8:00pm: Gimmel Tammuz – 27 Years: What Is the Significance of This Day? How Could This Happen if a Shepherd Never Forsakes His Flock?
The topics in this week’s 358th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus applied to Gimmel Tammuz – 27 years
o What is the significance of this day?
o How could this event happen if a shepherd never forsakes his flock?
o Are there people who believe that nothing happened?
o What was the Rebbe’s last major teaching?
o Why is this year’s Gimmel Tammuz any different from the past 26 Gimmel Tammuzes?
o Did the Rebbe leave a will?
o What happened to the Rebbe’s property after Gimmel Tammuz?
o What was the Rebbe’s condition between Chof Zayin Adar and Gimmel Tammuz?
o Who decided to take the Rebbe to the hospital after the second stroke?
o Did the Rebbe make any public statements alluding that Gimmel Tammuz would happen, and what he wanted us to do afterward? Was it alluded to in the 28 Nissan sicha?
o Is Yechi HaMelech a salute people give to a leader during his last stages of life?
o Why don’t we designate this day as a fast day to exhibit our sadness?
o Why wasn’t an 8th Rebbe appointed?
- Lessons from Chukas
o What is its connection to Gimmel Tammuz?
o Why was it a sin for Moshe to hit the rock?
o What is the significance of the copper snakes Moshe created to bring healing?
- Chassidus question: How does the red heifer heal from death?
- MyLife 2020 Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest: 26th Place winners:
o Essay English: Loving the World Like We Love Ourselves, Shoshana Gottlieb, 25, Kings Cross Clinic, Receptionist, Sydney, Australia
o Essay Hebrew (men): עצם הנשמה בחיים שלנו, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Student, Nes Tzionah, Israel
o Essay Hebrew (women): שכל, רגש ומה שבינהם, Riki Lerner, Student, Kfar Chabad, Israel
o Creative: Light: The Series (painting), Rivka Einav, 27, Pittsburgh, PA
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