8:00pm: Doesn’t Fasting Distract Us From Being Introspective?
The topics in this week’s 420th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
Chassidus Applied to Yom Kippur
- Why is this time of year so special?
- What opportunities does it offer us?
- What is the building of Malchus during the Ten Days of Teshuva?
- Should we fear Yom Kippur?
- As non-practicing Jews, what is the best way for us to participate in Yom Kippur?
- What does the word holy mean?
- Why did the High Priest pronounce the holy Tetragrammaton on Yom Kippur, and we are not allowed to do so?
- Why do kohanim wear special garments in the Temple?
- How is the Seder Avodah relevant to us today?
- How do the five prayers correspond to the five parts of the soul?
- Why do we go to the mikveh Erev Yom Kippur?
- Why do we have fast days when we are not supposed to punish our bodies?
- Isn’t fasting distracting and counterproductive to being reflective and introspective?
- How are we so sure that we will be completely forgiven?
- Do we have a nuclear option in our davening that is so strong it guarantees Hashem will forgive us on Yom Kippur?
- What is the connection between Yom HaKippurim and Purim?
- Why do we say Kol Nidrei after we already did hatoras nedarim Erev Rosh Hashana?
- If regular laymen have the power to form a court for hatoras nedarim, why can’t they form a court and rule that Moshiach must come immediately?
- Why do we need Yom Kippur if we already fooled the Satan before Rosh Hashana?
- Why do we say Baruch Shem out loud on Yom Kippur?
- If we say some prayers in Aramaic so that the prosecuting angels, who don’t understand Aramaic, can’t interfere, why aren’t all prayers in Aramaic?
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