MyLife: Chassidus Applied

MyLife Chassidus Applied: Where YOUR questions are answeredDonate now: https://mylife500.comFor recording visit the archive page or your favorite podcast carrier. Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:How should we react to Operation Rising Lion? • What is G-d's message to us today? 05:36 • What can we learn from the operation being called Rising Lion, from the verse k’lovi yokum? 1...

MyLife Chassidus Applied: Where YOUR questions are answeredDonate now: https://mylife500.comFor recording visit the archive page or your favorite podcast carrier. Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:Post Shavous? • What is the significance of the 12th of Sivan? 01:10 • What is the energy and focus of our work during this time period? 07:54 • Why did we need to refine ourselves during...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: How should we respond to the latest tragic Washington murders?  Where is Hashem in all of this?  Is there something we can do?  Should we stop displaying our Jewish identity, not go to shul, remove Jewish symbols?  Why do we read this Torah chapter before Shavuos?  Who owns the Torah? Can anyone claim royalties?  What personal and global lessons do...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: What is the connection between this Omer period, Lag B’Omer and the weekly Torah portion?  Revealing the hidden and deeper good even in negative experiences  What is the central theme of this week’s Torah chapter?  Is Judaism rigid or flexible? Static or dynamic?  What personal and global lessons does it offer us for our times?  Why are some blessi...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: What lessons can we learn from 13 Iyar, the 73rd yahrzeit of Reb Yisroel Aryeh Leib a”h   What does his name and life teach us?  What did the Rebbe say after he stood up from shiva for his brother in 1952?  How do we deal with setbacks and difficulties?  How do we personalize this day?  Is there a connection between the 13 and 14th of Iyar?  Why do...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: In loving memory of Rabbi Sholom Lipskar a”h  A few words about Rabbi Jacobson’s relationship with Rabbi Lipskar  What is the meaning of “living with the times”?  What is the central theme of this Parsha?  What is the meaning of sanctification?  How do we sanctify the mundane?  How can someone be despicable in the “name of Torah”?  How do we create...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:Transition from Nissan to Iyar  What is the central theme of this period in time?  What is the meaning of geulah – personally and psychologically?  Rosh Chodesh Iyar  What lessons do we learn from this month?  What is the significance of it being the second month, and of its acronyms?  Beis Iyar  Is there a connection between Tiferes of Tiferes and...

MyLife Chassidus Applied: Where YOUR questions are answeredDonate now: https://mylife500.comFor recording visit the archive page or your favorite podcast carrier. Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:Yud Alef Nissan • How do we honor the Rebbe’s 123rd birthday? 02:17 • What is the significance of the number eleven? 17:30 • How is it related to the Rebbe’s leadership? 17:50 • Is there a...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Rosh Chodesh Nissan  Why is this day and month unique?  What is the significance that the first mitzvah we were given as a nation is blessing the new moon of the month of Nissan?  What is the meaning of Nissan?  What is the difference between nissim and niflaos?  Is the revelation of this month initiated from above or below?  What does it teach and...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: 27 Adar  What lessons do we learn from this day?  Did the Rebbe say anything prior to this day preparing us for events to come?  The chronology of this week’s Torah portion and the following books of the Torah  What is the central theme of this week’s Torah chapter?  Why is accountability so vital?  What personal and global lessons does it offer us...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Triple Purim (Meshulash) in Jerusalem    Adar  How can joy increase after Purim?  Is there a connection between joy and Purim and the sign of Pisces/fish of the month of Adar?   inner dimensions and secrets? How does joy reveal What does Purim teach us about today’s wars with our enemies?  Why did Mordechai not bow to Haman (follow-up)?  Why do the...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: What lessons can we learn from Tes Adar – 85 years later?  Why was coming to America a new era in history?  What does Purim teach us about today’s wars with our enemies?  Can we compare Hamas to Haman?  Is there a connection between the redemption of Purim and the final redemption?  Why will Purim be the only holiday that we will celebrate in the f...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: 44th Siyum HaRambam  What is its significance?  Why did the Rebbe institute learning the daily Rambam?  When was it instituted and what is some of the background?  Why does the Rambam’s book of halachas begin and end with discussing G-d's existence?  What is the theme and energy of this month?  What is the source that the mazal of this month is spe...

