8:00PM: How Can a Torah Observant Jew Be Obnoxious?

The topics in this week’s 400th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: 

  • Chassidus Applied to the month of Iyar
    • What energy and message does this month contain?
    • What are the different acronyms of Iyar?
    • What is true health and true healing?
  • Lessons from Parshas Kedoshim
    • What is holiness?
    • How is it different than goodness?
    • What does the Kedoshim add to all the many other verses where we are told to sanctify ourselves?
    • How can a Torah observant Jew be obnoxious?
    • Why is love the “entire Torah” when many mitzvos are between man and G-d?
    • Is eating and sleeping l’shem shomayim a mitzva equal to mitzvos like tefillin, shabbos and kashrus, because it falls under kedoshim ti’hiyu?
    • How can the Torah speak negatively about people when there is a prohibition of loshon hara?
    • Will committing not to sacrifice our children to Moloch help us have children?
    • What do we learn from pigul?
  • How do I explain to my children why we can’t attend a Yom Ha’atzmaut event?
  • How do I honor my mother who just passed away?
  • Why isn’t music used more often in shuls and Jewish institutions?
  • Chassidus question: Can we be as holy as G-d?


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 human experience. 

This hour-long dose of insights, broadcast live every Sunday night 8-9PM ET, 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.

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