8:00pm: How Do We Maintain Inspiration After the Holidays?
The topics in this week’s 373rd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus applied to the Post-Holiday Season and Cheshvan
- How do we maintain the inspiration?
- Can we bottle the energy of Simchas Torah?
- Why are there no holidays in Cheshvan?
- Why is it called Mar Cheshvan?
- Lessons from Bereishis
- Why doesn’t the Torah begin with Elokim barah bereshis?
- When were angels created?
- Is a soul a creation, or did souls always exist in the same manner that Torah and Hashem always existed?
- Why did Adam and Eve cover themselves after eating from the tree of knowledge?
- Why did G-d ask Adam “where are you?”
- Was it part of G-d’s plan that Adam and Eve sin in order to repair? And if so, why shouldn’t we sin for the same reason?
- Lessons from Noach
- On what grounds did Hashem have the “right” to destroy Noach’s generation with a flood?
- What did they do aboard the ark not to go crazy with cabin fever?
- Were there kangaroos on Noach’s ark?
- How was waste disposed of on the ark?
- What can we learn from the three floors in the ark?
- If the purpose of bringing animals into Noach’s ark was to prevent their extinction, why would G-d allow thousands of species from becoming extinct since?
- Why did G-d allow the consumption of meat after the flood?
- Sukkos
- Why do we say that it’s challenging to eat in a Sukkah when in Israel the weather is perfect that time of year?
- What is the origin of the Sukkos ushpizin?
- Chassidus question: Please explain the application of the Chet Etz HaDaas to our personal lives?
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