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8:00pm: How Should We React to the Catastrophic Building Collapse in South Florida?

The topics in this week’s 360th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: 

  • How should we react to the catastrophic building collapse in South Florida?
  • With the recent structural disasters in Meron (in Iyar), Stolin (in Sivan) and now in Surfside (in Tammuz), what are we to think? 
  • Chassidus applied to 17 Tammuz
    • What is the significance of this day?
    • Why do we still fast for an event that happened 2,000 years ago, but we don’t have a fast day for the holocaust that was less than a hundred years ago?
    • What can we learn from the breaching of the Jerusalem walls?
  • Lessons from Pinchas
    • Does Pinchas killing Zimri without due process leave room for antinomianism?
    • Why is Pinchas rewarded for zealotry? Isn’t that setting a precedent for inspiring zealots to commit crimes?
    • Why were there no laws in the Torah protecting women and their rights to inheritance until the daughters of Tzelaphchad spoke up and complained?
    • Why were the daughters of Tzelaphchad not punished for complaining? 
  • Complaining to G-d
    • Why was G-d so harsh with us when we complained in the wilderness?
    • Is there an appropriate way of complaining to G-d? 
  • Is there anything wrong with obfuscating the fact I’m Jewish when going out in public, especially with the rise of anti-Semitism?
  • Follow-up: Sin of the scouts
  • Chassidus question: What is the concept of taanug according to Chassidus? Part 2
  • MyLife 2020 Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest: 28th Place winners:
    • Essay English: Loneliness, Chaya Mushka Stern, 25, Hebrew Teacher, Brooklyn, NY
    • Essay Hebrew (men): לחיות חיים מאושרים מהדרכת ספר התניא, Itamar Yankovitch, student, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Essay Hebrew (women): שטות כדרך חיים, Chanie Lieberman, educator, Ashkelon, Israel
    • Creative: We’re In This Together (photography & poetry), Rivka Plotkin20, Student, Beis Chana – Tzfas Seminary. Hometown: 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. 

This hour-long dose of insights, broadcast live every Sunday night 8-9PM EST, is meant to provide people with inspired guidance and direction, empowering them to deal with any issue they may face. 

In what has become a staple in so many people’s lives, MyLife: Chassidus Applied 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?

MyLife demonstrates how Chassidus provides us with a comprehensive blueprint of the human psyche as a microcosm of the cosmos, and offers us all the guidance we need to live the healthiest possible life and build nurturing homes and families, bringing up the healthiest possible children, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. MyLife is brought to you by the Meaningful Life Center as a public service, free of charge.

Questions may be submitted anonymously at chassidusapplied.com/ask.

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