Ep. 261: Does Chassidus Ever Expect Us to Sleep Less Than Is Normally Required?

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 Pesach Sheni and Lag B’Omer 0:10
• Lessons from Behar 12:30
• As an orthodox Jew teaching in a secular school, how do I navigate and draw the line between insisting kindness and acceptance of all students in our classroom, and normalizing or condoning behavior that is forbidden by Torah? 17:50
• Is there a healthy need for ego? 26:30
• Can a sociopath do teshuva? 31:45
• Does Chassidus ever expect us to sleep less than is normally required? 37:30
• Are there any situations when we can shake hands with someone from the opposite gender? 45:10
• Follow-up (episode 260): Moustache; Consciousness 51:33
• Chassidus question: Please explain the statement that for certain souls, like Rashbi, there was no churban (destruction of the Beis HaMikdash). 54:50
• My Life 2019 essay contest winners:
o Chassidic Lessons on Growing through Trauma, Aharon Zev Moshel, 18, Melbourne, Australia 1:00:45
o מודל א.ב.א. – התשובה החסידית להפרעות החרדה בעולמנו המודרני, Menachem Mendel Dekel, 22, Yokne-am, Israel 1:02:32
o אגואיזם – מבעיה אל פתרונה, Levi Wilhelm, 17, Tzfat, Israel 1:04:42

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