Ep. 261: Does Chassidus Ever Expect Us to Sleep Less Than Is Normally Required?

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 Pesach Sheni and Lag B’Omer 0:10

• Lessons from Behar 12:30

• As an orthodox Jew teaching in a secular school, how do I navigate and draw the line between insisting kindness and acceptance of all students in our classroom, and normalizing or condoning behavior that is forbidden by Torah? 17:50

• Is there a healthy need for ego? 26:30

• Can a sociopath do teshuva? 31:45

• Does Chassidus ever expect us to sleep less than is normally required? 37:30

• Are there any situations when we can shake hands with someone from the opposite gender? 45:10

• Follow-up (episode 260): Moustache; Consciousness 51:33

• Chassidus question: Please explain the statement that for certain souls, like Rashbi, there was no churban (destruction of the Beis HaMikdash). 54:50

• My Life 2019 essay contest winners:

   o Chassidic Lessons on Growing through Trauma, Aharon Zev Moshel, 18, Melbourne, Australia 1:00:45

   o מודל א.ב.א. – התשובה החסידית להפרעות החרדה בעולמנו המודרני, Menachem Mendel Dekel, 22, Yokne-am, Israel 1:02:32

   o אגואיזם – מבעיה אל פתרונה, Levi Wilhelm, 17, Tzfat, Israel 1:04:42