8:00pm: When Will the Attacks in Israel Ever End?

The topics in this week’s 413th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

  • Chassidus Applied to Tisha B’Av nidche
    • What is the significance of Tisha B’Av being pushed off a day due to Shabbos?
    • How do we reconcile the negative and positive elements in sadness?
    • If the energy of a day is recreated each year on that day, why do we fast on the next day?
    • Why do we need the Holy Temple when we draw down the Divine through our prayers?
    • Why is the Beis Hamikdash such a central component of the Geulah? 
    • Why do we assume that life with the Third Temple will be better than it was during the first two Temples?
    • After all the work that great men and women did over the generations, how can our sages say that a generation that didn’t rebuild the temple is considered as if it destroyed it?
    • What is the meaning of the verse Tzion b’mishpat t’podeh v’shaveha b’tzedaka?
    • How exactly does learning about the Beis Hamikdash cause it to be recreated?
  • When will the attacks in Israel ever end?
  • How to avoid giving up after many disappointments?
  • Chassidus Applied to 15 Av and Nachamu
    • Why is the 15th of Av such a great holiday? 
    • If the Talmud says to diminish in joy when Av enters, why do we celebrate on the 15th of Av?
    • What is the significance of Shabbos Nachamu?
  • What do we do when our rabbis and role models let us down?

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