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8:00pm: Coronavirus – Letter From Milan: How Can We Hold On?

The topics in this week’s 301st episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Coronavirus: Letter From Milan: How Can We Hold On? Where Is G-d in All of This? Why Is It Happening These Days – the Most Joyous and Liberating Time of the Year? Who Do We Turn to Today for Answers? What Is Our Responsibility When a Plague Breaks Out? If We Follow All the Health Guidelines and Also Say Tehillim Are We Guaranteed Not to Get the Virus? How Do We Balance Caution and Positivity? How Did Our Leaders Respond to Epidemics in the Past? How Can Isolation Be Seen in a Positive Light?

Weekly Story: Helping the Jews in Uzbekistan and Georgia

My plan was to publish a booklet and give out in the shuls in Crown Heights another chapter excerpted from the upcoming biography on the Rebbe Rashab. However, being that for the time-being the shuls are not going to be opened this Shabbos, I decided to post it, so this way at the Shabbos Mevorchim farbrengen that will be taking place in everyone’s house, you will have something to discuss about the Rebbe Rashab, whose 100th yahrzeit is this coming Friday, Beis Nissan.

8:00pm: Why Is There Ever a Mitzvah to Get Drunk?

The topics in this week’s 299th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Chassidus Applied to Purim: Why Is There Ever a Mitzvah to Get Drunk? How Could Mordecahi Put All the Jews in Danger by Not Bowing to Haman? Did Vashti Actually Grow a Physical Tail? What Ever Happened to Zeresh? Did the Rebbe Once Say at a Purim Farbrengen That Everyone Who Raises Their Hand Will Become Wealthy? How Can Yom Ha’Kippurim, the Holiest Day of the Year, Be Only Compared to Purim? How Do We Apply Ad D’Lo Yoda?

Weekly Story: “America Iz Nisht Anderish!”

This Thursday, Tes Adar, is eighty years since the arrival of the Frierdiker Rebbe onto the shores of America, and when he made his epoch declaration that America is not different than Europe. Just as Judaism flourished in Europe, so too will Judaism flourish in America. I decided to share with you part of my weekly farbrengen in Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf’s Mesivta of Crown Heights.