MyLife Chassidus Applied: Where YOUR questions are answeredDonate now: https://mylife500.comFor recording visit the archive page or your favorite podcast carrier. Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:Bibas family tragedy 0:30 • How should we react to the tragic news that the mother and her two red headed babies were murdered by the terrorist savages? 05:10 • Is revenge an acceptable re...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:  Are we living in Messianic times?  How do we open our eyes and see redemption coming?  What lessons do we learn from this day, especially for our times?  What does the Rebbetzin represent in our lives?  How do we know what stories to believe about the Rebbetzin?  If the Rebbetzin wanted her privacy, why are we speaking about her so publicly?  Is t...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Yud Shevat – 75 Years: Chassidus Applied to Basi L’Gani What is the main takeaway from this foundational discourse? What do we learn about the tzimtzum in this year’s chapter 15 and the Rebbe’s maamorim of 5725 and 5745? What are its practical applications? Does tzimtzum separate or connect us with the Divine? What do we learn from the Magid’s Tora...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Yud Shevat – 75 Years  What is the significance of this milestone?  How does Basi L’Gani capture the central theme and mission of our seventh generation?  What lessons do we learn from chapter 15 of Basi L’Gani?  What is the chiddush that the most hidden treasures –  l'maaleh maaleh ad ayn kaytz  – are splurged on to the foot soldiers empowerin...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Bo How does this week’s Torah portion about the Egyptian exile and exodus reflect the challenges, disruptions and transitions in today’s world? What is the central theme of this Torah chapter? What personal and global lessons does it offer us? Can we apply the story of exodus to the hostages today? And the war in Gaza with the war against the Egypt...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Is the recent cease-fire and hostage exchange a positive thing?  What would the Rebbe say about this?  Is there anything positive that emerged from the hostage crisis?  What should be our long-term goal?  With all the disappointments should we become more complacent?  What can we learn from the Rambam today?  How was the Rambam unique?  What can we...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: What can we learn from the LA fires?  Should we see them as a punishment?  How do our good deeds help prevent disasters?  Are they a sign of better things to come?  What does it mean that after a fire we become rich?  Are events like this foretold in the Torah?  Why are the prophets cryptic?  What is the central theme of this Torah chapter?  What p...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Chassidus Applied to Hei Teves What do we commemorate and celebrate on this day? What was the spiritual trial and victory connected to this day? Why were the stolen books considered a challenge to the Rebbe’s leadership? Why did the Rebbe take such offense to the statement by the opposition that Chabad is not “active”? How does Hei Teves express a...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: What is Chanukah’s message to us today?  How does it teach us to find hope and light in challenging times?  What is the personal application of the Chanukah light details – time, place, number, oil? What does the oil represent? Chassidus Applied to Chanukah and Zos Chanukah  Why do we eat potato latkes and donuts on Chanukah?  Is it a mitzvah?  Wha...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: What energy do we draw from these days between Yud Tes Kislev and Chanukah?  What do these holidays have in common?  Why don’t we study Torah on nittel eve?  How can refraining from Torah study have a positive impact?  How can a negative turn into a positive?  Why is there a custom to play chess at this time?  What connection does it have with Chan...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Chassidus Applied to Yud Daled Kislev  What is its significance?   History and stories  What did the Rebbe say about meriting the 60th anniversary?  Why did the Rebbe not edit his blessing on the 60th anniversary?  What personal lessons do we learn from the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin’s marriage?  What did Yud Tes Kislev accomplish?  How did it affect...

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics: Chassidus Applied to Yud Daled Kislev  What is its significance?   History and stories  What did the Rebbe say about meriting the 60th anniversary?  Why did the Rebbe not edit his blessing on the 60th anniversary?  What personal lessons do we learn from the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin’s marriage?  What did Yud Tes Kislev accomplish?  How did it affect...