8:00pm: What Benefit is There In Saying the Hebrew Words of Davening if We Don’t Know What They Mean?
The topics in this week’s 419th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus Applied to Selichos
- What is selichos?
- Why is the first selichos recited at night?
- Chassidus Applied to Rosh Hashana
- Has anyone made a nice acronym yet for the new year 5783, tof shin pei gimmel?
- What is the significance of eating certain foods at certain times?
- What benefit do we achieve by saying the Hebrew words of davening in the siddur if we don’t know what they mean?
- Do some people have more power to bless others?
- Is it advantageous to go to the top of a mountain to daven because it’s closer to the heavens?
- What are your thoughts about a chabadnik going to Uman?
- What can I do to stop my husband from trying something strange this Rosh Hashana to bring Moshiach?
- Why 60 days and not 40?
- Is there special creative energy available every year on the 25th of Elul, when the world was created?
- What can a couple struggling with infertility do differently in the month of Elul to have the “king in the field” grant them a child?
- Can you give an example of something you actually changed in your life?
- Chai Elul: What does it mean that Achiye Hashiloni taught the Baal Shem Tov?
- Apologizing for having negative feelings
- Can we test G-d with tzedakah and expect reward?
- Are we guaranteed to get what we want when we give tzedakah?
- Are we allowed to attend the Queen’s funeral in order to be respectful to this country?
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