8:00pm: MyLife Essay Winners; Interpreting Dreams; Non-Lubavitch Customs; Daily Learning Challenges

This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 61, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: MyLife Essay Winners; Interpreting Dreams; Non-Lubavitch Customs; Daily Learning Challenges.

After much anticipation – two months of challenging work, hundreds of submissions, almost a million words written, and many hours of evaluation – Rabbi Simon Jacobson will announce the winners of the first ever MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay Contest during Sunday’s live broadcast. Find out who will be the recipient of the $10K first prize.

What does Chassidus say about interpreting dreams? If we have repeated bad dreams about a person, should we warn them? Why do we annul bad dreams during birkat kohanim?

“I know there are many nice prayers that are not said according to Chabad custom. For example Perek HaShira, Chad Gadya and other piyutimafter the Passover Seder, Akdomos on Shavuot, Ani Maamin, tefilos before making challah, after Shabbos candles, for livelihood or children, etc. What attitude should a Lubavitcher have to these prayers?” In the same vein, is it appropriate to receive blessings from other tzadikim? Should we learn other Chassidus than Chabad? Is there an issue with singing non-Chabad Shabbos zemiros and niggunim? What about becoming a Rabbi at a non-Chabad shul?

Other topics to be addressed in this week’s episode include: Challenges with daily learning –whether it be finding the time, deciding what to learn, or lack in comprehending daily portions. Follow-up on modern-day agunot.

This hour-long dose of insights is meant to inform, inspire and empower us by applying the teachings of Chassidus to help us face practical and emotional challenges and difficulties in our personal lives and relationships. To have your question addressed, please submit it atwww.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive.

The topics in this Sunday’s hour-long broadcast will include:

  • Announcing MyLife Essay Contest winners
  • Chassidus Applied: Beis Nissan and Pre-Passover
  • Lubavitcher attitude to non-Lubavitch activities
  • Becoming a Rabbi at non-Chabad shul
  • Agunah follow-up
  • Should we interpret dreams?
  • Learning challenges in daily study portions

MyLife: Chassidus Applied addresses questions that many people are afraid to ask and others are afraid to answer. When asked about the sensitive topics he has been addressing, Rabbi Simon Jacobson commented, “I understand that the stakes are high, but the silence and lack of clarity on matters plaguing the community can no longer go unaddressed. The stakes of not providing answers are even higher.”

The on-going series has provoked a significant reaction from the community, with thousands of people viewing each live broadcast and hundreds of questions pouring in. At the root of every question and personal challenge tackled by the series is the overarching question: Does Judaism have the answers to my personal dilemmas?

In inimitable “Jacobson-fashion”, the broadcast answers people’s questions in simple, clear language while being heavily sourced. Each episode is jam-packed with eye-opening advice from the Rebbeim, gleaned from uncovering surprising gems in their letters, sichos and maamorim that address our personal issues with disarming relevance. Simultaneously, Rabbi Jacobson is able to crystallize a concept quickly, succinctly, and poignantly for any level of listener.

All episodes are immediately available for viewing in the MLC’s archive and can be downloaded as MP3’s for listening on the go.

Questions may be submitted anonymously at www.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive.

5 Comments

  • Henya

    Can you post the essay entitled The Chassidic Solution to Overeating?

    Thanks…

  • Its difficult to believe

    Until the names of the judges throughout the process is told to us. Who decided at the first stage to eliminate the first few hundred and what was thwir criteria?

  • yofutzu mainoisaicho

    the point of the contest was for everyone to learn Chassidus and chassidus be spread out.
    I suggest all winning contests and specially mentioned be proudly displayed on Rabbi Jacobson’s web site for all too see and learn from.

  • i hope this contest was fair

    as the official stated criteria was to base an essay on a specific chassidis source that could help people with specific issues in a specific methodology. And so said Rabbi Jacobson himself on the lectures.
    if peope dont get to see the essays and know exactly who judged what at each stage what are people supposed to conclude of the whole contest if left in the dark?

  • Citizen Berel

    Essays? What essays? Who wants to see essays? The only thing that interests me in the $10,000 essay contest are the WINNERS!!!!

    The winners are mentioned somewhere in the video. It says so right here.