8:00pm: Can a Rov Ever Go Bad, and if He Does, How Can You Know and What Can You Do?

The topics in this week’s 385th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

· Chassidus applied to Vaeirah

o What can we learn from this week’s parsha about our own challenges?

o Why did G-d reveal the name Havaya to Moshe and not to the Patriarchs?

o How could Moshe just walk into Pharoah’s palace?

· Lessons from 24 Teves

o What is the significance of this day and what does it teach us?

o What did the Alter Rebbe know about the founding of the USA which happened in his time?

o Why was it important that the Alter Rebbe was a new soul?

o Why can’t we sing the Alter Rebbe’s niggun any time we wish?

o Did the Alter Rebbe write another book called Sefer Shel Tzaddikim?

· Does a mashpia have to care for his mushpa?

· Can a rov ever go bad, and if he does, how can you know and what can you do?

· Follow-up

o Do I pursue intellectual truth no matter where it may lead me, even if that causes me to leave yiddishkeit?

o When Moshe killed the Egyptian why did it matter who descended from him?

o Why Exodus is celebrated over one week

· Can you explain Pascal’s wager and why it makes sense mathematically to take the gamble that there really is a G-d?

· Chassidus question: Please explain the three impure kelipos. If we are to abstain from them, why can we use them for certain things, as riding a horse or owning a dog?

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