FARBRENGENS
The Rebbe’s Mission: Post Gimmel Tammuz – The Sun Never Sets
In this dense and motivating talk, Rabbi Jacobson addresses the following topics:
1. Gimmel Tammuz: A true shepherd does not forsake his flock. Our mission today: To forge ahead.
2. What is the significance of the Rebbe coming to America on Chof Ches Sivan 80 years ago?
3. The Alter Rebbe finds a mistake on the map of America.
4. The main thing is that when we should not make a mistake when we come to America.
5. Aligning America — the lower hemisphere — with the Torah map
6. How do we overcome our post Gimmel Tammuz doubts and crisis of faith?
7. R’ Shmuel Munkes: If you’re a Rebbe, you have nothing to worry about, and if not…
8. is the Rebbe real only when we see him?
9. What we learn from beer hunters
10. Why was the Rebbe so demanding? Did he show appreciation for our work?
11. The fellow davening in middle of the Rebbe’s farbrengen: The Rebbe’s compassion
12. The Rebbe’s reply about the typos in a sicha we presented
13. The Rebbe meets you half way — based on your efforts
14. What bothers the Rebbe most? Asking for petty things when you can ask for the greatest things
15. Peace of mind knowing that some questions cannot be answered
16. Paradigm shift: The Rebbe’s unprecedented statement that we finished the birurim process
17. Jews today are spread worldwide, allowing the refinement of every part of the universe
18. Are he non-Jews ready for the Geulah?
19. Will anyone die before the Geulah?
20. The changed status of the non-Jews today
21. “Do all you can” — who is ready to present an accounting to the Rebbe?
22. We don’t ask why, but what we can do about it
23. Gimmel Tammuz: A day of accountability. Do something you never have done before
24. What drove me to write Toward a Meaningful Life? The story behind the book
25. Planting seeds: Do whatever you have to do. The rest will follow
26. The war against apathy
27. The Rebbe never went on vacation
28. The challenge of freedom
29. Kovetz Chof Ches Sivan — distributed by the Rebbe 30 years ago
30. The Frierdiker Rebbe’s passionate words upon coming to America
31. The Rebbe: Relentless and unwavering like the waves of an ocean
32. If not us, who?
33. We control the Rebbe’s eternal impact
34. We were blessed to be the Rebbe’s ambassadors, to be soul doctors
35. Explaining Chassidus in relevant and applicable terms
36. Moshiach in simple English
37. A world saturated with the Divine: The very nature of the world will tell you what is right and wrong
38. Seeing the world through the Geulah lens of the Rebbe
39: The world will be preoccupied with knowing the Divine: Seeing the Alef of G-dliness in everything we do
40. Dry cleaners as a lesson in the renewal of a soul
41. Medicine of the future: Elimination of disease and death as an aberration. Understanding the Divine in human anatomy and biology
42. We have a job to do. it’s up to us