Ep. 400: How Can a Torah Observant Jew Be Obnoxious?

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:

• Chassidus Applied to the month of IyarWhat energy and message does this month contain?
  What are the different acronyms of Iyar?
  What is true health and true healing?
  
• Lessons from Parshas KedoshimWhat is holiness?
  How is it different than goodness?
  What does the Kedoshim add to all the many other verses where we are told to sanctify ourselves?
  How can a Torah observant Jew be obnoxious?
  Why is love the “entire Torah” when many mitzvos are between man and G-d?
  Is eating and sleeping l’shem shomayim a mitzva equal to mitzvos like tefillin, shabbos and kashrus, because it falls under kedoshim ti’hiyu?
  How can the Torah speak negatively about people when there is a prohibition of loshon hara?
  Will committing not to sacrifice our children to Moloch help us have children?
  What do we learn from pigul?
  
• How do I explain to my children why we can't attend a Yom Ha’atzmaut event?
• How do I honor my mother who just passed away?
• Why isn’t music used more often in shuls and Jewish institutions?
• Chassidus question: Can we be as holy as G-d?