MyLife: Chassidus Applied

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Tu B’Shevat and Yisro 7:00 • 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Contest, with a new artistic track: The power of initiating and presenting Chassidus in written or artistic form 3:58 • What does it mean tha...

MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 294: Special Edition Honoring the 70th Anniversary of the Rebbe’s Vision and Revolution  Yud Shevat 5710-5780 – 1950-2020  Basi L’Gani: I Have Come Into My Garden How do we actualize the calling of our seventh generation?  TOPICS: • Basi L’Gani: The inside story of the world 7:22 • Visionary: What is a Rebbe and why is he vital to our lives? 17:17 •...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Rosh Chodesh Shevat and Bo  0:23 • 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Contest, with a new artistic track: The power of initiating and presenting Chassidus in written or artistic form 1:41 • How to pre...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Announcing the 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay Contest, with a new creative track 0:37 • Chassidus Applied to 24 Teves and Vaeira 4:56 • How to prepare for the approaching 70th anniversary of the Rebbe’s leadership? &...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to 20 Teves and Shemos 0:08 • How to prepare for the approaching 70th anniversary of the Rebbe’s leadership?  11:38 • Why is the story of the Exodus not corroborated by archeological evidence? 20:02 • Were...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to 10 Teves and Vayechi 0:09 • How is one supposed to spend a fast day according to chassidus?  8:38 • March against anti-semitism 18:48 • Why doesn’t Judaism focus on self-defense, bearing weapons and oth...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • How should we react to the recent frightful attacks on Jews? 2:12 • Why is it called “Zos Chanukah”? 10:53 • Is Zos Chanukah the end of judgment of Rosh Hashana?  17:32 • What do the Chanukah flames “tell us”? 24:32 • How c...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Chanukah 0:45 • What was the dispute between the Jews and the Greeks? 4:41 • How do we explain the victory of Chanukah when in the end Greek secularism seems to have prevailed in modern times? 11:42 • What i...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Yud Tes Kislev 0:31 • Lessons from Vayeishev 18:20 • How can we compare Tanya to Torah She’Be’Ksav?  25:44 • Why was Chassidus not taught earlier? 36:26 • Why don’t we follow the opinion of the majority...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Marriage lessons from Yud Dalet Kislev: 91st anniversary of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s wedding 13:30      o How should a person decide whom to marry? 18:31      o Who should peopl...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Vayeitzei and Tes Kislev  0:14 • What is the connection between the rods Jacob took to breed the flocks and Tefillin? 17:54 • Why didn't Jacob free Bilha and Zilpa? 26:30 • Lessons from the Kinus HaShlu...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Rosh Chodesh Kislev and Toldos 0:24 • Lessons from the Kinus HaShluchim 15:24 • Why do so some overdo it and add extreme titles to the Rebbe? 22:26 • What happens to people after they die? 25:19 • What defin...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Chof Cheshvan: Beginning of 160 years since the Rebbe Rashab’s birth (5621), and 100 years from his histalkus (5680) 4:13 • Lessons from Chayei Sarah 17:52 • How does the mistreatment of the poor by Sodom co...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Vayeira. 0:15 • How did Avraham know that it was G-d talking to him, and not a hallucination? 09:40 • How can we explain the Akeidah?  15:55 • How can you find your personal Lech-Lecha?  25:05 • Wh...

Chassidus Applied to Zayin Cheshvan and Lech Lecha 0:12 What should we be doing to disseminate the seven Noachide laws?  12:00 Are today’s non-Jews chassidei umos ha’olam (righteous gentiles)? 12:30 How can we be a light onto the nations, when the eastern cultures, which make up half the world, have had little exposure to Judaism? 24:50 Why do some Jews have long peyot (sidelocks) and others...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to End of Tishrei, post holidays, Cheshvan and Noach 3:30 • How can we be sure that other people have forgiven us, as G-d forgives us? 18:58 • During the High Holidays why is there more focus on our relationshi...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Yom Kippur and Sukkot 9:45 38:45 • Lessons from Vov Tishrei 55 years 2:11 • What is the meaning of Kol Nidrei? 14:13 • What is the view of Chabad Chassidus on tikkunim for aveiros? 20:01    • How d...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Rosh Hashana 5780 0:08 • Lessons from 25 Elul and Netzavim 11:58 • Since a person’s amount of income is determined on Rosh Hashana, does it make any difference how many hours we invest in work? 15:34 • Can w...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to 15 Elul, 18 Elul and Ki Tovo 0:09 • Is it prohibited to see a psychic? 16:02 • How do I move on from my parents' ugly divorce? 19:08 • How much should one reveal about their own past experiences when trying...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to 13 Elul and Ki Teitzei 0:55 • How do you explain the laws of yefas to’ar and ben sorer u’moreh in this week’s parsha? 06:52 • What methods should be used to discipline young students? 30:55 • Is it appropria...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Elul and Shoftim 0:10 • Why doesn’t Torah and Judaism celebrate art as it does song?  9:19 • How should we relate to Rabbis with different standards? 24:08 • Considering the Rebbe refusing to receive a...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Re’eh and Rosh Chodesh Elul 0:18 • According to Chassidus what relationship should we have with the physical objects in our lives – clothing, furniture, gifts we receive, antiques etc.? 16:31 • What is the s...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Chof Av and Eikev 0:15 • Lessons from Blessing the Month of Elul 16:00 • Is there a lesson from every single word in Torah? 19:11 • How can you say that you are not getting political when the mere fact that...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Tishe B’Av nidche 0:11 • Lessons from 15th of Av and Shabbos Nachamu 12:30 • Has the Rebbe ever made public statements about mass shootings, why they happen and what can be done to prevent them? 21:36 • Does...

Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to the 5th of Av and Shabbos Chazon 1:06 • Is there life on other planets according to Torah? 17:07 • Does Cholov Yisroel affect our emunah? 21:46 • Is it appropriate to paint a mural of the Alter Rebbe on an a...