8:00pm: Is It Appropriate to Buy a Lottery Ticket or Is It a Form of Gambling?
The topics in this week’s 423rd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus Applied to Vayeira
- How could Abraham turn away from G-d to greet guests?
- Can you love G-d if you don’t love people?
- What can we do today to merit that Hashem personally reveal Himself to us?
- If Malkizedek was wrong for blessing Abraham before blessing G-d, why was Abraham not punished for turning away from G-d to greet guests?
- Why was Abaraham harsh with his guests to entice them to thank G-d?
- Why did Abraham beseech G-d to save the evil criminals from Sodom?
- Why was G-d upset at Sarah for laughing when she was informed that she would have a baby at age 90?
- Do the Arabs hate us because their ancestor Ishmael was kicked out of his home by Sarah and Abraham?
- Why Did Abraham not defy G-d at the Akeidah, based on the law that a son is not supposed to listen to his father telling him to murder?
- Follow-up
- If we finished the work of elevating sparks, why are we allowed to eat meat?
- Should we be honoring the Jewish husband of the non-Jewish vice president with lighting the menorah?
- How to overcome a challenge much bigger than we can cope with, without falling into despair?
- Why not say Hallel every day?
- Fertility
- Is it appropriate to buy a lottery ticket?
- Why is it not a form of gambling?
- Does buying more than one ticket indicate a lack of faith?
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