8:00pm: Is It Appropriate to Watch the Super Bowl and the Olympics? What Is an Appropriate Relationship Between Cousins of Opposite Gender?
The topics in this week’s 392nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:
- Chassidus Applied to Ki Tissa
- What do we learn from this chapter?
- How do we navigate life’s ups and downs and twists and turns? The Rebbe’s Sicha 30 years ago this week
- Is there a connection between the golden calf and the giant bull sculpture on Wall Street which symbolizes money and greed?
- If the 13 attributes of mercy say G-d is slow to anger, why was G-d so quick to anger at when He saw people building and worshipping a golden calf?
- What is the significance of Moshe’s mask?
- Does it have any connection to the masks we wear on Purim?
- Why was it necessary to make a second set of tablets instead of just repairing the first broken set?
- Purim Katan
- Did the original Purim happen in a leap year, and if so was it in the first or second Adar?
- What are some of the customs we do on Purim Katan?
- Is there a connection between a leap year, called a “pregnant” year (shana m’ueberes) and women having children?
- What is the background behind the Baal Shem Tov’s Siddur?
- How can my spouse and I reconcile after an argument?
- Is it appropriate to watch the Super Bowl and the Olympics?
- What is an appropriate relationship between cousins of opposite gender?
- How should we address sexual abuse and its coverup? – Follow-up
- Chassidus question: How do we distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate “intermediaries” between G-d and us?
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