8:00pm: ‘Wasting Time’ in Yeshiva vs. Secular Education and a Job
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 125, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: ‘Wasting Time’ in Yeshiva vs. Secular Education and a Job? The 9 Days: Why Do We Grieve Till This Day? Are There Modern Day Miracles? I Still Can’t Master Bitachon!
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If I’m wasting my time anyways in yeshiva, why not go get a secular education and a job?
What risks do I run by pursuing a secular education for self-interest?
This week’s parsha tells the story of the Jews’ travels in the desert and all the miracles done on their behalf – the manna and ananei hakavodto name a couple. What was the purpose and significance of these miracles? Can miracles in general be merely G-d making things easier for us or is there always a deeper significance? And what lesson does this have for us today?
I’ve been grappling with the concept of bitachon my entire life. Even though I’ve come to realize the power and absolute necessity of bitachon in a Jew’s life, it still evades me. It seems there’s a major gap between understanding bitachon and actually living differently because of it. How do I bridge the gap and allow what I know to tangibly affect my attitude?
Rabbi Jacobson will address these and other relevant topics in this week’s 125th episode of MyLife: Chassidus Applied.
Other topics that will be discussed include: the parameters of soulmates, and follow up to previously discussed topics regarding marriage and making ends meet.
Rabbi Jacobson will also review the following essays submitted in last year’s MyLife: Chassidus Applied essay contest: “A Framework for the Fragmented” by Yosef Bronstein, “The Languages Your Souls Speak” by Eitan Guryon and “Personal Development: A Three Step Program” by Oz Zukerman. These and other essays can be read online at meaningfullife.com/essays.
And finally, the Chassidus question of the week: Reconciling Free Will with Pre-Determinism Part II
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 atmeaningfullife.com/mylife.
The topics in this Sunday’s hour-long broadcast will include:
- Chassidus Applied to Matos-Maasei and the Nine Days
- Why does my soulmate have to be Jewish?
- What steps can I take to achieve more bitachon?
- What was the purpose of the miracles in the desert?
- Career Concerns: follow-up
– Secular education
– Marriage and making ends meet - Chassidus Question: Free will and pre-determinism Part II
- MyLife Essays: A Framework for the Fragmented, The Language Your Souls Speak, Personal Development: A Three Step Program
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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 week after week. 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?
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DeClasse' Intellectual
In many case with the Yeshiva system is the more things change the more they remain the same. I had to pull my kids out of a Lubavitcher yeshiva because all they got in the early years was splinters. when I and other parents complained that kids could not read Hebrew, did not understand the Chumash and Rashi and so forth, we were told all the kids had learning disabilities not withstanding professional testers who concluded that kids had the ability to learn, but they were not being taught anything that they could learn, When evidence of issues were brought to New York with knowledge that other Yeshivas(Lubavitcher included as support for that school’s incompetence)–their answer how could you challenge the competence of Rabbis and we know better then anyone else.
Lets us not forget how many of our great youth are seen all day around the city, including in Israel, engaged in narhiskeit when they are studying in the Yeshiva?
I am not knocking the Yeshiva, but far too many issues have been raised and left unresolved that screw our children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!