Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives — from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought

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Topics:

• Chassidus Applied to Pesach Sheni and Lag B’Omer
• Lessons from Behar
• As an orthodox Jew teaching in a secular school, how do I navigate and draw the line between insisting kindness and acceptance of all students in our classroom, and normalizing or condoning behavior that is forbidden by Torah?
• Is there a healthy need for ego?
• Can a sociopath do teshuva?
• Does Chassidus ever expect us to sleep less than is normally required?
• Are there any situations when we can shake hands with someone from the opposite gender?
• Follow-up (episode 260): Moustache; Consciousness
• Chassidus question: Please explain the statement that for certain souls, like Rashbi, there was no churban (destruction of the Beis HaMikdash).
• My Life 2019 essay contest winners:
  • Chassidic Lessons on Growing through Trauma, Aharon Zev Moshel, 18, Melbourne, Australia
  • מודל א.ב.א. – התשובה החסידית להפרעות החרדה בעולמנו המודרני, Menachem Mendel Dekel, 22, Yokne-am, Israel
  • אגואיזם – מבעיה אל פתרונה, Levi Wilhelm, 17, Tzfat, Israel