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 Chanukah 0:45
• What was the dispute between the Jews and the Greeks? 4:41
• How do we explain the victory of Chanukah when in the end Greek secularism seems to have prevailed in modern times? 11:42
• What is the halachik and hashkafic explanation for public menorahs? 17:53
• Lessons from Miketz 25:41
• How do we explain the seemingly unacceptable behavior of the tribes? 28:51
• If you don’t like someone, is it better to be two-faced and speak nicely to the person, or behave like the tribes who couldn’t speak to Yosef?  34:34
• Since the purpose of Chassidus is to apply it to our lives, why was there a “kitrug” to prevent this? 39:51
• Why don’t we follow the Alter Rebbe’s directive to recite psalm 119 weekly? 43:58
• Follow up (episode 284-286):  
     o Rochel and Leah 46:29
     o Marriage 54:02
• Chassidus question: What is the concept of olives according to Chassidus? 55:55
• My Life 2019 essays:
     o I’ll Do It Later, Shmuly Katzoff, 16, Brooklyn, NY 01:02:44
     o Separateness That Leads to Closeness, Levi Berger, Bal Harbour, FL 01:03:52
     o The Three Tricks in a Chassid’s Basket, Ben Diamond, 34 01:05:06

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