Ep. 575:What Can Be Done About “Discrimination” Against Ba’alei Teshuva or Others Seen as Outsiders?

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
 Chof Teves 

• What is the significance of the Rambam’s yahrzeit?  
• What makes a leader different than a scholar?
• What does the Egyptian exile teach us about dealing with difficulties? 
• What did the Rebbe say about this day? 
• What did he have in common with the Alter Rebbe? 

• What personal lessons do we learn from living with the times, with this week’s Torah parsha? 
• Why do we recount the suffering in Egypt?
• What does the story of Moshe’s birth teach us?  
• What is the significance of him being born before the enslavement began and that he himself was not a slave? 
• Why did Hashem appear to Moshe in a burning bush? 
• Why did Moshe challenge G-d by saying “Why are You doing evil to these people?” 
• After the Egyptian exile and redemption why was there a need for other exiles? 
• How can we understand the tzimtzum in simple and practical terms? 

• What does “Yaakov Avinu lo mes” mean? 

• Is there a plan to print more Chassidus in English? 

Shemos Vayechi Are there any relevant lessons to be learned from the United States toppling the Venezuelan president? 
Hei Teves What can be done about "discrimination" against Ba'alei Teshuva or others seen as outsiders? 
If I feel that my teacher is not being fair, how can I challenge him without being disrespectful?