Is Joy Inherent or Acquired?

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 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 gevurah? 26:34
• How can people frown on marring a ger (convert) when it’s prohibited to discriminate against geirim? 32:04
• How to deal with discrepancies between Torah and science? 38:08
• Why not study different religious beliefs before determining what is truth? 46:32
• What are the standards for a mechitzah according to the Rebbe? 53:01
• Follow up (episode 291; 296):
o Kasha on Shabbos Shira 58:16
o Secular studies 56:52
• Chassidus question: Please explain in practical terms the difference between the three stages discussed by the Rebbe in the sicha of 22 Shevat 5752 01:00:22
• My Life 2019 essays:
o עולם התהו ותיקון בחינוך, Dovid Altman, 43, Dnipro, Ukraine 01:08:05
o Get R.E.A.L.! Chanie Wilhelm, 36, Milford, CT 01:09:28
o המסגרת היפה ביותר, Meira Nachimovsky, 39, Be'er Sheva, Israel 01:11:15

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