Ep. 248: What Is Going on with All the Recent Tragedies?

from MyLife: Chassidus Applied · host Rabbi Simon Jacobson

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 Zayin Adar I and Tetzaveh 0:28 • What is going on with all the recent tragedies? 13:59 • Should I be concerned over an ominous chain letter I received? 22:52 • Are their guidelines for using hypnosis to treat mental health? 26:58 • Will we be able to have children in the world to come? 30:17 • When a yeshiva sends students as shluchim to other yeshivos, is it considered as if the Rebbe is sending them, or as a faculty decision (which could be mistaken)? 33:36 • What boundaries should be kept when single girls have male teachers? 38:24 • Follow-up:     o Mental health referrals (episodes 243-244) 45:08     o Nursing (episode 245) 46:32     o Can anyone publish the Rebbe’s talks? (episodes 246-247) 48:16     o Not listening to the Rebbe (episode 247) 59:25     o Abortion (episode 247) 01:00:36     o How does chassidus explain the prohibition of abortion? 01:00:55 • Chassidus question: How do you explain the idea of mokom aron ayno min ha’midah – the “space of the ark is not (included) in the dimensions (of the Holy of Holies),” i.e. did not occupy space? – Part II 01:03:50 • My Life 2018 essays:     o Understanding and Dealing with Events, Chana Shpiegel, 36, Jerusalem, Israel 01:11:37     o Chassidus Lessons from Physical Therapy, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, 62, Brighton, MA 01:12:42     o Letting Go with Love: Resolving the Paradox of Ahavas Yisroel, Sasha Balofsky, 29, Philadelphia, PA 01:13:41 Submit your question now at http://www.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive or email: [email protected]. 

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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 Zayin Adar I and Tetzaveh 0:28 • What is going on with all the recent tragedies? 13:59 • Should I be concerned over an ominous chain letter I received? 22:52 • Are their guidelines for using hypnosis to treat mental health? 26:58 • Will we be able to have children in the world to come? 30:17 • When a yeshiva sends students as shluchim to other yeshivos, is it considered as if the Rebbe is sending them, or as a faculty decision (which could be mistaken)? 33:36 • What boundaries should be kept when single girls have male teachers? 38:24 • Follow-up: o Mental health referrals (episodes 243-244) 45:08 o Nursing (episode 245) 46:32 o Can anyone publish the Rebbe’s talks? (episodes 246-247) 48:16 o Not listening to the Rebbe (episode 247) 59:25 o Abortion (episode 247) 01:00:36 o How does chassidus explain the prohibition of abortion? 01:00:55 • Chassidus question: How do you explain the idea of mokom aron ayno min ha’midah – the “space of the ark is not (included) in the dimensions (of the Holy of Holies),” i.e. did not occupy space? – Part II 01:03:50 • My Life 2018 essays: o Understanding and Dealing with Events, Chana Shpiegel, 36, Jerusalem, Israel 01:11:37 o Chassidus Lessons from Physical Therapy, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, 62, Brighton, MA 01:12:42 o Letting Go with Love: Resolving the Paradox of Ahavas Yisroel, Sasha Balofsky, 29, Philadelphia, PA 01:13:41 Submit your question now at http://www.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive or email: [email protected].