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:

• Yud Gimmel Tishrei: 135 Years
• What is the significance of Simchas Beis HaShoaivah today?
• Chassidus Applied to Simchas Torah
• Is Simchat Torah only for men?
• Is it OK to celebrate with the feeling of the Rebbe as Moshiach?
• Was the Rebbe’s prophecy about Moshiach unfulfilled?
• How is it fine that some leaders in Tanach married non-Jews?
• Follow-up:
  • Baal Teshuva story (episode 180)
  • Sleeping in a Sukkah (episode 182)
• Chassidus Question: Why is the dancing of Simchas Torah called hakofot (circles)? Why do we circle the bimah and dance in a circle?
• MyLife Essays: Escaping by Connecting, by Manny Shollar; To Live or To Leave? by Joyce A. Isaacson; To Manifest Redemption in the Face of Despair, by Linda Miriam Aziz-Zadehe: Chassidus Applied is a series of video webcasts answering questions from the public, with the objective of demonstrating how Chassidus provides us with a comprehensive blueprint of the human psyche as a microcosm of the cosmos, and offers us all the guidance we need to live the healthiest possible life and build nurturing homes and families, bringing up the healthiest possible children, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.