Ep. 262: Why Did G-d Create Poor People?

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