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8:00pm: What should I say to a neighbor pressuring me to put up a BLM sign on my front lawn?

The topics in this week’s 317th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Should I Say to a Neighbor Pressuring Me to Put up a BLM Sign on My Front Lawn? What Are the Two Secrets to Growing Through Challenges? Chassidus Applied to the Three Weeks and Matos-Massei; What Can We Do When We Find Ourselves in Dire Straits? Should We Be Praying Also for Non-Jews During This Pandemic? Why Are There Such Brutal Punishments in the Torah? in Light of Pinchas’s Zealotry, How Do We Look at Antinomianism?

Weekly Story: The Relevance of a Known Story

While everyone enjoys hearing something new, and in general I try not to recycle stories that have already been publicized, that is not entirely the correct perspective.  During farbrengens, mashpi’im often retell the same story to emphasize the importance of the message. Certain concepts have to become part and parcel of our mindset and mashpiim repeat a thought in order that it be ingrained in our DNA.