should We Support in a War Between Russia and Ukraine? Does Community Compromise Individuality? Is the Recent New Development Making the Library Manuscripts Available to the Public a Form of “Splurging the Treasures”? Is It Appropriate to Name Someone After an Abuser or a Criminal? By Reading a Book Do We Connect to Its Author as We Do to a Composer Through Listening to His Music? How About Addressing Mental and Other Forms of Abuse?