Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
TISHREI
What is the significance of this month?
ROSH HASHANA
How do I personalize Rosh Hashana?
Why is there no special commemoration of Elul 25, when the world was created?
Why do some people have the custom to visit cemeteries Erev Rosh Hashana?
If we can narrow it down, what is the single most important thing we need to do on Rosh Hashana?
What is the book of life and how do we get inscribed (with a “full page ad”) in it?
Why do we dip an apple in honey?
Is it better to make good resolutions that are small but easily achievable, or larger and more difficult ones?
Is it appropriate to resolve to transgress and then refrain from doing so?
Why can’t Rosh Hashana be on a Friday when the first Rosh Hashana was a Friday?
Why don’t we sound the Shofar on Shabbos? How does Shabbos spiritually accomplish the same thing that blowing the shofar accomplishes?
Has anyone yet come up with an acronym for the new year tof shin pey daled?
TEN DAYS OF TESHUVA
What is the significance of these days and how do I personalize them?
YOM KIPPUR
How do I personalize Yom Kippur?
Why does Yom Kippur come after Rosh Hashana?
Why did the Rebbe dance on a chair during Napolean's March?
YOM KIPPUR TO SUKKOS
What is the significance of the four-day transition from Yom Kippur to Sukkos?
Why is Sukkos such a joyous holiday?
Is it related to Yom Kippur?
How do I personalize Simchas Torah?
HOLIDAYS
How does Chassidus explain the spiritual energy of all the high holidays and why they all come together at the beginning of the year?
Is it called the high holidays because our prayers can travel higher than normal during these holidays
Is there a limit how far our prayers can travel through the spiritual worlds? Can our prayers reach the essence of G-d?
SUKKOS
Why is Sukkos not in the Spring after Pesach?
Are those that sleep in a Sukkah doing anything wrong?
Hakhel: If G-d enjoys us gathering together, why do we only do it in a Hakhel year?
Follow-up: How to resolve a disagreement between spouses whether to hang a picture of a secular hero near the picture of the Rebbe?
Ep. 459: What Personal Lessons in Growth and Recovery Does Shabbos Nachamu Offer Us?
Ep. 458: How to Deal With a Spouse’s Zealotry?
Ep. 457: Is There More Hope Than the Usual Despair for a Narcissist Who Is Jewish? Frum? A Chassid?
Ep. 456: Is It Better to Be Another Member of a Chassidic Community or Live Out of Town Where You Can Be a Leader?
Ep. 455: What Lessons Can We Learn From the Tragic Implosion
Ep. 454: 29 Years From Gimmel Tammuz! How Much Longer?
Ep. 453: What Lessons Can We Learn From the Intense Smoke Recently Engulfing the East Coast?
Ep. 452: Should Pictures of Women to Be Published in Religious Publications?
Ep. 451: How Do We Address an Issue Without Personalizing It?
Ep. 450: Was the Rebbe Loving?
Ep. 449: How Should I Deal With a Daughter Who Hasn’t Spoken With Me for Years?
Ep. 448: Why Is Lag B’Omer an Auspicious Time for Parents and Children to Reconnect?
Ep. 447: Do We Always Have a Second Chance? Is There Hope After We Have Been Deeply Wounded?
Ep. 446: What Is the Significance of Tiferes She’Btiferes and L’Chatchila Ariber?
Ep. 445: What Should We Do to Honor Chof Ches Nissan?
Ep. 444: Best Response to the Recent Discord in Israel? Invite a Jew You Disagree With to Your Seder
Ep. 443: How Should We Deal With Our Child Who Wants to Marry Someone More Modern?
Ep. 442: How Should We Address the Recent Controversy Around Women Becoming “Halachik Advisors”?
Ep. 441: How to Resolve Differences Between Spouses?
Ep. 440: How Do We Perform the Requirement to Drink on Purim? What Is the Torah/Chassidus View on Plant Medicine and Psychedelics?
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