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:

• Rambam study: End of 37th cycle (Elul 20) and beginning of 38th (Elul 21)
• Chassidus Applied to the 25th of Elul and Rosh Hashana
• Lessons from the last and 7th Week of the Shiva D’Nechemta
• Standing in the month of Elul when we increase in prayer, what can we practically do to pray a bit better?
• Should I be concerned about speaking loshon hora when I am working through with my mentor the hurt I have experienced at the hands of another?
• For the sake of sholom bayis should I do something my spouse prefers that I would normally refrain from doing?
• Does the Torah expect the same from people regardless of their vital childhood experience?
• Is there any value in rigidly doing mitzvot by rote even if it does not refine me and help me personally grow?
• Follow-up: Religious OCD (episode 227)
• Chassidus question: What does it mean that we need to stimulate G-d’s desire to recreate existence on Rosh Hashana? If we did nothing would the world cease to be?
• My Life 2018 essays:
  • Overcoming Insecurity, Avraham Stein, 18, Stony Brook
  • How to Actually Bring Moshiach, Chana Rahmani, Boston, MA
  • My Torah, Chaim E. Bryski, 24, Agoura Hills, CA