Ep. 509: What Can We Do to Wake Up People Who Have Been Brainwashed by a False Narrative?

MyLife: Chassidus Applied

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
What does the 15th of Av teach us today?

• How does the cycle from destruction to rebuilding help us navigate the extremes in our times?
• Why is this day such a great holiday, comparable to Yom Kippur?
• How do we reconcile the great holiday of the 15th of Av with the rule that we must diminish in joy when the month of Av arrives?
• Why did we break the axes on this day, and not just put them away to be used the next year?
• I don’t see the Beis Hamikdash on Shabbos Chazon. What am I doing wrong?
• Who will build the Third Temple?

• How is this parsha connected to Moshiach?
• Why is the time before Moshiach called “ikvesa d’meshicha”?

• Should we be concerned that our lack of unity may negatively impact today’s events?
• What can we do to increase unity?
• How can we help steer Muslim fundamentalists to change course and live peacefully with their neighbors, as the Christians ultimately learned to do after centuries of aggression?
• Before Moshiach’s coming do we need to endure difficulties?
• What can we do to wake up people who have been brainwashed by a false alternative narrative?
• Can we use recent events – the recent plot to attack a popular music concert; Iran’s ludicrous accusations against Israel – to help bring clarity to those that have been indoctrinated?

• Why don’t you endorse a political party? Follow-up
• If Moshiach comes now will there still be a presidential election?

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