Ep. 262: Why Did G-d Create Poor People?
Episode description
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 Bechukosei and Blessing the Month of Sivan 0:43
• Is Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students a rounded or an actual number? 12:00
• Who authored the Zohar and what are its origins? 16:42
• Why did G-d create poor people? 27:47
• How can I deal with conflicting feelings about Yiddishkeit and Chabad – I feel at times that I am living a double life? 38:03
• Should non-Jewish spouses be welcomed in synagogues? 42:33
• Does a tinok she’nishba have free will? 47:27
• What is the legal and theological perspective on comatose states and on brain death? 49:40
• Anti-Semitism – follow-up 55:45
• Chassidus question: Who repairs the “shattered” containers of Tohu – G-d or us? 58:05
• My Life 2019 essay contest winners:
o התעלמות והדחקה כפתרון אפקטיבי, Yisroel Dandrowitz, 41, Arad, Israel 1:05:21
o מי שם פה לאדם, Menachem Mendel Amiti, 24, Jerusalem, Israel 1:07:09
o מיינדפולנס חסידי, Shmuel Elboim, 40, Beitar Illit, Israel 1:08:01