How Do We Honor Chof Av? Why Did the Rebbe’s Father Have to Endure Such Excessive Suffering? What Should Be Our Focus During These Days? What Was Unique About Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s Teaching Style? What Is the Meaning of the Blessings and Curses in the Torah? How Do We Create a Vessel for Blessings? What Can We Do to Remove Blockages From Receiving Blessings? How Can the Torah Help Us Identify Charlatans and Scammers?

MyLife: Chassidus Applied Episode 602 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson

Sunday, August 2, 2026 / 19 Menachem Av 5786 – 8:00-9:00PM ET

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The topics in this week’s 602nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include:

What should be our focus during these days?

· Why do we begin blessing each other with wishes for a good year on the 15th of Av?

· Why is it written that there were no holidays like the 15th of Av in the past tense?

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· What is the relevance of this day?

· What is the significance of this day coming 40 days before Rosh Hashana?

· Why did the Rebbe’s father have to endure such excessive suffering?

· Can it be explained by the idea that, to grow to an unprecedented higher level, one needs to nullify previous levels entirely?

· What was unique about Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s teaching style?

· How would you describe what it adds to Chabad Chassidus in general?

· Are his writings Chassidishe Chassidus or Rebbe’she Chassidus?

· Can you give us an example of some of his teachings?

· How can we honor the Rebbe’s father?

· Who is in charge of publishing Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s teachings?

· What is the connection of Reb Levi Yitzchak to the month of Av?

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· What lessons do we learn from living with the times, with this week’s Torah parsha?

· What is the meaning of the blessings and curses in the Torah?

· What is the proper way to bless someone?

· Is there a source that on a birthday one has a special power to bless others?

· How do we create a vessel for blessings?

· What can we do to remove blockages from receiving blessings?

· How do we transform a curse into a blessing?

· If curses are really hidden blessings, why do we need revealed blessings?

· Why does the Midrash connect the blessings and curses to the physical topography of the mountains associated with them?

· What can we learn from the Torah’s way of recognizing a true and false prophet to help us identify charlatans and scammers today?

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