8:00pm: Should We All Make Aliyah to Israel Now?

The topics in this week’s 331st episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

  • Chassidus Applied to Rosh Chodesh Kislev and Toldos
  • How can we achieve renewal after setbacks?
  • How do you explain Yitzchak and Rivkah giving birth to Esau?
  • How to look at the election results
  • Should we all make aliyah to Israel now, before the next American civil war begins?
  • Does Covid represent a plague-like atmosphere similar to the one in the days of Pharaoh?
  • Is there a similarity between our time and the generation of the flood?
  • Does Torah lean toward socialism or capitalism?
  • What should I do about my online addictions? Follow-up
  • Chassidus question: How do explain the statement that this world is closer to the iggul hagadol then the higher worlds?
  • Life 2020 Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest: 5th Place winners:
    • Essay English: The Super Human Unmasked, Anonymous, 19, Student Beis Chana, Tzfas Seminary
    • Essay Hebrew (men): תרומת החסידות בהתמודדות עם כישלון, The Contribution of Chassidus in Dealing with Failure, מנדל רי’גייר Mendel Raijer, 32, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shliach
    • Essay Hebrew (women): לבחור בחיים, To Choose Life, Ruchi Shpitzer, Educator, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Creative: Mind Control – Controlling our Thoughts According to Chassidus (Video and Music), Nechoma Dina Rosenberg, 20, Teacher’s Assistant, Brooklyn, NY

MyLife: Chassidus Applied is a weekly video webcast candidly answering questions from the public about all life matters and challenges, covering the entire spectrum of the human experience.

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