EPISODE · Mar 26, 2024 · 1H 10M
Ep. 490: Should We Allow Jews Siding With Our Enemies Celebrate Purim With Us?
from MyLife: Chassidus Applied · host Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode 490: Special Purim EditionWhen: Sunday, March 24, 8:00PM ETFor recording visit the archive page or your favorite podcast carrier.Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:What does Purim teach us today? What is the main theme of Purim and how can we access its power in our time? How can Purim help us face our enemies today and transform even the greatest threat to total victory? Why is Purim celebrated with so much joy, more than any other day in the year? What is the meaning of “everyone who stretches out his hand, is given” on Purim? What happened Purim 1966 when the Rebbe made this announcement? What were the three different ways the Rebbe reacted to those stretching out their cups, and what fundamental lessons can we learn from them? Can Megillas Esther be translated as the revelation of the concealed? Why is Purim named after a lottery? If Haman was accessing a level beyond good and evil how could he have channeled that into evil? What is the connection between Purim and Yom Ha'Ki-Purim? Is Haman a representation of the primordial evil of the snake in the Garden of Eden? Why is Shushan Purim celebrated only in cities that had walls since the time of Joshua? Is there an advantage to living in a walled city? What is the deeper meaning behind the Megillah being read from the eleventh to the fifteenth of the month? How is Purim considered the completion of the giving of the Torah? Should we gather children together to recite verses to help vanquish our enemies as Mordechai did? Can we explain Moshiach’s imminent arrival with the events as they occurred during the days of Purim? If the Rabbis can alter the laws of reading the Megillah allowing it to be read earlier to accommodate Jews, why can’t they decree the immediate coming of Moshiach? Should we allow Jews siding with our enemies celebrate Purim with us? Did the Rebbe say that whistling is connected to Moshiach?
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Episode 490: Special Purim EditionWhen: Sunday, March 24, 8:00PM ETFor recording visit the archive page or your favorite podcast carrier.Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:What does Purim teach us today? What is the main theme of Purim and how can we access its power in our time? How can Purim help us face our enemies today and transform even the greatest threat to total victory? Why is Purim celebrated with so much joy, more than any other day in the year? What is the meaning of “everyone who stretches out his hand, is given” on Purim? What happened Purim 1966 when the Rebbe made this announcement? What were the three different ways the Rebbe reacted to those stretching out their cups, and what fundamental lessons can we learn from them? Can Megillas Esther be translated as the revelation of the concealed? Why is Purim named after a lottery? If Haman was accessing a level beyond good and evil how could he have channeled that into evil? What is the connection between Purim and Yom Ha'Ki-Purim? Is Haman a representation of the primordial evil of the snake in the Garden of Eden? Why is Shushan Purim celebrated only in cities that had walls since the time of Joshua? Is there an advantage to living in a walled city? What is the deeper meaning behind the Megillah being read from the eleventh to the fifteenth of the month? How is Purim considered the completion of the giving of the Torah? Should we gather children together to recite verses to help vanquish our enemies as Mordechai did? Can we explain Moshiach’s imminent arrival with the events as they occurred during the days of Purim? If the Rabbis can alter the laws of reading the Megillah allowing it to be read earlier to accommodate Jews, why can’t they decree the immediate coming of Moshiach? Should we allow Jews siding with our enemies celebrate Purim with us? Did the Rebbe say that whistling is connected to Moshiach?
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Ep. 490: Should We Allow Jews Siding With Our Enemies Celebrate Purim With Us?
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