MyLife: Chassidus Applied

Ep. 360: How Should We React to the Catastrophic Building Collapse in South Florida?


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Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:


  • How should we react to the catastrophic building collapse in South Florida?
  • With the recent structural disasters in Meron (in Iyar), Stolin (in Sivan) and now in Surfside (in Tammuz), what are we to think?
  • Chassidus applied to 17 Tammuz
  • What is the significance of this day?
    Why do we still fast for an event that happened 2,000 years ago, but we don’t have a fast day for the holocaust that was less than a hundred years ago?
    What can we learn from the breaching of the Jerusalem walls?
  • Lessons from Pinchas
  • Does Pinchas killing Zimri without due process leave room for antinomianism?
    Why is Pinchas rewarded for zealotry? Isn’t that setting a precedent for inspiring zealots to commit crimes?
    Why were there no laws in the Torah protecting women and their rights to inheritance until the daughters of Tzelaphchad spoke up and complained?
    Why were the daughters of Tzelaphchad not punished for complaining?
  • Complaining to G-d
  • Why was G-d so harsh with us when we complained in the wilderness?
    Is there an appropriate way of complaining to G-d?
  • Is there anything wrong with obfuscating the fact I'm Jewish when going out in public, especially with the rise of anti-Semitism?
  • Follow-up: Sin of the scouts
  • Chassidus question: What is the concept of taanug according to Chassidus? Part 2
  • MyLife 2020 Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest: 28th Place winners:
  • Essay English: Loneliness, Chaya Mushka Stern, 25, Hebrew Teacher, Brooklyn, NY
    Essay Hebrew (men): לחיות חיים מאושרים מהדרכת ספר התניא, Itamar Yankovitch, student, Jerusalem, Israel
    Essay Hebrew (women): שטות כדרך חיים, Chanie Lieberman, educator, Ashkelon, Israel
    Creative: We’re In This Together (photography & poetry), Rivka Plotkin20, Student, Beis Chana – Tzfas Seminary. Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
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