8:00pm: Why Is Yud Tes Kislev Referred to as the Rosh Hashana of Chassidus?
The topics in this week’s 428th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus Applied to Yud Tes Kislev
- 250th yahrzeit of the Maggid of Mezeritch
- Why is Yud Tes Kislev referred to as the Rosh Hashana of Chassidus?
- Why was there a problem with the Alter Rebbe teaching Chassidus?
- Since we begin the new Tanya cycle on Yud Tes Kislev, what is a short synopsis of some of Tanya’s most important lessons?
- Is the Tanya geared toward both men and women?
- Is the idea of two souls a revolutionary innovation of the Tanya? What does it add to the fundamental Torah idea of the yetzer tov and yetzer hara?
- Are the Alter Rebbe’s teachings his own chiddushim, or were they compilations of what he learned from his teachers?
- Is Tanya considered like a “portrait” of the Alter Rebbe?
- Did the Alter Rebbe write and edit all the contents of the Tanya or were some parts added by his students who heard the teachings from him?
- Is there greater emphasis in Chassidus Chabad on bittul than on dveikus?
- What do we learn from the Alter Rebbe’s name Schneur, two lights?
- Did Karl Marx borrow concepts from Tanya for his Communist Manifesto?
- Chassidus Applied to Vayeishev
- Why could Jacob not have calm and peace in his life?
- Why did King David have to come from relationships such as Yehuda and Tamar giving birth to Peretz?
- Follow-up
- Women leading the way to Geulah
- World Cup lessons
- Were the Jews originally dark-skinned?
- What is the source of the Rebbe negating the story about Moshe’s portrait?
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