Ep. 545: How Should We Respond to the Latest Tragic Washington Murders?

MyLife: Chassidus Applied

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
How should we respond to the latest tragic Washington murders?

• Where is Hashem in all of this?
• Is there something we can do?
• Should we stop displaying our Jewish identity, not go to shul, remove Jewish symbols?

• Why do we read this Torah chapter before Shavuos?
• Who owns the Torah? Can anyone claim royalties?
• What personal and global lessons does it offer us for our times?

• What is the personal significance of this holiday?
• What is the Torah, and why is the giving of the Torah such a monumental event?
• What is the deeper meaning of so many seemingly trivial details in the Torah?
• Why is it important for everyone to go to shul on Shavuos to hear the Ten Commandments if we have already heard them in previous years?
• If the “entire Torah” is about loving another, why do we see many Torah observant people who are not loving?
• Does the “entire Torah” include the inner dimension of Torah?
• Why do the Ten Commandments begin with describing G-d as taking us out of Egypt and not as Creator? And why not G-d that will bring the final redemption?
• What does Anochi signify?
• Why were spouses commanded not to be intimate before Mattan Torah? Isn’t intimacy a sacred act?
• Why do we dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah and not on Shavuos?
• Why do we celebrate receiving the Torah when we didn't even have a chance to read it yet?
• Is there a Maamar Chassidus on the book of Ruth that you would suggest we study?