Why Do We Eat Dairy on Shavuos?

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 Bamidbar and Shavuos 00:28
• Why do we eat dairy on Shavuos? 9:25
• Now that most of the world's Jews live in Israel, should the focus shift from a disapora-centric Judaism to an Israel-centric Judaism? 19:25
• Why are we told more about the yetzer hara than the yetzer tov? 27:19
• Should we be more sensitive to older singles when we bless them to find a shidduch? 30:55
• According to Torah, are women permitted to vote? 34:52
• Should I be learning deeper maamorim in Chassidus? And if so, which? 40:18
• Follow up:
o Anti-Semitism 45:25
o Zohar 51:04
o Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students 58:59
• Chassidus question: What does Chassidus contribute to the understanding of Mattan Torah? 1:00:06
• My Life 2019 essay contest winners:
o במקום לְהִתְקַשֵׁ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ר, אולי פשוט נְתַקְשֵׁר, Mushka Malka Dekel, 18, Yokneam, Israel 1:07:33
o ‏‏דחף מול דחק, Orya Maimon, 21, Yokneam Illit, Israel 1:09:12
o תוכחה מלב אל לב – מצליחה, Chana Esther Cohen, 18, Ocean City, MD 1:10:15

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