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8:00pm: How Should We React to New Astronomical Discoveries?

The topics in this week’s 410th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

  • Chassidus Applied to 17 Tammuz Nidche 
    • What does this day teach us? 
    • What can we learn from the nidche?
    • If Judaism doesn’t believe in collective punishment, why do we fast and do teshuva for the sins of our fathers?
  • How are the Three Weeks relevant today?
  • Chassidus Applied to Pinchas
    • Why was Pinchas granted the covenant of peace for his act of zealousness?
    • Why did G-d wait until the daughters of Tzelofchad complained about not having an inheritance before writing new inheritance laws into the Torah for them?
  • How should we react to new astronomical discoveries?
    • How large is the universe according to the Torah?
    • Why did G-d create the multitude of galaxies? Doesn’t this render the Earth as nothing but a puff of a speck in the universe without much importance?
    • Do these findings prove that the universe is billions of years old?
  • Can we go on a hunger strike until G-d sends us Moshiach?
  • What can I do about my addiction to TV?
  • What was the Rebbe’s intention in printing Tanyas in every possible location?
  • Follow-up
  • Chassidus question: How does Chassidus explain the Three Weeks?

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.

Questions may be submitted anonymously at chassidusapplied.com/ask.

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