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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THIS WEEK'S TOPICS:
• Chassidus Applied to 7 Adar, Terumah and Zachor 
      o How are you empowered by the Moshe within? 
      o How to turn your life and home into a holy sanctuary? 
      o What can we do to eradicate apathy and doubts? 
• How does Chassidus view the relationship between spiritual/emotional health and physical health? 
• Does ambition have a purpose according to Chassidus? Or is it better to be without ambition completely? 
• What is the best way to daven that Hashem puts you in the right place at the right time to meet your bashert? 
• Non-Jews 
      o What is the difference between psyche and soul from a Chassidic perspective, and how are they different by Jews and non-Jews? 
      o Are non-Jews obligated to have bitachon? 
      o How do I talk to my non-Jewish patients about G-d and the purpose of life? What topics and ideas in Chassidus can I share with them? 
      o Is one allowed to listen to non-Jewish explanations of the Torah? 
• How are we to understand the idea of Jews as the “chosen people”? 
• Follow-up: Effort 
• Chassidus question: What is Tanya’s realistic expectation of us? Are we expected to be perfect or accountable? Is the Tanya's beinoni a real person or just a theoretical model of the ideal non-tzaddik? 
• MyLife 2020 Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest: 15th Place winners: 
      o Essay English: The Power of Imagery, Yehuda Shmotkin, 35, Shliach, Chabad of Hamilton Heights and City College, New York, NY 
      o Essay Hebrew (men): התמודדות עם עצלות וכבדות מהתניא, Benayahu Yankovitch, Jerusalem, Israel 
      o Essay Hebrew (women): רכישת אסרטיביות מתוך ספר התניא, Mrs. Rivkah Yankovitch, Jerusalem, Israel 
      o Creative: The Anatomy According to Chassidus (sketchbook), Chaya Youngworth, 18, Student, Torah Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa 

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