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8:00pm: Is There Spiritual Significance to the Landing on Mars and the General Exploration of Space?

The topics in this week’s 345th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Is There Spiritual Significance to the Landing on Mars and the General Exploration of Space? What Is the Significance of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s Arrival to the “Lower Hemisphere? Why Would G-d Create Amalek as Evil People and Then Command Us to Obliterate Them? Why Are Pesachia and Hadassah Called by Their Secular Persian Names, Mordechai and Esther? Did Haman Work as a Barber Before Getting a Job in Achashverosh’s Court? Why Is There a Custom to Wear Masks on Purim?

Weekly Story: No Doubts!!

This week is parshas zochor, which is a mitzvah not only to remember what Amalek did to our ancestors when they finally left the bondage of Mitzrayim (Egypt), but more importantly to eradicate the Amaleki perspective from within us. With that in mind, I will now relate the weekly story, (which by Divine Providence, I heard just this week).

8:00pm: How Are We to Understand the Idea of Jews as the “Chosen People”?

The topics in this week’s 344th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: How Are We to Understand the Idea of Jews as the “Chosen People”? What Can We Do to Eradicate Apathy and Doubts? How Does Chassidus View the Relationship Between Spiritual/Emotional Health and Physical Health? Does Ambition Have a Purpose According to Chassidus? What Is the Best Way to Daven That Hashem Puts You in the Right Place at the Right Time to Meet Your Bashert? What Topics in Chassidus Can I Share With Non-Jews? What Is Tanya’s Realistic Expectation of Us?

Weekly Story: Matza for Russia

Boruch Hashem the response to the biography of the Rebbe Rashab is extremely positive. As noted, I have begun researching and writing about the life of the Frierdiker Rebbe. This week I am posting a chapter in his life that is not well-known. (It is primarily based on his letters in vol. 16, of his Igros Kodesh). Obviously, I hope to find out more details of this endeavor and all of his communal work.