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 Rosh Chodesh Kislev: 40 Years
• Lessons from the Kinnus HaShluchim
• How to live with Parshas Vayeitzei
• What message does Thanksgiving have for us?
• What is the line between healthy pride and arrogance?
• Do we always have to forgive?
• Was the Maharal’s Golem a myth?
• Follow-up and feedback:
  • Are our prayers always answered? (episode 188)
  • Shidduchim crisis (episodes 169-171)
  • Sexual harassment
• Chassidus Question: How do we reconcile the fact that King David instructed Shlomo to avenge his honor by killing Shimi with the Alter Rebbe’s explanation (in Iggeret Hakodesh 25) that King David controlled his anger and did not respond to Shimi who cursed him?
• MyLife Essays: Making Time Count, by אוריה צור, 21, Beit Shemesh, Israel; Being of Two Minds: Chassidus and Neuroscience, by Mike Perkins, 61, Columbia, Missouri; Hoarding vs. Letting Go, by Vicky O’Brien, 53, Albany NY

MyLife: 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.