8:00PM: Has the Rebbe Ever Made Public Statements About Mass Shootings? Are We Properly Educating Newlyweds in the Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy Intimacy?

The topics in this week’s 272nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

  • Chassidus Applied to Tishe B’Av nidche
  • Lessons from 15th of Av and Shabbos Nachamu
  • Has the Rebbe ever made public statements about mass shootings, why they happen and what can be done to prevent them?
  • Does real bitachon include believing that everything Hashem sends our way will be revealed good?
  • What should our reaction be to women claiming the right to setup a Tefillin stand for women, just as Chabad does for men?
  • Are we properly educating newlyweds in the difference between healthy and unhealthy intimacy? 
  • How are we to react to stories that seem to compromise the Rebbe?
  • Follow up:
    • Parental alienation (episode 269)
    • What does the Rebbe say about vaccinations? (episodes 269-271)
    • Cholov Yisroel (episode 271)
  • Chassidus question: How do you explain the four methods of capital punishment proscribed in the Torah?
  • My Life 2019 essays: Transcending Conflict, Noach Kane, 23, Morristown, NJ; “Human Doing”? Discover Your True Essence: A “Human Becoming”, Yochi Ress, 41, Johannesburg, South Africa;  צומת דרכים, Chaya Mushka Beckerman, 17, Jerusalem, Israel

 

This hour-long dose of insights, broadcast live every Sunday night 8-9PM EST, is meant to inform, inspire and empower us by applying the teachings of Chassidus to help us face practical and emotional challenges and difficulties in our personal lives and relationships. To have your question addressed, please submit it at chassidusapplied.com/ask.

In what has now become a staple in so many people’s lives, MyLife: Chassidus Applied addresses questions that many people are afraid to ask and others are afraid to answer. When asked about the sensitive topics he has been addressing, Rabbi Simon Jacobson commented, “I understand that the stakes are high and great care has to be taken when speaking openly, but the silence and lack of clarity on matters plaguing the community can no longer go unaddressed. The stakes of not providing answers are even higher.”

The on-going series 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?

In inimitable “Jacobson-fashion”, the broadcast answers people’s questions in simple, clear language while being heavily sourced. Each episode is jam-packed with eye-opening advice from the Rebbeim, gleaned from uncovering surprising gems in their letters, sichos and maamorim that address our personal issues with disarming relevance. Simultaneously, Rabbi Jacobson is able to crystallize a concept quickly, succinctly, and poignantly for any level of listener.

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