8:00pm: Should We Be Applauding the Launch of a New Telescope That Can Peer Back to the Beginning of Existence?
The topics in this week’s 388th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus Applied to 15 Shevat
- What do we learn from trees?
- Should we water our plants on the Rosh Hashana of Trees?
- Lessons from Yisro
- What is the relevance of Sinai today?
- Why was the Torah given in a way that frightened the people?
- How do we reconcile the Jews accepting the Torah without question, and then trembling when they heard G-d’s voice?
- Did we receive the entire Torah at Sinai or only the Ten Commandments?
- Is there a connection between Yisro advising Moshe to delegate and the Rebbe sending out thousands of shluchim?
- Yud Shevat follow-up
- During the Yud Shevat Farbrengen 5711, did someone ask the rebbe to say a maamar?
- What’s the story about the newspaper announcing the Rebbe’s assuming leadership?
- What is the shechina? And how can it be concealed?
- What can we learn from yesterday’s hostage crisis in Texas?
- Do these things happen to elicit our prayers and tehillim?
- What attitude should we have to the recent auction of personal items of the Rebbeim?
- Can one use a pig’s heart for a heart transplant?
- Should we be applauding the launch of a new telescope that can peer back to the beginning of existence?
- How should we address the recent abuse scandal? Follow-up
- Chassidus question: What is the meaning of the statement that “without Ohr the world would be dark and separate from its creator” – doesn’t all of life come from Ohr?
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