Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-rabbi-jacobson/ or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponsorships THIS WEEK'S T...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Submit your question now at https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ask-... or email: info@chassidusapplied.com. WEBSITE: https://www.chassidusapplied.com/ EMAIL US: info@chassidusapplied.com SPONSOR A MYLIFE: CHASSIDUS APPLIED EPISODE, OR EXPLORE OTHER GIVING OPPORTUNITIES: https://www.meaningfullife.com/sponso... THIS WEEK'S TOPICS: • Chassi...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Dedicated by Chava and Ephraim Merovitch In honor of Chava's birthday, Rosh Chodesh Iyar And in loving memory of HaRav HaChosid R' Mordechai Tzvi ben Chaim Yosef a"h Greenwald Yahrzeit, 3 Iyar 5778 TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied to Beis Iyar • What is the story behind Moshiach’s Sefer Torah -- concluded 50 years ago? • Lessons from Acharei...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. Dedicated in honor of Aharon Eliyahu Ben Leah And in honor of all the great yidden helping their brethren during these tough times. TOPICS: • Chassidus Applied and lessons for our time from Post-Pesach, Chof Ches Nissan, Tazria-Metzora and Rosh Chodesh Iyar 01:38 Post Pesach 18:38 • Chof Ches Nissan: It’s up to you 07:14 • Iyar: Acronym...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 10 min
SPECIAL CHOL HAMOED PESACH EDITION In this special edition, Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains what we can learn from Moshiach’s Seudah regarding the challenges facing us today TOPICS: • Can you please give us more Torah/Chassidic perspective on the approach we should be taking in dealing with this unprecedented quarantine? 12:55 • As a single, I find the loneliness unbearable. Please share some advice? 13:35 • How can a lockdown in our homes be seen as an opportunity? 27:16 • What possible benefit c...
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Chassidus applied to Yud Alef Nissan 0:24 What does Shabbos HaGadol mean today? Yud Gimmel Nissan: Lessons from the Tzemech Tzedek about an epidemic 27:30 How is this night different? Lessons from Pesach 03:40 How can we be making Pesach and fulfilling our other obligations when we should be helping others in this time of need? 46:23 What is the significance of reading the nasi? 24:23 Increasing in Torah study in honor of Yud Alef Nissan 26:06 What is the significance of corona meaning crown? Is...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL CORONA EDITION PART IV Dedicated in honor of Eliezer ben Sheina Miriam, for a complete and speedy refuah shleimah In this special edition of MyLife, Rabbi Simon Jacobson teaches a powerful and unique text from the Arizal discussing the nature and spiritual roots of an epidemic, and what can be done to counter it. TOPICS: • How d...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS EDITION PART III TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Vayikra and Rosh Chodesh Nissan 01:08:34 • Beis Nissan: 100 Years 23:10 • Letter from Milan: How can we hold on? 16:56 • Where is G-d in all of this? And the Rebbeim? 06:41 • Why is it happening these days – the most joyous and liberating time of the year? • Who do we t...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL CORONAVIRUS EDITION TOPICS: • Coronavirus o How did our ancestors deal with plagues? 03:30 o Has the Rebbe ever made public statements about pandemics and what we can do on a physical and spiritual level to stop them? 16:05 o Are the yeshivas that are closing due to corona virus violating the edict shomer mitzvos lo yeda devar r...
Mar 16, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. SPECIAL PURIM EDITION TOPICS: • Chassidus applied to Purim 1:43 • Why do we keep the Fast of Esther today when there is no decree? 08:32 • Why is there ever a mitzvah to get drunk? 12:34 • How could Mordecahi put all the Jews in danger by not bowing to Haman? 21:35 • Are their allusions in midrash that Esther was married to Mordechai? 2...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 15 min
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 Tes Adar – 80 years 5:34 • Lessons from Zayin Adar, Tetzaveh and Zochor 12:19 • How do we know that Moshe was born on the 7th of Adar when the Jewish months were not organized until long after Moshe lived? 13:03 • Why are Menashe and Ephraim not included in the shoham stones? 29:52 • How is it just for G-d...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 10 min
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 Adar and Terumah 0:26 • Is joy inherent or acquired? 01:25 • Why can’t we build the third Temple by ourselves? 11:40 • After witnessing the parting of the sea how could the Jews sin? 17:12 • How do we explain the laws of slavery? 22:07 • Why is mixing meat and milk prohibited when they combine chesed and g...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 14 min
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 Beis Shevat 3:27 • 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Contest, with a new artistic track: The power of initiating and presenting Chassidus in written or artistic form 2:40 • What role does the Rebbetzin play in our lives? 16:12 • What did the Rebbetzin say to the Rebbe that convinced him to official...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 8 min
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 that Tu B’Shevat is the new year for trees? 7:36 • Did Moshe marry into a non-Jewish family? 21:45 • Yu...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 13 min
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 • Seventh generation: The Rebbe’s revolution 14:24 • How do we bond with the Rebbe’s vision? 18:55 • How did the Rebbe ...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min
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 prepare for the approaching 70th anniversary of the Rebbe’s leadership? 2:59 • Was the Rebbe's statement that...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 11 min
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? 20:36 • Is there any basis to the idea that the work of the seventh generation is ishapcha (transform...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 12 min
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 any of the Rebbeim influenced by secular philosophers like the Rambam was by Aristotle? 28:24 • Is any Ch...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 10 min
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 other methods of protecting ourselves? 23:44 • What is Chabad’s position on Daf Yomi and the Siyum HaShas? 35...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 13 min
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 can we maintain the Chanukah energy after the holiday and not feel down? 27:14 • Lessons from Hei Teves and...
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 13 min
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 is the halachik and hashkafic explanation for public menorahs? 17:53 • Lessons from Miketz 25:41 • Ho...
Dec 23, 2019•1 hr 9 min
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 regarding Chassidus? 41:48 • Does the body have its own energy besides the life force coming to it from t...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 10 min
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 people invite to their wedding? 22:40 o What is the bare minimum amount of people that should be at the wedding? 23:50 o How long should the wedding be? 23:57 o What...
Dec 09, 2019•1 hr 8 min
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 HaShluchim 34:31 • Is there a point in learning something I don’t understand? 36:26 • Is it within a person’s re...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 13 min
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 defines a proper avodah in Kriyas Shema She’al Hamitah? 30:13 • Are there Chassidic methods to help ease ...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 12 min
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 compare to some behavior today? 23:27 • What lessons can we learn from the current impeachment hearing...
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 11 min
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 • What can a child do if he is having issues with his parents, and they don’t respond? 28:11 • How to deal with soci...
Nov 11, 2019•1 hr 13 min
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 do not? 30:46 Why has 770 not been expanded as the Rebbe wished? 44:27 When is the right time to consider ...
Nov 04, 2019•1 hr 9 min
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 relationship with G-d than on our relationship with each other? 19:05 • What exactly is happening when the koha...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr 13 min
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 do we understand the obligation of forgiveness? 23:54 • Why is the Chassidus of the Rebbe Maharash and the Tzemach...
Oct 07, 2019•1 hr 13 min
