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Ep. 606: What is Chai Elul's Personal Message to Us?
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Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
What is Chai Elul's Personal Message to Us?
- Who revealed to us that this day is the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe?
- Why was it kept secret for many years?
- What is the meaning of the statement that Chai Elul infuses chayus into the entire month of Elul?
- What is the source that the last twelve days of this month correspond to the twelve months of the year? And what is the connection with Chai Elul?
- Why did the Baal Shem Tov sign his name “Yisroel from Okup” when he was born in Tlust?
- What is the story about the Baal Shem Tov’s previous reincarnation?
- What is the significance of the Alter Rebbe being a neshama chadasha? Why does such a neshama need 24 months of gestation?
- Who was Achiya HaShiloni, the teacher of the Baal Shem Tov, and what is their connection?
- What do we know about the thirty-six hidden tzaddikim?
- What were the two last things the Baal Shem Tov heard from his father, and how did that shape him and the philosophy of Chassidus?
- Why was the Baal Shem Tov not arrested for spreading Chassidus like the Alter Rebbe?
- What is the connection with the establishment of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim?
- Do we know why the cornerstone of 770's expansion was laid on the 17th of Elul?
- Why do they say that if you don't believe Baal Shem Tov stories you are an apikores and if you do believe them, you are a fool?
- Did the Baal Shem Tov banish demons from this earth?
- Why did the Frierdiker Rebbe get married on a Friday, as was customary then, but today we don't usually have weddings on a Friday?
- Does the “king in the field” mean that Elul impacts us even if we don’t improve our behavior?
- And does this power exist all year round?
- How do we reconcile the explanation of ani l’dodi v’dodi li with the Frierdiker Rebbe’s interpretation that it refers to businesspeople and scholars?
- How do we justify tragedies in this month of compassion?
- Why are our prayers not being answered?
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