2019 MyLife: Essay Contest Winners

The winners of this year’s MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay Contest were announced live during the special Yud Alef Nissan Edition of the MyLife: Chassidus Applied Webcast. In the extended article is a full list of all the winners, with links to their essays.

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Rabbi Yossi and Suri Marazov Shluchim in Ulyanovsk, Russia, spent twelve years bringing the spark of Judaism alight in the city. Suddenly, after all these the years, they were deported back to the United States. Watch their Journey through those years.

8:00pm: Announcing the Winners of the MyLife Essay Contest 2019

The topics in this week’s 257th episode of the highly acclaimed popular MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Announcing the Winners of the MyLife Essay Contest 2019! Chassidus Applied to Yud Alef Nissan, Yud Gimmel Nissan and Pesach; Why Does One Forfeit Their Share in the World-To-Come for Not Respecting Chol Hamoed? Background on the Rebbe’s Mivtza Sefer Torah; Internet Addictions; How to Explain Koros and That Some People Will Be Not Have a Share in the Olam Habo When Every Soul Is Immortal?

Mi Li, A Single by Chaim Dovid Berson

A new upbeat and energetic song to the famous words of Hillel the elder in Pirkei Avot has been released by Chaim Dovid Berson. If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am “I”? And if not now, when?

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Following the spread of measles to the Detroit Jewish community, a massive push was made to stem the tide of the virus, this time successfully. Listen as one of the people infected tells you about experience, and sheds light on why it is imperative to get vaccinated.

JEM: Three Pioneers

When members and supporters of the JEM Foundation from around the world gathered in New York City for the Foundation’s International Gala, they were treated to a number of special presentations. This one, “three Pioneers,” speaks on the start of the Farbrengen Broadcast.

JEM: The Name is the Parents’ Decision

The “V’eleh Shemos – Menachem Mendel” initiative is a worldwide project currently aiming to collect all those named Menachem Mendel after the Rebbe, and feature them in a special album. In conjunction, JEMCentral presents a first hand story regarding naming a child after the Rebbe.

JLI: Don’t Resist Resistance

JLI has released another educational video in the Chassidic Gems Series. In it, Rabbi Yossi Jacobson discussed the concept of How a person knows what his unique mission is, and the answer can be found in these two words.